A Day in the Life of a Mercy Student

 

For the past few weeks our class has been working on the Photoshop program. We learned many tools that are very helpful in making nice, clean photos. In this project, we were to make a collage that shows a day in the life of a Mercy student. In almost every photo, I used a tool to make the picture better. For example, in the picture at the top with my friend Abigail reading a book, I made the scar on her leg disappear. I did this by using the patch tool. I used her regular skin color around her scar to make it cover up her scar. Now it looks as if she never even had a scar. My other friend, Haley, I took her photo at the podium and also the picture of her at the board, I used the dodge tool on the pictures because they were a little too dark. The board picture, I turned down the opacity so see through her picture and kind of the picture behind it. In the picture with Haley at the water fountain, the picture started out really yellow. I went to color and balance and took out the yellow mid tones and put more blue into it. Then, I went to highlights and put more green and blue into it, to make a less yellow tint. I also used the burn tool on her back because the light made her back white. When I used the burn tool, it turned her shirt back to its actual color, yellow. Last but not least, the picture of Haley at the lockers. I brightened the picture and also made it have more contrast to make the picture look sharper. I also added a little cyan color to it.

Those are some of the elements that can be used in Photoshop. There are many more to use and they will help make better pictures. Photoshop is a good program to use for making collages or just to help make photos look crisp and professional.