Photo retouching and Becci Mansion

5A) Photo retouching 

Photo from sand creek photo blog

BEFORE

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Photo #2- Found on internet 

BEFORE

AFTER 

                                        

Reflection: 
Through out this project it was a lot of trial and error. What worked well was using the tools from learning how to do it on the video and translating that to doing it. The most challenging part was when using the healing brush tool was making sure that what i wanted to change matched up with what i was changing it too. Next time what i would do differently is try to not need to be perfectionist about it but still retouch it to the best of my abilities. I used two main tools, the spot healing brush tool and the healing brush tool. The spot healing brush tool i would just go over a spot that didn't belong there and click on it and it would disappear. With the more serious damage i would use the healing brush tool. Generally I would select close to that spot or mark that was around the same color and go over the spot or mark and it would turn it the same tone and color that i had selected, making it look as though the mark was never there. I am not sure how I would use this beyond the classroom. 


                                           5B) Becci Mansion 
Why did Becci Mansion start this project?
- She created this project to restore the memories for the people who thought that they were gone forever when the earthquake hit Japan in 2011, she would then return the photos to their owners after the photos had been restored.

How did she organize people to help the cause?
-  She reached out on Facebook. When more people were needed she reached out on Facebook once again and also Linked in. Within 5 days 80 people wanted to help from 12 different countries. withing two weeks she had 150 people. Once a week they would set up scanners in temporary photo libraries where people would claim their photos. A local woman guided them in how to clean the photos in order to even upload them because the photos could have had oil and such on it and needed to be cleaned and cried and claimed. 

How can you use your photo skills to help people you know?
- My mom is a professional photography and i love to help her capture the moments in peoples life's, the joy and the love in peoples faces and them being able to see how we see them is amazing. We are able to pause time and steal that moment and have it forever and to me that is what is awesome about taking photos. If someone asked me to restore a photo from their childhood, I know can and give them that keepsake forever again. 

Is her work important? Why or why not?
- I think her work is important. These people had gone through a disaster and they didn't have time to grab photos they had time to grab their loved ones and get to safety. When this photos were found and brought in they were in such bad condition and their owners didn't know if they could have those keepsakes ever again. But Becci devoted her time and recruited so many others to restoring those memories and giving something back to those people when they may have nothing left. 

POP ART

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      Reflection
               While doing this project there were many steps that needed to be followed, some more difficult than others. What worked well was getting the right colors and making it look well done. also using the liquefy tool to add movement and contrast that turned easy to accomplish. The most challenging aspect of this project was making it look good, meaning using the three photos to create art and making it look like pop art. Next time I would probably arrange the photos in a more structured way to make the photo more appealing to the eyes. I used many tools to complete this project. I had to start by cutting out background from each of the three separate pictures, for each one I used the magic wand tool to cut out just myself and then I copied that piece to a new page. after completing this I opened a new document in photo shop and started by pasting one. With this one photo I began to edit it. I used the gradient tool to add color and texture to the image and then I copied the image 5 time and set them in a row. This image was repeated in the background which then I used the blend tool and clone stamp tool to create a movement effect. Then I used the gradient tool again to create a background with colorful circles and light.  Then I moved to the next picture, with this one I copied it 6 times and then used gradient to change the colors and finally used the liquify tool to create swirls. The last image that I used was only copied three times and used in between the second image. I changed the gradient and used the liquify tool to create a sense of movement. I can use these tools and what I have learned to create more art like this and master the gradient tool.

Face Swap

FACE SWAP PROJECT

 

 

 

Reflection.
While doing this project I had many obstacles but also many things that were easy to do. The easy part was getting the faces copied and ready to transfer, it just took time and patience  to make sure that I didn't get anything but their faces. The most challenging part of this project for me was trying to get the faces to line up and look as natural as swapped faces can be. Next time I will learn how to get the faces to look normal and maybe pick a couple with similar skin tones so it will match up better. I used the clone stamp tool. I did this by selecting an area of the face from the layer that is called background copy and then I moved to a blank layer and began to copy the face by moving around in a circular motion until the face was copied in another area of the picture. I did this again for the other face but on a new layer but still using the clone stamp tool copied from the background copy. Then i used the selection tool to move the faces on each of their layers and to help shape it over the original face so that the original was covered completely (or as good as it could be.) I could use the clone stamp tool to cover over some blemishes on photos that I take on my own time.