Monday, March 4, 2019

Option 2- Layers Portrait


I tried to take a few pictures taken at the same time, on the same day of my sister Sarah.  I didn't realize how much the light changed depending on my camera settings or how close she was to me. I chose the main picture because I loved the light shining through the trees and her caught like she was just walking through the trees, but the other ones are posed and the light wasn't as good, so I put them all on this image.

I played around with a variety of filters- very cool.  I settled on the Stylize Find Edges for top left, Stained Glass for top right where I changed the cell size to 11 and the light intensity to 3.  Bottom left I used Sumi-E filtering and decreased the contrast to 11 for that picture and finally bottom right I used Sketch Note Paper where I had to decrease the image balance to 19 so I could make out her face.


For this next image I put a layer on top of the picture and filled it with the paintbrush a purple color. I decreased the opacity to 60% and applied a stained glass filter.  I then erased the top layer on their faces and a bit of their hair too.  

Before and After:  I changed the vibrance (increased it) and altered the hue and saturation to where I thought the picture looked best and then cropped it a bit too.


 Finally I took this picture of Sarah but thought it looked very flat.  I just increased the brightness and saturation and cropped it in and then added the words that make me think of her always.