Text

Here are my two photos with text added. I used the overlay layer technique that we used for dodge and burn so that you get some of the colors from the background in the text instead of it being a solid color.

Clone Stamp

The above was the first image, and then I used the clone stamp tool to make it look like my sister was out in the middle of the water instead of not far from the shore.

Dodge and Burn plus Filter photos

Here is my original photo. It's pretty boring -- nothing special.

Here is the photo after using the dodge and burn tool. I darkened the sky and brightened up the trees. I think it totally changes the feel of the shot. Dodge and burn is probably my favorite new photoshop discovery! It was so easy!
In this photo I added a grain filter and then lightened my cousin so that he wasn't blocked out as much by the filter. This made the filter affect the background and highlight him a little more.

Here I added a few filters -- I don't remember all of them but the main one was the noise filter using horizontal noise. The photo was also a lot lighter but I duplicated the background into a second layer and used the overlay method which emphasized all the colors and shadows a lot. I like how this makes it look less like a digital photo and sort of like a bad, old, regular printed photo.

Fixed Photo #2

So durring the wedding I was experimenting with different flash settings to try to get the best lighting. Clearly this was a photo where the settings were WRONG so I used it and tried to fix it for this assignment. I lightened it with multiple layers and selected the subjects to lighten only them and not the background, cropped it to get rid of the partial flower right in the front corner, and then made the whole thing black and white because some of the colors were very off after the lightening.

Fixed photo # 1

For this photo I selected my cousin and her husband in the boat, then used the inverse selection option, and changed the saturation on the water and reflection so that the focus was more on the boat and the two people and less on the background.

Photoshop experiments

So this is a picture that was created with two shots -- one of the stars and one of our new puppy lying on our kitchen floor. I used the select tools to take the puppy out of the kitchen and place him in the grass. Then I resized him a bit, copied the grass on one side and placed it in front of him on the other side since the grass in the spot he is was too tall to use as a layer in front of him. I will be posting at least one more experimental photo soon!

These were two photos again that I merged using selection and layers. They were taken in two totally different lightings but I thought they looked cool together anyway. The selection isn't great and the quality of the photo of my little sister isn't great but I couldn't help but use it anyway!

Landscapes

These were a few of my landscape shots. I wasn't thrilled with any of them since they're pretty basic, but I like the colors of the top two a lot.