Photos and Photoshop

For a project I had to create a collage of photos on Photoshop. The collage was title A Day in The Life of a Mercy Student; we had to take pictures that described our life and the lives of other Mercy Students. Through this project I learned how to use Photoshop and how to use the photography elements in my pictures. At the beginning I found it hard to take pictures using those elements, but as it went on I grew comfortable taking pictures. Some of the elements I used were angle, rule of thirds, and lines. Some of the pictures I took were from above and some I took from the sides, this helped make the picture more interesting and eye catching. Other pictures had multiple elements to them, so I used rule of thirds to organize them.

To make the collage look better, I had to edit the pictures. Some of the techniques I used were cropping pictures, changing the perspective, cutting out part of the image, changing parts of the pictures color, and changing the picture to black and white. I cropped all the pictures to the best picture by using the crop tool. I changed the perspective of one picture by going to edit, then transform, and then perspective. In two pictures there was a sign in the background that I did not want in the photo. I cut it out by using the polygonal-lasso tool and used the magic wand to fill in the color. To change the color of a shirt I used the magic wand tool to change the hues of the color. The shirt was too dark for the picture and needed to be lightened. The last thing I did to edit the pictures, was I changed one picture to black and white.