technique-smoke effect

The new technique that I found out was how to do the smoke effect. I tried it out and this is what it looks like compared to how it’s really supposed to look like. The technique didn't turn out the way i wanted it to turn out. I think what I did wrong was I didn’t use the highlighting enough and the burn tool. I think I should’ve used fading effects for my picture. If you like to try this technique you can visit this website at http://www.bluesfear.com/submittuts/ps/1/. Hope you like the effect.:) sunnie25

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Famous Photographer Erik Almas

Erik Almas is a great photographer, he has a portfolio of landscapes, life styles, fashion, portraits and fine art. He grew up in Trondheim, Norway. He moved to the U.S to study photography. He attended the Academy of art university for 4 years and h e graduated in 99 with" best portfolio" in the spring show. In 2004 they gave him an honorary degree of outstanding alumnus. He assisted Jim Erickson for about 3 years and he said that the couldn't find a better mentor. Jim inspired him and encouraged Eriks own image making and gave him a set of working habits that helped him succeed on his own.Now he is living in San Francisco where he calls home and shoots lots of pictures. His portraits are very real and sharp that you can see every detailin them. The fashion pictures look very beautiful and some looked like there unrealistic but i looks good like that. The landscapes are very beautiful and i have never seen them before, they show the high mountain ranges and it looks really cool because of the sun shining on the beautiful landscapes. Hope you like this short biography about Erik Almas,and if you want to know more about him or see some of his fine photographs you can visit this site at http://www.erikalmas.com/. Hope you like the website.:) sunnie25

Random Album cover 2

For my second random album cover i got a random word from wikipedia which was "Forde Forgre" and it was my band name. Then i got the last 4 words from a random quotes site which was " they cannot find it" and then i went to flickr and the third picture was a gecko so i saved it on photo shop. i used the crop tool to make the picture square like an album cover and pressed on shift while doing that.Then i put the word Ford forge at the top of the picture and made the font green and added an outer glow so it would match the mood of the picture and pop out. the i took the word "they cannot find it"and placed each word diagonally on the back of the gecko and made the letters yellow. i think the music would be more like melodious and naturalistic music. So here is my random album cover. hope you like it.:) sunnie25

Random Album Cover 1

For my first random album cover i went on the lci comm tech page and went on the random album cover blog and went on Wikipedia and got the name that appeared first which was "Zula Hula" and it was the name of the band. Then i went on the second link which was a quotes link and i had to get the last 4 or 5 words of the last quote which was "the image of god". Then i went to the last link which was flickr and i had to us the third picture which was of two boys skateboarding. Then i went to photoshop and saved the picture. I put the word Zula Hula on the left side of the picture vertically and the words straight down by clicking on vertical at the top of the page. Then i placed the word The image of god on the skateboard ramp and skewed it so it would look like it was actually written on the ramp and added an outer glow to the letters so they would pop out. After that i took the word Zula Hula and changed the font so it would look like it was a boys band and changed the colour to blue and the outer glow to light blue. I thought this was a soothing boys band so this is why i used thes types of fonts and colours . So here's the random album cover. hope you like it.:)sunnie25

Jonas Brothers in the Desert

Here i have a picture of the jonas brothers and i want to put them in the desert. So first i cut as much as i can around the jonas brothers using the MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL and then by taking the NORMAL LASSO TOOL i used SHIFT and ALT and made the little adjusments around them that i have missed or filled and then i went up to select and then inverse so that only they would be selected.Then by using the MOVE TOOL i pressed down shift and moved the picture to the desert. When i moved the picture it was really big and i went up to EDIT and then TRANSFORM and thesacle and made them my preffered size. then by taking the magic wand magic wand i took out the peices between them and aound them by zooming in and seeing the little pieces. After that i wanted the light to shine on the jonas brothers from the sun in the backround so i went to IMAGE then ADJUSTSMENTS and then BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST. I put the jonas bothers in the desert because they wouldnt come in the desert with a microphone an guiter and play with no audiance or people and it is also to hot with the blazing sun. Hope you like it. :) sunnie25

obama at the great wall of china

On photo shop i had two pictures of Barack Obama in front of the capital state and i had to put it him in front of the great wall of china. Both of the pictures look different. For the first one i used the MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL to carve around just Obama, when i was done i went up to SELECT at the top and clicked on INVERSE so only Obama would be selected and that he would only be moved to the great wall of china. Then by clicking on the"move tool" i clicked on Obamas picture and moved him to the great wall of china.When i moved him to the great wall of china he was really big so i want on EDIT then i went on TRANSFORM and then i clicked on scale to make him smaller. I wanted the sunlight in the background to come on his face so he would look like he was in the sunlight so i went to LAYER and then on ADJUSTMENT and went to BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST.That was my first Obama picture.

For the second picture i used the MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL to carve around Obama then i moved him to the next picture by clicking on him by the MOVE TOOL. When i moved him to the great wall of china he was really big so i went on EDIT then i went on TRANSFORM and then i clicked on SCALE and i made him smaller.I wanted to get rid of the blue halo around his head so i erased it with the eraser by zooming in and finding all the halo. Then i saved the two pictures and posted them here. Hope you like them:) sunnie25

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