Raster Project

So this is the first ever thing I have made with Photoshop. I had absolutely no experience whatsoever prior to this class. And unfortunately for me, I had a few technical issues and had to completely start over twice. When I started brainstorming ideas for this project, I knew that I wanted to focus on my dark hair, and on my ring. Since I was little, my family always complimented on my dark hair, and even in childhood photos, it seems that the attention is immediately drawn to my hair. It just stands out.

I also wanted to focus on my ring because I feel like its really something that just says "me". I have been wearing this ring for the past several years and very rarely remove it. This ring was actually gifted to me the first Christmas I was in college, and has just stayed with me since.

I played around a lot with this project, and have erased and attempted many other ideas. Since I knew what I wanted to accentuate, I had to really remove the background and erase anything else that took away from the photo. I actually had two copies of the same photo, and layered them to make my hair even darker. Then I used the brush tool to make my ring even brighter. I softened the edges around my photo to make it blend in more, so it didn't look like such a hard copy of a digital photo.

The rest of the steps including playing around with the hues and dark brush strokes so that it made the entire photo darker. In playing around with the colors, I thought if I could bring more attention to my hair, I could make the rest of me light, but then I ended up looking like a zombie, so darker was the way to go.

And lastly, I felt that texturizing the photo would take the attention away from my face. Through the grout in the photo I felt that my hair and ring continued to stand out. So with all the steps I took, was to really highlight only on my hair and ring.