Color Correction 2

This is the second color correction assignment for my Game Design class. The objective of the assignment was to take a picture at home and color correct it.

This assignment was pretty easy since we had done something similar with the last project. I took a picture of my cat just lazing around in the basement. in the original photo at lot of the image was either desaturated or over exposed to the flash from the camera. So what I did was put the colors back into the images and toned down the contrast. The sofa was a pale green in stead of the deep green shown.  The blanket picked up most of the camera's flash so I added more color saturation and added more contrast. The sheets in the background were a bit dim too so i just brightened those up with the curves option. I made all of my selections with the quick mask and then copied and pasted the selected items about the base photo. From there i just applied individual adjustment layers to each item. I mainly made use of the Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers.

Color Correction Assignment

This is the color correction assignment for my Game Design class. The objective of the assignment was to fix the issues plaguing the images below as best we could using the image adjustments options

This first image had high contrast issues and the color was over saturated. By using the levels, curves and exposure options I tinkered around till I lowered the saturation of the colors and adjusted the overall brightness of the image. Then I used the variations option to further desaturate the colors.

The second image had the opposite problem of the first. It was too dark and so i tried to brighten it up with the Curves and Exposures options. I wanted to try to keep the colors as accurate as possible while pushing up the brightness and contrast.

The final image looked faded and old. I started out using the levels option again and then switched to Curves. When i was manipulating the curve line I pulled in a section toward the histogram which saturated the colors and made them look more vibrant. After that I tinkered with the contrast to refined the shadows.

Photoshop Selection Tools

This is one of my assignments from my Game Design class. We were given the task of using the basic selection tools of Photsohop to cut out the following images. The objective was to get as clean a cut as possible with only the selection tools and Quick Mask.

Image 1

For this first image here I started out with the magic wand tool to get rid of the white background. I made multiple selections around the woman and from there i started using the quick mask tool to get into the major problem areas. It was a tedious process but I went in and masked out the majority of the white spaces in between the sections of hair. I made sure to use a brush with 0 hardness so as to prevent the cut from looking like a cardboard cut out. For the most part I used mainly used my tablet and my mouse to get the best results i could using Quick Mask.

 Image 2

This second image was much more difficult than the first one.  While there was less overall hair to deal with the outdoor background this image had made getting a precision cut more difficult. I tried to mix things up and use the Magnetic lasso but it required more patience than I was willing to give. I tried to used the marquee tools before I went back to the magic wand and Quick mask combination but my results weren't as good as with my first picture.