Thoughtful Portrait

This is my project of the thoughtful portrait, the subject is Brandon, I've taken all the picture. In this project, I did a lot of editing, I had no idea what I am doing first, I find inspiration throught playing around with everything in photoshop. So when I takes the photo of Brandon, it was a quick shot from my phone, Which I believe we were in portland, they he is satifies with how the photo came out, so thats how I decide to choose this photo and to edit around with it.

In photoshop, first I decided copied two layers, thats always a good habit of doing, then I went and grab my Supreme sticker, then I put it on the right top side of the photo and tried to make it look like a sign by changing the opacity down, and adding inner shadow, and then I merged them together, and I have a graident of blue to white, lower the opacity and put in on color burn, then I merged again, then I copied layers of the merged one, and I applied filter on it, which was Emboss and tiles, then I lower the opacity and I put in on vivid light blending.

Something I learned in this project is how to use a lot of filters, and how opacity and mask can change a lot of the photo, and how graident can applied on changing photo's tone, then I learn how each blending mode reacts and build off eachother.