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After
In my photo, I started off by cropping it, I no longer wanted a rule of thirds type of photo. I wanted my focus to be the tiger I put over my face, and the bright blue eye's. In the original photo I have white stripes on my shirt that were really taking away the focus of my photo, so I coloured it over with black. I also changed my photo to black and white so the tiger face could blend with the rest of my skin tone and look more natural. What I really wanted to accomplish is my eyes standing out, so I kept them as the original colour and turned everything else into black and white. I also played around with the tiger face so it would fit my face naturally and I also erased near my eyes. A problem I had while editing this photo was figuring out how to keep my eyes from turning in to black and white along with the rest of me. I ended up using the lasso tool to make a new layer for each eye and I was able to accomplish only my eyes not in black and white.
In this photo, I cropped so it was closer to my face, it didn't seem nessecasry to stay farther away from my face. I wanted to use pink and blue for my gradient tool because the photo that was overlaying my face was pink and blue and I thought it looked neat. For my overlay, I used a flower texture I thought was pretty. I erased the overlay from everywhere but my skin, I made sure it wasn't on my teeth or lips and my eyes as well. A problem I had while playing with this photo is using the gradient tool around my hair, my hair is curled in this photo so I had to get around my curls neatly,it took some time.
I think my final product is succesful. I feel a lot more knowledged after this assignment, I learned a lot and I feel more confident editing photos on Adobe Photoshop. Overlaying photo's is a cool technique to play around with it. I think my first photo is very succesful, it's exactly what I imagined when I thought about what I wanted to do for this assingment. My first photo is defiantly my favourite, I spent a lot more time on it and I like the idea better, but I do like the second one it's happy and fun, the colours are very cheerful.