Activity 10

   For this photograph  my main focus was his face and hair. I believe that is what is seen first in a person. To remove most of his wrinkles i used the blur tool. I also used the clone tool by using the option key. I used the clone tool quite a lot for this. I used it for a majority of his hair and to close up his buttoned down shirt. The less skin, the better. I also used the burn tool to eve out his hair and make it darker. Finally, i went to image>adjustments>curve and fixed the colors. By making it lighter, it made his face brighter and knocked off at least 20 years!

For this part of the activity, we had to turn a over weight person skinny. My main tool was the eraser tool. I literally just minimized most of her with the eraser and just removed calories by the thousands. The second tool i used was the free transform tool. I mostly just minimized the scale and put her on a slant so the main focus isn't on her body. I also urned out her jeans completely. The jeans were ugly and darker colors are always more complimenting anyway. Finally i increased the contrast and gave her some color! Jessica should be appreciative ;)

For my final part, i had to turn Kate Moss into a big lady! I started off by working on her face, i used filter>liquify and gave her the heavier effect. For her body, i went to edit>transform>wrap. I selected her body only with the lasso tool and stretched her out. Then i wen to edit>transform>scale and maximized her from the sides and made her shorter. Finally, i went to image>adjustments>curve and fixed the color to make the quality of the picture a lot better. She wouldn't be my biggest fan after seeing this photograph

Activity 9

                                               Jason McGeenald. 
For this activity i embedded quite a lot of different elements and layers to it. I started with a base of a hawks head, copy & pasted it again but flipped it to be horizontal and gave it the double head effect. Then i used the magic wand for the mouses body and replaced its ands for gorilla hands. To make it look as real as possible i used the blur tool and went to image<adjustment>curves to give it a base color. I also added a squirrels tail and an elephants trunk. Then i embedded all the layers together and turned it in to a JPEG. After choosing a background that fits a possible habitat of the animal, i copy and pasted Jason McGeenald twice and changed the opacity to a very low level. I thought this gave it a better look overall. 

Activity 8

         

Shallow Depth of Field 

  

With these two works, i made sure to show high contrast. By changing and decreasing the opacity of the background, i put the most focus on mirror which also corresponds to the framing that i needed to do. As for the second picture, i created the contrast by defining and making the colors more intense. I also change the opacity of the soccer ball and making it transparent. 

Activity 7

For my portrait i decided to use the beautiful Nick Zano. I started off with a background of a sun set. By using the blur box, I blurred out the picture to the point to where you can't really make out what it actually is, you just get the positive effect. The i started a new layer of Nick Zano's portrait. I cut him out using the lasso tool. After that, i went to filter> Texture > halftone pattern. Then to add more contrast, i went to image> adjustments> contrast. I feel i got the full effect out of his portrait. :)