Example of stop motion

Stop motion is a technique used to make an object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. This has been used in such things as "Wallace and Gromit" in the form of clay and during each shot, the clay is moved slighty to make it look as though it is moving. Above there are some examples of stop motion which has been used in a music video and in an advert.

using levels

Here I have used levels to enhance the photo.

2nd try at inserting another photo

This is my second attempt at inserting another picture into one of my photos. I feel that I have made a vast improvement since me previous one. I am now confident with using this technique and I will try to incorporate this in some of my photos later on in the course.

To start with I used the magic wand tool to select the background. I then used the invert botton so just the object was selected. This is only possible if the background colours are simular. I then need to make sure the right parts of the object were selected so I used the selection brush and removed some of the background that was not selected by using the magic wand tool. Also some of the object may have been selected that you need so you click on subtract and then de-select the section. I then contracted the area by one pixel so that that the object would look more realistic and not have a ring around the object. I then feathered it by 0.5 to further increase the realisticness of the photo. Then using Ctrl + C you copy the object then using Ctrl + V you paste the object into the landscape photo that you have chosen. Once you have done this you can then play around with the different positions to see what looks best. Then select the layer in which the object is in then go on filter then blur then motion blur and this enables you to blur the object you make it look as though its moving.

Here is another attempt at inserting another object into a photo. I am now pretty confident using this technique and will apply it to later projects further on in the course. Unlike the one above this one is made to look serious and I feel that I have accomplished that.

Here are the photos that I used to make my final image.

Inserting an object into another image

inserting a picture into another photo

Here are the photos I used to make the final image which is shown below.

Heres the final photo in which include the train that can be seen above. I feel I have a full understanding of how to carry out this technique and feel I can do it to a relitively high standard.

using filters - stamp black and white

in this picture i have used the stamp filter using black and white as the colours to get this image. i think the filter looks good for this particular photo as there are not many colours in it however it could be improved by changing the contrast of the photo. this will mean that the parts that have not shown up on the edited version will show up.

using filters - graphic pen

using filters - smudge stick

Using filters - stamp

Warming up a photo

First of all, you start of by deciding what section of the photo you want to warm up. In this case i am going to warm up the whole of the photo. I can do this by adding a photo filter. To do that, I click filter then go on to adjustments and I then select photo filter that brings up a box that will be used to warm up the photo. When the box appears, you select filter and scroll down to what colour you would like you image to be. In this case I have chosen Warming filter (85). Once you have selected it you can now alter the density using the toggle. The higher the percentage the stronger the colour. I do not want to make very significant changes to the photo as i still want it to look natural. By ticking the preview box, you can see what the photo is going to look like before you click OK. Once you are happy with what it looks like you click OK and you are finished.

Colourization

When saturating an image you can also choose to use the colourize tool that alows you to change the colour of the image. I am going to change the colours of each individual building and change the colour of each of them. To do this you need to use the magic lasso tool or the straight line tool. The straight line tool is a lot easier in this picture because the building are very straight. After selecting the individual building you use Ctrl + C to copy the section and then you use Ctrl + V to paste it as a new layer to work with. Once the layer is selcted you click on the hue/saturation button where a tool bar will appear. The tool bar should have 3 bars on it and we are going o use the top one which focuses on saturation. However, you need to click on the colourise tool which will change the amount of saturation into colour. By moving the toggle across the bar you will see the differnt colours uintill you find the colout you want to use then you click on ok. You should now be left with an image where the section you hav selected has been edited. To edit the rest of the buildings you folow all the same steps as above but using differnt colours to give a very good effect.

Digital Photograms

This is the origional photograph I took whilst I was in Australia last year. I am going to turn it into a photogram using photoshop. To start with, I took my origional image and using the hue/saturation tool I turned the picture into an unsaturated image by reducing the saturation as much as it will go. You then click on ok and you will be left with a black and white image. The next step is too invert the image. This is done by using the invert botton which will turn the image into negative. Very simular to a photogram.

This screen shot shows how to desaturate the image.

This screen shot shows how to invert the image.

Once you invert the image this is what the photograph will look like.

Hue/Saturation

This is the origional photo that I edited in terms of hue/saturation. The photo at the moment looks rather dull but by using photoshop it can easily be improved following these very simple steps.

First of you you start by thinking what sections of the photo can be improved. in this case it was the sky and the road. im going you make the sky a bit bluer and the road a bit brighter to give a clay effect. However, I do not want to change the picture too much in order to keep the photo looking natural. This can be acheived by making very suttle changes to the sturation for example.

When wanting to select a particular section of the picture you can either use the magic wand tool which may only selct part of the area you want, or you can use the lasso tool. This tool allows you too select the area you want to improve. Once the area is selected, you copy it by using Ctrl + C and using Ctrl +v to paste the layer as a seperate layer. This means you can just improve the selected area. Once the layer is selcted you can now start to make changes to that part of the photo. You do this by clicking on Hue/Saturation and moving the toggle across the bar until you have see the colour or shade you want. I wanted to make the sky a bit brighter and more vibrant and feel I found the couloyr that achieves this. You then click on Ok and you are ready to improve the photo even more

The next step was to start improving the road. You follow pretty much the same steps as above however the different amount of stauration will be different to get the red colour.

Here is the finished version of the picture and im my opinion I think it looks a lot better than before. The colour within the sections I edited are more vibrant than what it was previously.