Photoshopped Images: Before and After
An original image of a mansion that resembles an English cottage, located in Forest Hills Garden neighborhood.
I wanted to create a vintage looking horror image inspired by the early "ghost" photographs shown in class last week. It's also inspired by a book titled This Spectred Isle by Simon Marsden, which talks about the most haunted locations in England. I layered black & white with sephia then added insane amount of grains. I also bumped the blue values all the way up. Then, I added a little something extra behind one of the windows. I used the burn tool to make the sky dark and ominous. I purposely didn't want to let the burn tool touch the roof to give the house an eerie glow (which is inspired by the Simon Marsden book).
The cropped version of the photoshopped image.
An original image of a Barbie doll close up.
Taking cues from the doll's dress, I decided to "turn" it into a poster for an Anna Karenina play with a slightly modern twist. The black & white halftone part represents her pretentious life with Karenin which she left behind. The full color, mozaic part represents her more exciting and passionate life with Vronsky which ultimately ends in tragedy as she figuratively and literally falls apart.
An original image of a tree lined street with my mom walking on the sidewalk.
I selected her using lasso tool then I inversed it. Then I turned the rest black & white while keeping her full color. Afterwards, I gave it a faint yellow tint and played around with the color values.
An original image of branches shot during an overcast morning.
Unfortunately, I don't remember which filter I used to make the branches look thicker. If I'm not mistaken, it was under the Artistic set of filters. I also turned into black & white and gave it an orange-y tint. You could some artifacts around the edges but I actually like it. The overall feeling from this shopped image is that it feels more ominous than the original.
An original image of Barbie doll with a mini wooden mannequin portrayed in a clandestine romantic relationship.
First, I fixed the white balance. It's always shocking how a little white balance fix could make an image a million times better as well as giving it a different feel. In the original image, it has a blue-ish hue which somewhat lends a secretive, dark-alley feel to it.
The second one no longer has a secretive feel but a warmer feel instead. I turned the image into a vintage inspired jewelry ad poster. I removed the doll's original earring by using clone stamp tool. Then, I added a diamond chandelier earring and a line of text using art deco font. I tried to add fake sparkle by using lens flare but it doesn't really show. I also tried to give the earring that 'partially hidden in the shadow' look but I wasn't very successful. Instead, I made it look like an earring with mismatched diamonds. So I just abandoned the idea.
The second one no longer has a secretive feel but a warmer feel instead. I turned the image into a vintage inspired jewelry ad poster. I removed the doll's original earring by using clone stamp tool. Then, I added a diamond chandelier earring and a line of text using art deco font. I tried to add fake sparkle by using lens flare but it doesn't really show. I also tried to give the earring that 'partially hidden in the shadow' look but I wasn't very successful. Instead, I made it look like an earring with mismatched diamonds. So I just abandoned the idea.
