Background: 

This was a photograph taken from Pixabay royalty-free images. Originally, the person in the photograph was fully colored. Using history brushes and a desaturation filter, I removed the color from their hands. This portfolio exhibit demonstrates my skills in Photoshop to stylize images. 

Design: 

By making the person's hands black and white, I have created a healthy contrast with the color of their face. This focuses the attention in on the colorful features and balances the photo better. The hands and eyes create a natural repetition whereupon the photograph is centered around; my work with brushes has supported this repetition by emphasizing the repeated elements. Alignment is found within the shapes made by the hands, again reinforced by their desaturation, each shape is mirrored and creates a strong center alignment. Proximity in this case is most applicable in my use of brushes. In larger sections, colors are more blended to mimic broad strokes with a wide brush, then smaller details are mixed with smaller brushes, retaining detail and keeping similar colors in close proximity to one another. 

Photoshop Skills Used: 

History brush, art history brush, camera raw filter, photoshop filters, and history panel. 

Credits: 

Pixabay photo: pixabay.com/images/id-2696947/ 

Texturelabs Brushes: texturelabs.org/tutorials/art-history-brush-photoshop-tutorial/