Vector Shapes and Typography

When I first started working on this image, it gave me all sorts of fits. The original image contained a very nasty blue cast across the entire image. Normally this would not be an issue, however, this cast was present in both the snow on the mountain, which needed it's blue mid tones reduced, as well as the sky, which needed it's blue mid tones increased. I ended up cutting out the mountain, and color correcting the sky and the mountain individually. The text is semi-transparent to keep it light, and embossed to help it 'pop out' of the like-colored clouds behind.

Color Schemes

This image is composed of three photos. The first is of a spring meadow in Scotland, the second is the winter scene, and the last is the apple in the foreground. Working on this image originally gave me some fits, trying to figure out how to smoothly blend the two images. After unsuccessfully trying different techniques at gradients (I was able to get an image to fade to a solid color, but not to transparency), I used the eraser tool to do a rough and dirty blending, using several passes at low opacity. The green field, snow drift, and apple where color corrected to match as best as I could do, although the grass and trees in the field are far from perfect. After using all the color correction options discussed in the book, I felt that what is in the image is actually the best possible correction, for the tools that we have covered thus far.

Borders and Text, Part 1

For this image, I took a picture of a sunset, and set an office building and car (lower right) on top of it. The building and car layers were cut using the magnetic lasso tool, and were color corrected to match the light cast from the sunset. There is also a black border around the backdrop, which is partially transparent to let some of the colors from the sunset ‘bleed’ into it.

Duotones

This image is a composite of a rocky beach, with a dinosaur skull as the focus. There are three layers of the beach image, with two of them slightly offset and softened with a Gaussian Blur . The third was used for the background, with a much more radical blur to rid it of detail.