Photoshop Workshop 4*

Vignette

to do a vignette i used lens correction which has an inbuilt vignette option to find this i used the help bar and typed in lens correction which automatically finds what i am looking for








this option now appears which is where photoshop automatically updates the lens database with all the newest lenses that have came out.






this is the lens correction tool bar as you can see vignette is at the bottom this is where you can choose your midpoint which should be the middle then you can choose your vignette from bright to dark -100 is darkest 100 is the lightest









Adding Colour

To add color to an image you can go to the paintbrush tool then select the color you want to paint onto your image for this test i used black.

as you can see i have painted black onto the house image this is going to make the bricks darker i could also use the flow and opacity to make the color less harsh








these are the blending options its best to see which one has the best effect on the image for this one im going to use overlay.










overlay has now been selected

as you can see the black that i painted on has now just been overlayed onto to the bricks and has darkened them but it is very noticable to make this better i could change the flow and opacity to a much lower number to make it more subtle.










Text

This is the text tool and it is used to add text to images.

you click on the image and type in what you like you can use the transform tools to move the text around.


this is the font list and you get the name of the font and a preview of what the font looks like so you can judge what the text will look like quickly before you choose it.










after a couple of minutes editing the text i have created this it is dark and grungy and doesn't really suit the image but it works.
the black background on the text is too harsh so im going to use blur to change that.









i used filters>blur>gaussien blur to change the black background for the text into something much softer










Selective color

this is how you do selective color first you get your color version of the photo and make a duplicate layer then turn the duplicate layer to black and white













Then you choose the eraser tool and select your brush size. you need to make sure you choose the right brush size and that it isnt too big










Then you start to paint in the color the best thing to do is only make small parts of the image color to create a good contrast









This was the next stage of my selective coloring












Transforming

to use the transform tools you go to edit>transform>warp this is used to stretch the corners of an image or warp it around to change the look and feel of the image

this grid will then appear after you have selected warp you can click and drag on the points on the image to stretch and warp that side.










This is a warped image as you can see the house looks like it is bending to one side.