Week 9 More Editting with PS Elements

So this week I have gotten off to a early start to try and play catch up in my other class, which is no where near as much fun as this one is :-) That being said I have to say that I put a lot of work into the photos and it seems well worth it. My ah-ha moment has been realizing that when I go to work on a photo I can't leave it at what we've learned this week, I am now viewing things through a much more artistic eye and less afraid to try new things.

This is the original of my son Joe, he was dressed as a mouse for his part of the circus his school put on last week.

And this is what I came up with, I love the comic book effect that occurred when I was done. First I cropped this to be rule of thirds and because I liked the way he ended up being framed by the yellow lines. Next I clone stamped to edit the other kids out and to remove the glare from in front of him. Lastly I went to the filter gallery and tried all of the filters, and finally decided I liked the Fresco filter the best.

This is my oldest son (Far left) at his best friend's birthday a week or so ago. Sky is the one in the middle on the right. They were hanging out in City Center in Montpelier because Sky's thing is elevators; he also has autism so it's great that they have that in common.

This one I did a lot more work on, first I used the burn tool to take care of the glare on the glass blocks. Than I used dodge with highlights to brighten the balloons. I used dodge again but with midtones to lighten the boys up. I cropped the picture to get rid of some of the background. Than I copied the background layer and clone stamped the glare from the reflectors on shoes and boots. I used burn to darken the boys worn jeans, and finally I added a Texturizer filter. I think this showed this rag-tag crew off well, although more than one could use a haircut :-)