Learn to Love Layers - Week 3

Photo Edge with Filter




Photo Edge With Brush (SS Frames - Frame 1)

Displacement Map

I did this in another lesson, but I'm running out of time - hope you don't mind.

Grandson Chester getting his Eagle Scout Award

Learn to Love Layers - Week 2

Blended Layers

WWII Memorial - Washington DC

General George C. Marshall's Statement

US Flag and Marshall's Statement blended

Zion's Park Outing

Learn to Love Layers - Week 1

This week, among other things, we put two photos in one image.

Photo 1 - Adam and Kurtis

Photo 2 - Shanna

Combined in one image

Photo Retouching and Restauration - Week 2

This week we learned about removing color cast - using healing tool - adding a border. Following are two pictures I worked on - the before and after views

I'm definitely not satisfied with this picture, and hope that in the lessons to come I will learn how to improve. It is a scan from a slide.

Photo Retouching & Restoration - Week 1

I used the clone tool and healing brush on the image to fix background and numerous spots. I tried to tint the image, but never got anything to look good. (I'm not a fan of tinted images, I'm afraid) - so I ended up with a sepia colored photo.

before

after

The following photo is all faded. I used Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels. Used the healing brush to get rid of some really bad spots.

before



after

Pizzazz Week 3

Homework for this lesson was to post a glass sphere:


and a displacement map:

Pizzazz - Week 6

Linge River - Holland

In the Fog

Pizzazz - Week 5

I took this picture of the Great Falls of the Potomac last week. I had to seriously reduce the picture so that I could see the effect of the diffuse filter. It still isn't very noticeable.

Original

Diffused

Original - Barrel Cactus Blooms

Stained Glass Filter

Cactus Bloom Original

Extruded - 2 - 100 - level based

Pizzazz - Week 4

Doing this cube was fun, but it took a lot of resizing of photos. I never could get Sarah's picture how I wanted it to be, so all you see now are her eyes. Oh well.

Woodcut of Civil War Cannon

Pizzaz Week 2

Following are some more artistic filter effects - with the originals posted first

Painting on Canvas

Plastic Wrap

Poster Edges

Neon Glow

Pizzaz Week 1

In this lesson we touched on several filters that come with the PSE7 program. The first two pictures show the before and after of using the Equalize filter. I selected part of the picture, and then the entire image was equalized based on the light and dark pixels in the selected area.

before

after

In the following pictures the sky was separated from the rest of the image and then both images were corrected separately.

before


after

There's a nifty filter called "Correct Camera Distortion" :

before



after

The blur filter is used in the next 2 pictures:

zoom blur

radial blur

The next filter was the Gaussian Blur, which is nice for softening an image:

Gwyn - before

Gwyn - after

I used the rough pastel filter on the flower arrangement: