Evaluation

I am pleased with my final fantasy landscape because its quite quirky and weird and isnt something someone would expect. I found using photoshop easy and the Lasso tool and blur tools easy to use. It made creating the landscape really easy. Even though sometimes the Lasso tool sometimes missed out parts of the image making it look copied and pasted.
I used a lot of images of my own photographs and I edited all the photographs so the colour was bright and vibrant.
I wish we had more time to do this landscape because i would of used different photographs and would of edited my background a lot more to make it more interesting and the background is plain blue.
Also, I would of spent more time erasing little mistakes to make the photographs look less copied and pasted then they did. And mine does look manipulated.

Apart from that I am pleased with it and I think its quite funny.

My Final Fantasy Landscape

Fantasy Landscape

TO make the fantasy landscape I used the Magnetic Lasso tool to grab objects which I wanted to put on my background. This is how it looks when you have selected an area....

 Then you need to copy and paste the selected area onto your background.

 Then when you have pasted the image onto your background, you can make the selected area different size or orientation.

 You have to make sure these boxes are ticked so you can move the area.

 After that, you can edit the colour of the selected area to the colour of your desire.

Transform

Transform

We import our image into photoshop.

 We double click on the background icon.

 We create a layer.

 We then click Edit --> Transform and can choose from any of these. I used the Warp tool.

 This allows us to straighten up the image by pulling each section.

The final image is straighter.

I like this because you can edit a photograph to make it near perfect without making it look like it has actually been photoshopped.

Adding Text

Adding Text

We import our chosen photo in photoshop.

 We then choose the text button.

 We draw a text box to the size of our choice.

 We choose the text, size, and colour of our text. We then write the text we want.

This is a really simple way of adding text to a photograph.

Cloning

Cloning

Firstly, we add our photograph into photoshop.

We then choose the stamp tool.

 We choose the clone stamp tool.

 We then choose what we want to copy. We hold down ALT and highlight over the area we want to copy.

 We then choose another area and start to copy it onto the area.

 When we have done this, a duplicate of what we highlighted will show up.

I quite like this but its hard to not include the background too so in some photographs you can tell the background has changed.

Colour Adding

Colour Adding

To add colour we import our image into photoshop and add a layer.

We then select the paint brush tool.

 We then choose the colour we wish to use.

 We then draw over the part of the image that we want to colour in.

 We can choose the thickness and hardness of the paintbrush tool. We have to make sure it is a softedge to the image and colour look blended together.

We then can choose from these settings to get the desired look.

 I chose overlay and this is my final image.

Vignetting - Colour and Black and White

Colour

- Firstly, we add our chosen photograph into photoshop. (Before image)

 We then add another layer by pressing the tool left of the trash bin.

 we click ^

 When we've added a layer, we add a border around the photograph. We do this by pressing the paintbrush icon and choose the brush tool.

We then hold down the SHIFT key and draw a line. By holding down the SHIFT key it keeps the line straight and avoids making squiggly lines.

 This is how the border will look. Using black adds a more dramatic look to the photograph.

 After we've added the blur, we then go Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur.

This pallettes comes up after clicking the Gaussian Blur tool and the Radius setting helps us identify how strong we would like the blur.

This is how the final image comes out. (After)

Black and White

I then did this with a black and white photograph by doing the same process. This is how the black and white picture came out.

 Firstly, we made the photograph black and white by Image --> Adjustments --> Black and White

We then added the border the same way as previous.

This is how the black and white photograph came out.

I prefer the black and white photograph as the contrast in colours makes the photograph look more dramatic. I quite like this way of producing a strong bold border as it creates a nice sharp contrast to the photograph.

Final edited Images

 I like this photograph because the picture of Danie is still really vibrant with the colours and the background is still visible.

 This photograph is nice cause the pictures are vibrant but the background isn't as visible.

This photograph was quite hard to do because the colours clashed so the picture of Jordon is half in the photograph of the rural landscape, and half of Jordons face is near the sky so it looks as if only half of the photographs have blended together.

Experimenting

 To edit these photographs we had to go onto Liquify.

 We then can use two tools, Forward warp tool (the first icon) and the Bloat tool (5th icon)

 This is an over exaggerated use of the warp tool. The forward warp tool creates an effect which can make you extend or decrease the size of something. Such as Jordon's hair here is extended (over exaggerated). When using these tools, the best way to use them is so you look at the photographs without people noticing how much the picture has been edited.

 This is an example of the Bloat tool (over-exaggerated). This makes things magnify and go bigger. These can be used for anything, but sometimes the use of this tool can make things look unreal or edited.

 After we have inputted the edits we then have to import our second image (landscape) but then have to seperate them like this.

 We then choose the select tool.

And drag the second image on top of the first image and then make sure they are the same size.

After that, we can then choose after of this options for the effect of the photograph.