Warhol

This is my try at a Warhol styled ilustration. The subject is a picture I took of a sunken boat at Point Reyes. The subject and background are duplicated and are edited to change to colors of each duplicate. once you have your subject and background, you double the size of the canvas and then duplicate the image with Ctrl+J. You then take this duplicate and change its appearance with the hue slider. Do this two more times and put them in a square pattern.

Music Project

This is an image of my sister playing her guitar. The camera angle helps bring all focus to her playing the instrument. Also, I made everything except her hands in black and white to help this cause. This concentration on her hands communicates that when she plays the guitar, everything else "is in black and white."

Going along with a similar message of the last picture, this image communicates the feeling that when she plays the guitar, the rest of her world is shut out. I chose this style crop because it aids in this feeling. I also blew out the whites to give it more of a dreamy feel.

This image shows my sisters ability to express herself through playing the guitar. I purposely made her face obstructed by the reflections of the plant in the window. Like the first picture, I brought more attention to the player and the instrument by making the rest of the photo in black and white.

This photo of my sister shows her love for her guitar. For the most part, throughout this series, I  purposly excluded her face in the picture. This brings to light the idea that the guitar is a part of her, it can serve as the face to her personality.

Intentional Under Exposure

This is the before picture. Its is messy and, in my opinion, too bright.

This is the under exposed picture. Its is taken at a more extreme angle and is more simplistic. It is also less bright and thus, more attractive. For this specific example, I manually adjusted the exposure by -2.5.

This is the second "before" picture. Like the first image, it is messy and too bright.

This is the after picture. It is under exposed and much more simple. For this example, the exposure is stepped down by -3.0.

Text Tutorial

In order to complete this tutorial, you first start off with a new layer. In this layer, you will create the background gradient. To do this, you use the gradient tool to create a mash of colors you like. After you have your background, you put text on top of your background. To warp the text, you select the warp tool next to the color selection of your text layer. Then you can warp it however you like. Next, you can use the "fx" tab to further edit the word. In this example, I used shadow, outer glow, stroke, bevel and emboss, and pattern overlay.