Here are some photos I edited. The left are the originals, the right are after photoshop. These were cell phone pics that had come out too yellow. I first used the contrast tool within a levels layer to set black and white points, then adjusted the individual red green and blue sliders in the levels layer, I made a hue/saturation layer and adusted the tones individually for both pictures. I created a curves level to see if I could make them any better. The curves did a lot for the top picture but I ended up throwing it out on the picture of me because it wasn't adding anything. Finally I did the layout making the canvas big enough for all picture plus a quarter inch border.

A collage of sorts

Hi everyone...
This is an edit I did last night of some photos I took about a year ago. Each of them have some feeling that I associate with them, and I wanted to express that textually, as well as make a set of interconnected emotions. Love, pain, energy, life....none of those can exist without the others, and this was just kind of a fun representation of that. Any thoughts on it?
I did some color corrections on each of the photos, as well as some curve adjustments, but other than that I did not really mess with them. The 'love' photo actually had a previous color edit I did on it (I couldn't find my original) that involved converting into lab color and making changes, then changing back to RGB.


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A collage of sorts...

Hi everyone...
This is an edit I did last night of some photos I took about a year ago. Each of them have some feeling that I associate with them, and I wanted to express that textually, as well as make a set of interconnected emotions. Love, pain, energy, life....none of those can exist without the others, and this was just kind of a fun representation of that. Any thoughts on it?
I did some color corrections on each of the photos, as well as some curve adjustments, but other than that I did not really mess with them. The 'love' photo actually had a previous color edit I did on it (I couldn't find my original) that involved converting into lab color and making changes, then changing back to RGB.

Pencil Case Diptic

Here is my diptic of my pencil case that has yet to be moved from my living room floor.

continuous ocean

four images placed together. 

  Emily Chan 

Zebras in Point Arena

So we went up the coast for a couple of nights, and Saturday afternoon we were driving up a road when we realized that in the open field in front of us, 5 zebras were grazing happily, just as you might find 5 horses or donkeys. Very curious.

Salt and Pepper

I haven't altered these in photoshop yet but I used a couple of different settings on my camera. I'd love some feedback about which one you think looks best and then I'll choose one to tweak. Thanks!

Grandpa 'N' Me

Here is a photo of my grandfather and I wayyyy back when on his horse at his house in Tehachapi. It is one of my favorite photos, and I haven't completed all of the clean up I would like to do with this photo, but I think for now it looks good :)
I did some global color changes to the color image before desaturating, and I also did a slight S curve before desaturating, and it gave it a wider tonal range as a grayscale photo.

pre-term

First I open the image and changed into greyscale. Then I adjusted the levels by finding the lightest and darkest part of the image. Then I used curves to show more of a contrast.

                        Emily Chan

Elephant Pipe 2

First I cleaned this up using the healing brush and the clone tool. This Image was already really contrasty, and there was very little information in the skin. I used curves and levels to heighten the contrast until there was more information in my arm and in the pipe.  I used the selection points to focus on that particular area.

B/W JULIA

This is a black and white photo i scanned in in rgb. I didn't choose to convert it to grayscale because it looked a lot richer like this. I did slight adjustments to the contrast using the levels layer. I also gave some color to her face using a very transparent paint brush. 

Cool Garbage

This is a picture that I converted from color to black and white. My main goal in the conversion was to preserve the details in the picture. I accomplished this by adjusting the levels and curves to heighten the contrast. This is a picture I took of garbage on the street in Barcelona.

family portrait

My brothers and I spent a beautiful day in San Francisco's Crissy Field to take pictures of our new member of the family, our dog, Louie.
In gray scale mode, I changed the brightness/contrast levels in order to lighten the dark areas.

Peace

This is a friend taking a picture of a stream and getting her own shadow on the rocks. I used curves to ever so subtly darken the shadow so that it would be crisper and using curves seemed to add a little more detail into the shadows and the highlights of the photo. Because of the peace sign, this image makes me think of tie-dye and Across the Universe and the Beatles!

Alexis Pike

Alexis was the opener for John Divola last Friday at SFAI. Her project, Human Nature, touches on an interesting juxtaposition of nature and its representation in her native Idaho.

Minneapolis Art Shanty Project

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. As I mentioned in class today, I spent the weekend in Minneapolis, MN. One of my stops was the Art Shanty Project, an annual Minneapolis event where artists create their own versions of "ice fishing" shanties on a frozen lake just outside the city.
It was freezing, but a lot of fun.

Flying into Oakland

This was the sky this morning flying into a lovely overcast day here in the Bay Area. I hope you all had a productive weekend. Just a reminder on a couple of fronts:

Check out the show currently up at the Mills Museum:
We Interrupt Your Program

Gail Wight and Anne Walsh will be speaking tomorrow at 7:30 in Danforth.

Don't forget to upload your image edits to the blog. If you're having trouble, holler!
That's all for now.

Club Photo with Color Edits

The colors in this image were originally bright, but I used hue/saturation to make the reds pop more, the blues come out more, and I also adjusted the yellows so my skin looked more tan and less reddish. I used curves to make the lights less blinding and boost the midtones to darker overall. In color balance, I added a little more green and yellow overall. I didn't really use levels that much. More of my color adjustments happened in curves and color balance.

Here's that picture of the Brooklyn Bridge that I took on my last trip to New York.  First I tried to lessen the contrast in layers, bringing out more of a range of tones.  After that I made some more fine tuned changes in curves.  That's when I found out that the picture had clouds in the background!  So cool.

-Josie

Study Session

Here is a photo I took of myself and a friend the night before our French final last semester. 

I first altered the color and then played with the curves adjustment layer.

Glass Bottles v2.0

This is the first image I uploaded to the blog. It's originally a B&W 35mm negative that I scanned in color (24 bit) and later converted to greyscale and retouched. What a difference, right? I prefer a high contrast, but tried to bring out as much of the midtones in the bottles as I possibly could without losing too much contrast using Curve.

Scanned Images....

This image was very poor quality so I cleaned up what I could and then adjusted the color, really just trying to get a good range of blacks and whites. I did some slight adjusting in levels, and an s-curve adjustment in curves. Overall, it isn't a very impressive image at all, but I posted it just because I think it is incredible what you can do with the healing brush and the Clone stamp!



This image is a polaroid of my cousin and I and as is the case with most polaroids, the coloring was a bit off. I used the Sean Duggan technique for adjusting, and it did the trick PERFECTLY. The background was a little too dark though, so I made a VERY slight adjustment in curves to show a little more detail in the background.

Club Photo to Black and White

This is the image that I converted to grayscale in RGB1998.
I used curves to make the darks darker and the lights not so blinding. I used levels to make the midtones a little darker overall, and specific changes in levels to give more definition to my facial features. I also cropped the image from the original size.

Color Correction

The image on the left was originally color, and I converted to black+white through the image menu and selected grey scale. I used the levels layer and utilized the Sean Duggan strategy for color correction. I wanted to keep detail in the backdrop as well as in their faces, and the "clouds" in front of them. The adjustments had a very small impact on the b+w image. It did create a finer tonal range.

This is a color picture(right) to which I identified the brightest part as her top, and the darkest point in the flower

s to the bottom left. I used the levels layer and used the color correction used by Sean Duggan. Since this image was originally well balanced, the adjustments were 

minor changes. I wanted to keep a broad tonal range.

scanned image in gray scale

It was important to me to not blow out the background while maintaining the details in my hands and hair. I used my hair as the basis for accurate balance. I did this by making a slight S curve in curves and then locking down the points in curve (I then tossed out this change because it didn't make a difference).

As Far As I Could Get - John Divola Lecture at SFAI

Friday, February 15, 2008
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, Ca
(at Jones Street)
7:30 pm

Introductory Presentation by Alexis Pike

$10.00 general admission $5.00 students with ID tickets available at the door

A 40s Portrait

This is a picture of my grandmother that my grandfather took and developed himself. I think this picture is great because it seems like it could easily have been from an old movie I have seen. A project that I think I would enjoy would be to scan and clean up some of my grandfather's old photos and I think it would have been something he would have appreciated. My grandpa loved photography and looking through some of his photos, I noticed that he liked to take pictures similar to this one where people are sitting in front of mirror. 

Barcelona Grafica

This is a picture of the sign for the market I frequented in Barcelona when I studied there. This picture is from a book of pictures of signs, graffiti, and architectural details from the city of Barcelona called Barcelona Grafica by America Sanchez. This is one of my favorite books.

emulating Imogen Cunningham

I took this photograph in the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco as an assignment for Photo Concerns I.

museum signs

Museums I visited in Europe.

Interesting...

I did not mean to post a blog...sorry!

(Speaking of....how do we delete an entry?)

I <3 NY

Here's a picture from my last trip to New York.

I took this while driving past the Brooklyn Bridge.

Josie

Testing Tolerance

I really think that this is the most powerful published photograph I have ever encountered. The contrast between the red, white, and black looks perfectly staged, however the expressions are wonderfully candid.

Here is the link to the article from the International Herald Tribune:

Snail Shell System - My Future Home

This is insane but real. Check it out, it isn't photo, but sculpture of a sort.

snail

at Third Line Galley 

Elephant Pipe

Kathleen's uncle back in the day

This is my Uncle Mike teasing my Cousin Lisa when they were kids. He has a tendency of picking on the younger females of the family! Here is a website to the Fraenkel Gallery (www.fraenkelgallery.com), which I visited recently with the photo 1 class where we saw work by Katy Grannan. This artist chooses to show a bleaker side of San Francisco. While most people usually praise San Francisco for its beauty, culture, and eccentricities, this artist shows people living on the outskirts of life. 

Mommie and me

This is me and my mother when I was 3. I only removed dust from the image. ~Kate

student module

This is a project for the 3D Concepts class. It's made of wooden dowels and measures about 3' x 3'. Cherise spent 50+ hours putting it together and installing it.

NYT

Glass Bottles

Barnacles of Glory

These are barnacles on the rocks during low tide at Canon Beach in Oregon. It was where the Goonies was filmed! 35mm Nikon. Lily