Family Portraits

Nampa Idaho - April 2009 - 3pm - f 3.2 - 1/60 - Canon Powershot S2 IS

This is my mom and my niece Niki. I first added a filter in photoshop to make the picture look like it was painted in water colors. I then placed a border to outline the picture and added the bush on effect. This was possible by going through a series of adding image layers to place a white cover over the picture. I then added a layer mask in black and selected thick, heavy brushes. There were three different types of brushes at three different opacities to add a splotchy and transparent effect.


f 4.5 - 1/50 - Sony DSC - H7

Rexburg Idaho - 5:15pm - June 3, 2009 - f 3.8 - 1/400 -Sony-DSC H7

Cedar City Utah - 11am - f 2.7 - 1/60 - Cannon Powershot S2 IS

I was able to take the stamp tool in photo shot and go around the blemishes for Nate's skin. I did that a couple times with my skin also. I then took the magnetic tool and outlined the teeth for both of us. Once that was outlined, I opened the saturation tool and turned the saturation down. This makes the teeth whiter and pulling up the brightness bar makes the teeth brighter. The lips and eyes were saturated by using the sponge tool and pulling the opacity down to 30 percent. If the opacity was too high, it would make us both look like we were wearing lipstick. I was able to do the exact same thing with Ana and Tory above. Ana's dress was a light blue and I was able to change it to white through highlighting the dress with the magnetic lasso and then adding a layer (pokemon ball) and going to hue/saturation. There a person can change the color of the dress to whatever is wanted.