Masking

The first picture where masking was used is seen in the two pictures below. I basically utilized masks to take the original picture and make it nighttime. I created a mask over the original photo in the above portion and made it transparent and then selected the water and utilized a mask to give it a light gradient to give the impression that there was a reflection of nighttime. I then utilized the blur tool to subtly darken portions of the photograph including the rock and the trees. 

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The second picture where masking was used is seen in the two pictures below. I utilized a mask after selection to place an american flag in the background of a picture of me to simulate a picture that a presidential candidate might take. 

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Color Adjustment

The first picture I color-corrected was a huge crab claw that I had taken a picture of before...

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I mainly used the histogram for this one and noticed that there is a slight reddish hue in the original picture. I then adjusted it. 

The next is a picture of a tcnj building that I took a picture of...

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This picture originally had a very dark look to it because of the way that the shadows were distributed. I simply took this picture and adjusted some of the shadows and it looks much brighter and more vibrant. 

 The third picture is a picture I took with my girlfriend in Connecticut under a lot of light.

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This picture originally had very unevenly distributed shadows and I simply took this picture and adjusted some of the shadows and it looks much brighter and more vibrant. 

Image Composition Project 2

The three pictures for the image composition project (2) is below. 

The first picture is of an explosion happening in the background of a football field. I achieved this by selecting the background of the football field utilizing the magic wand and the quick select, and then making it transparent. I then moved the picture of the explosion in the background behind the original football field picture. 

The second picture is of patrick from spongebob being surprised by US military members. This type of photo is actually an internet phenomenon. I basically took a picture of patrick with this face and rotated it so it looked like it was going to be facing the correct way. I then selected that piece of the wall and moved that selection in front of Patrick. so it appeared as if patrick was peeking out from behind the wall. The last finishing touches came when I used the burn tool to simulate patrick's shadows. 

The third picture is a TCNJ last supper. It features TCNJ campus town in the background which was done by selecting the window space and deleting it and then putting the picture of campus town behind it. Also TCNJ is sketched very subtly above Jesus' head which was done by creating text and then utilizing the brush tool to color the text the same color as the wall. 

Image Composition Project

For this project we had to take more than one image and composite them together to make one pictures. We had to make a total of three composites. 

The first composite was made by taking two images from the Image Acquisition Project and compositing them together. I took my face from the selfie that we had to take and got rid of the background and made it so it looked like I was peeking out from the top of the building. To get this effect I had to cut the top piece of the building into a new layer and then put it over all of the others while keeping the layer for the face above the background layer. The finished product and the layering of my images are below. 

The second composite was made by taking two reusable images from the internet (checked for usage rights), getting rid of the background for the one image and compositing them together so it seems that the picture of the sun was already in the image of the planet. The finished product and the layering of my images are below. 

The third composite was made by taking a photo of the two previously made composites in the photoshop window and compiling them together with each image getting smaller every layer so that it seems that there is an infinite amount of them within eachother. I call it Picception. The finished product and the layering of my images are below.