Photoshop Reflection

Camille

(Photoshop)

            My main image was the unaltered photo of my friend wearing the red sunglasses. I duplicated the background layer. The first Photoshop technique I did was “copy & paste.” I opened up a second window with a picture of my two friends walking up from Russell. I duplicated the background, and using the magic wand tool and the eraser, I got rid of the background and isolated the image of McKenna and Leslie. I then dragged that image into the main window. The size was already proportional to the rest of the shot, so all I had to do was blur the newly copied and pasted image with the blur tool. Doing so helped it look more a part of the original background.

            The next technique I did was “fisheye.” I flattened the image and duplicated the background layer. Using the elliptical marquee tool, I selected Camille’s face. I clicked on “Select” on the tool bar at the top and hit “Inverse”. I hit delete and was left with the image of Camille’s face. I reversed my selection by hitting “Inverse” again so that instead of the deleted background, Camille’s face was selected. Under “Filter” I went to “Distort” and selected “Spherize”. Making sure that the effect was 100%, I hit OK and was left with this beauteous creature.

            Before the next technique, I flattened the image and duplicated the background layer again. I then did “threshold” on Camille’s red sunglasses. For this technique, I used the magic wand and the eraser to rid the sunglasses of its background in the duplicate layer. (I hid the original background layer so that it would be easier to work with the image.) With the sunglasses against a plain background, I made nine more copies of that layer. On the last layer, I went up to “Image,” “Adjustments,” and selected “Threshold”. I selected 25. I repeated this step for the subsequent nine layers and made the threshold darker by going up by increments of 25 each time. After choosing red as my color, I returned to the top layer and hid all the other layers. Using the magic wand tool and making sure that “Contiguous” was unchecked, I selected the white of the sunglasses and hit delete. I then chose the darkest red, pressed “Ctrl,” clicked on the image icon on the right-hand side, and hit delete. What this did was replaced the black of the sunglasses with the darkest red chosen. I then hid this layer and made the next one visible. I repeated this step for the other nine layers, choosing a lighter red each time. By the time I got to the last layer, the red was nothing more than a marshmallow pink. I flattened the image and duplicated the background layer once again—only this time, the red sunglasses had that “threshold” effect to it.

            The next and final Photoshop technique used was “blending” images. I pulled up a second image of a napkin with the word “love” written on the corner in another window. I made sure that the two images were of the same size. I went to the window of my main image (the already manipulated one of Camille) and went up to “Image” and selected “Apply Image”. I made sure that under “Source”, the second image of the napkin was selected. I then selected “Hard light” as the effect and was left with the final product.

            I flattened the image and saved it. In conclusion, I copied and pasted McKenna and Leslie into the background and blurred them in, I blessed Camille’s face with a 100% fisheye effect, I used threshold on her red sunglasses, and I blended an image of a vandalized napkin onto the manipulated target image. The End J