Jerry Uelsmann Recreation!

For our first assignment, we had to recreate one of Jerry Uelsmann's photos. His image is the top and my recreation is the bottom. I chose an old house and a tree with a lot of roots to best recreate his image. The background is composed of several different images blended together. I chose a sky that had a glow to it to add almost an eerie effect. I finished it off with a light sepia tone to make everything the same color and add that vintage effect. I feel the tree I chose was a little too wide for the size of the house. I also wish I could have blended the two together more instead of it having such a harsh line. Overall though, I like the finished product because I had to do a lot of touch ups to make everything work together and I think it came out well.

Photoshop Tutorials

Custom Pattern Effects: This tutorial showed how to create a pattern that you can manipulate in an image. I chose this image that I took at a Train concert because it had a black background and was easy to add a pattern too. I chose a hieroglyphic background and I think it made the image really interesting and gave it a lot more depth. I really like how it turned out. 

The Bourne Effect: This tutorial showed how to recreate The Bourne Legacy movie poster. By using HDR Toning adjustment, you can make the image very contrasty and grungy. Then overlaying it with your original image you get the perfect effect. Using paths, you can create the bars, hiding parts of the image. I think this was a really great technique and can be used for any thing you're trying to create. 

*image and title courtesy of Ashley*

 Aging a Photo with Textures: In this tutorial, a quick and easy way was shown to make photos vintage looking. By using a paper texture and simply applying it to the image as an overlay, you get this really cool photo. I will definitely be using this technique on more photos.

Photoshop Tools: Paint/Pencil Brush and Color Replacement Tool

The Paint and Pencil Brushes have many uses. They can simply be used to draw or write on your photo or can be used to add effects to your image. By changing the layer to overlay mode, you can change the color of your image, but make it look more realistic. There are many different styles of brushes as well that can be used to spice up your photos. When filling in smaller details, you want to be sure to use the pencil brush.

The Color Replacement Tool is even better for changing the color of an image, because it keeps the original texture of the image. This is great if you want to have a part of your image stand out from the rest.