Exhibit 10: Enhancement

Background

Our last exhibit was something of our choice. I am a photographer who does a lot of portraits, so for my last exhibit, I wanted to revamp my previous edits and use the new skills I learned to enhance and make them better. 

Photoshop

For these two exhibits, I used various techniques in Photoshop. 

• I lightened the image and created a new layer adding the original image and then used the brush to erase around the eyes to give that light look.

• I then made it a smart object and went into camera raw to change the contrast, individual colors, and enhance other features. 

• I used the smart object selection to outline the models, created a new mask and lightened it to give the look of a light shining on them. 

Design

The design of the images was based on my ideas as a photographer. I like portrait photography so a lot of my work is portrait work. I have learned a lot and decided to incorporate the new skills to make my prior edits even better than before. I wanted to enhance and make my old work more HD. 

• Contrast was used in several ways for both images by applying different lighting to make the models stand out. I made sure to make the darks and lights contrast each other. 

• Repetition was applied by creating different layers and adding them to each other with different edits to make it more HD.

• Alignment for these images was having the models be in the center of the different backgrounds. 

• Proximity was having the main focal point be the models and their eyes be the attention grabbers. 

• I used different color schemes for both images to give the summer vibe and the grungy vibe. 

Credits

• Editing Software: Adobe Photoshop

• Photographer: Cristian Mendez Flores (Me)

• Models: Kimberly Saenz (Top Image) and Cosette Rodgers (Bottom Image)