Contrast Projecct

This is the Final image of my work.
This is the text tutorial:

http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/2448/1/Diamond-Text-Effect

This is the URL of the image:

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/charlie-sheen/images/17776967/title/charlie-sheen-wallpaper

         The first thing I did was make a stamp copy of the background (Charlie in this case.) The I did a black vector mask and filled his eyes with white paint on about 25% opacity and changed the blend mode to screen. Later I made another stamp copy of layer 1 and desaturated the image and the changed the blend mode to hard light to sharpen charlie. I repeated that step except I made a high pass instead of desaturated and also made a black vector mask to make his facial hair look better. I made another stamped copy which had a blend mode of multiply and made a white vector mask so to fix his hair a little. After that I made another stamp copy and desaturated the image while also reducing brightness and increasing contrast;then I made a black vector mask so I could fix his facial hair yet again.(blend mode still hard light) I made another stamp copy but added a Gaussian blur effect and changed the blend mode to hard light.

 As for the letters I made then in another document following the tutorial steps and then just simply trasnlated them to the charlie psd file.

Grunge

For this assignment I made a grunge effect on the old man. As you can see the top picture is the original and the bottom picture is the more aggressive version of the old man after the grunge.
       One of the things I did most was make a stamp copy of the old man several times which just saves time. I also made vector mask and used the high pass effect to add more sharpening to the old man. I also changed up the brightness just a bit to make him look like more of a threat. If  I could change one thing about this at this moment it would be the beard color because it looks a little out of place to me.

WhiteGuyHighPass

The first thing I did was duplicate the layer and added a high pass to about 500 pixels. Later I changed the blend mode to hard light. Then I copied the new layer I made (the first copy) and then copied it again and changed the opacity to about 55%. Later I added a new layer and set it to hard light and filled it with 50% gray. The last few steps was adding 2% of noise with gaussian and monochromatic checked in and the last step was ti desaturate the image to about -26.
In conclusion this is a white guy who looks even better due to Photoshop.

Ipod

This beautiful work of art was made by an extremely brilliant mind. The brilliant mind took a picture of himself and filled himself with black color and gave himself an I pod for no reason at all. Then he added a green back ground using the paint bucket tool. Later he made a layer and placed it in front of the background layer and behind himself so he would have a fun, beautiful background.

This might be my worst attempt in Photoshop but, it is still my master piece by far. I used scattering within the butterflies. Opacity within the grass and my own drawing was a Pikachu. The dual tone was in the grass as well since it was originally feathers, but I combined it with another brush to create grass. If I could change anything it would be everything.

Aqua

The image above was made using many different tools like the Ellipse tool and the move tool. The bubbles were generally copied after making just one bubble. I am absolutely proud of this project because, it would make girls faint from how beautiful it is.