Scanography edge effects

 

July 13, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 1:20 AM, HP Scanner

I used this edge effect on both my 8x10 and 4x6 prints.  I deleted the contents and used white as the color, then used the history brush to paint it back.  I scanned a necklace of mine in a dark room to get good color, and then I used a Pseudo HDR action in Photoshop.

Scanography - Collage

Here is the final blend of all of my images:

And here are the images it took to get the final blend.

July 13, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 12:52 AM, HP Scanner

July 13, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 1:01 AM, HP Scanner

July 13, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 12:55 AM, HP Scanner

I took the pens and used them as my background, then I used the quick select tool and selected each of the objects and moved them into the picture with the pens.  I flipped the pens to be horizontal, and then I used the typing mask tool to write school because all of these things remind me of school.

Scanography - One shot

Pennies - July 12, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 10:58 PM, HP Scanner

I thought it would look cool to arrange pennies on top of my scanner.  However, I ran out of pennies so I cropped the photo.  This one was more of a fun one for me, I liked the way it turned out!

Perfume - July 13, 2010,  Rexburg, Idaho, 10:41 PM, HP Scanner

I placed all of my perfume bottles on top of the scanner to see how it would look scanned.   I wish I had thought of it at night when I had done all of my other scans because the light kind of washed out the color on some of the bottles.  But I still think it looks cool.

Fine Art Template

I went for simplicity on my fine art template.  I chose a white background with a simple font.  It's called Champagne & Limousines and I downloaded it on dafont.com.  
Here is the template on it's own:

Then I added a picture of a rose that I took this weekend:

June 19th 2010, 4:47 PM, F/3.2, 1/100, Logan, Utah, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS

This picture is also artsy so I put it in the template also.

April 27th 2009, 7:28 PM, F/4.1, 1/40, Rexburg, Idaho Casio Ex- Z600

Photolusion

 The Wind is Blowing - June 21st 2010, 8:07 PM, F/4.0, 1/160, Rexburg, Idaho, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS

For this picture I posed my friends far apart from each other.   One I had hold out her hand and the other one I had act crazy.  My camera didn't focus as well as I would have liked but I think the picture turned out pretty good.  I made minimal edits, just doing auto tone, color, and contrast and brightening the picture to 29.

Flower Ring -
June 19th 2010, 1:59 PM, F/9, 1/160, Logan, Utah, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS
I took this lovely photo of a rose outside of my friend's brother's house.

Ring-
June 21st 2010, 9:47 PM, F/3.2, 1/160. Rexburg, Idaho, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS
I really liked the way my ring looked and thought it looked like the inside of a flower.  So I took a picture of it.

To start off I tried to match the color of the flower to my ring.  Then I used the quick select tool and dragged the ring over to the flower, and then sized it and placed it in the middle of the flower.  I then played with the settings to make it so it wasn't so bright and it looked like it had a shadow on it.   I toned down the brightness and contrast on just that layer.  Then I flattened the image and used auto tone, contrast, and color.

Edge Effects

Brush Effect -
May 7th 2010, 5:56 PM, F/9, 1/250, Layton Utah, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS -
For this photo I converted it to a smart filter and used the Fresco Filter to give it a painted look.  I made the brush size 2, brush detail 8 and texture 1.  I then deleted the photo and brought out the white background color.  I used the history brush tool to bring the picture back.  The thick brush I used was the last brush at 453 pixels.  I went from side to side to get a good brushed on effect on the photo.

Double Fade Border - June 6th 2010, 7:31PM, F/3.2, 1/30, Rexburg, Idaho, Canon Powershot SD 780 IS - I really loved the way this photo turned out so I pretty much just left it the way it us, just using auto tone and contrast to edit the photo.  To get this border I reduced the picture so I didn't have to crop it too much.  I matched the color of one of the bulbs for the canvas extension to add some variety to the background border.  I also chose to go as small as possible in my borders because I did it on another picture and went a little too big and it ended up looking not too great.  This border looks awesome!  

Night and Light Effects

Rings -  I took the series of these photos on Tuesday June 8th at 10:37.  I set the shutter speed to 10 seconds and the F Stop was 2.8.  These were all taken in my apartment in Rexburg Idaho and I used my roommate's Canon Powershot A720 IS.  I liked the colors and the way these pictures turned out.  To get these shots I took the glow stick bracelets and arranged them into a pattern like this:

Then I moved the camera in a circle making the circles blur.

Then I moved the camera across the line to get a cool blur.  I love how these turned out!

Sarah - June 8th 2010, 10:26 PM, F/2.8, 15 sec, Rexburg, ID, Canon Powershot A720 IS For this shot I had 3 of my friends move glow sticks while I took I pushed the button on the camera.  My friend wrote out Sarah and then I flipped it in photoshop.  Then I painted some of the background black because the blinds were letting some light in that was a little distracting.