Student Portfolio Exhibit #4 - Student Choice
For your fourth portfolio exhibit, add being able to use selections to remove subjects from their background and add them to a design of your own! You can create a flyer, brochure, poster, card - whatever. It's your choice. Create something that will impress a potential employer in your degree program.
Post your exhibit to your e-portfolio, along with a description that talks about your design thoughts:
Post your exhibit to your e-portfolio, along with a description that talks about your design thoughts:
- How have you used contrast?
- How did you use repetition?
- How did you align elements in your design?
- How have you used proximity?
- What were your font choices, and why did you choose them?
- How have you used color? Why did you choose the color scheme you used?
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Abby Hawkman:
What feels good about this design?
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Alana Manesse:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- Excellent job turning a daytime photo into a night scene.
- Great job cutting out the wolf and placing it in this scene.
- Good job on the moon and its reflection
- The wolf is a bit too bright for your scene. Night time, moonlit scenes remove much of the color. Here's what I did...
- I used a gradient map adjustment layer where the gradient was dark blue to light blue, and then I reduced the opacity some so a little color came through.
- I duplicated your layer you used to darken the wolf. Then I selected the wolf and added that as a mask on those two darkening layers.
- On the moon's reflection, I used a ripple filter. Then I used a motion blur filter.
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Ali Blackham:
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Allie Gibson:
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What feels good about this design?
- Nice work recoloring the background wall, Allie.
- You could also recolor your jumpsuit. Even warp a pattern over it.
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Amber Truett:
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Angie Dirkmaat:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- This was a fun experiment, Angie! Nice job!
- There is a Match color dialog in the Image > Adjustments menu that will help you blend your car layer with the background colors. Actually, there are several ways you can also do that.
- Drop shadows on text aren't as clean and crisp as using a stroke - but it works.
- You can separate a drop shadow effect into its own layer and then modify the shadow. After you've added a drop shadow to a layer, right mouse button click on the words "drop shadow" and choose "create layer" from the pop-up menu.
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Aprel Mendenhall:
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Bei Xie:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- Great job cutting the dog from its background and placing it in three other photos.
- I thought your white frames looked interesting
- You can actually create a frame and matte in Photoshop.
- I used the crop tool to add more canvas to your exhibit and moved the three images into position
- Then I colored the background layer that beige color. I then cut the photo areas out of the background and added a bevel and emboss Fx to create the matte look.
- Then I created a new layer, went to the filter menu > render > picture frame. That created a frame on that new layer, and I then did a free transform to make it fit where I wanted it.
- I used the crop tool to add more canvas to your exhibit and moved the three images into position
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Brandon "Don" Evans:
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Brinley Adams:
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Camille Nelson:
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What feels good about this design?
- Good job pulling the girl from her background and placing her in this one.
- I would work the text a bit more.
- Idea: Try a more interesting frame for the text.
- Use select and mask on the girl's hair. (By the way, the new hair button in Photoshop's 2021 select and mask is pretty awesome!)
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Christianna Miles:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- I love the little playful kitten you cut from its background and added to this one. Well done!
- The hardest part of doing what you did is matching color.
- Turn off the drop shadow Fx. Instead, use the burn tool (around 30% opacity) to create a darker shadow spot on the limb.
- Use a curves adjustment layer to match the kitten's color to that of the background image.
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Darius Tonachio:
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Ean Donehey:
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Elizabeth Oliver:
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What feels good about this design?
- Nice work cutting out the girl from her background and placing her on a new background
- Nice job on the text, too!
- You have to consider light. She's standing in a warm, orange light. So I added a selective color adjustment layer to warm those cool colors into the orange range. Then I added a levels adjustment layer to brighten her up as if she's standing in that light.
- The shadows on her face and arms are on the left, so I moved the drop shadow there, too.
- Part of that wooden pole she's holding on to falls into purple light, so I added that in a layer set to color blending mode.
- Then there were some old background places in her hair that were showing. To fix that...
- I made her a selection of marching ants by Command-Clicking (CTRL-clicking) on her thumbnail picture in the layers panel.
- Then I clicked on the add mask button at the bottom of the layers panel.
- I got my quick select tool and clicked on "Select and Mask" in the options bar.
- I used the refine edge brush in select and mask, and then clicked "decontaminate colors" in the output settings.
- Then I made sure it was going to give me a new layer with layer mask, and clicked OK.
- I moved the text closer to her. Proximity.
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Ian Theler:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- This is a great design, Ian. You've cut the model out well.
- Strong center alignment
- The background images of different locales doesn't come across too well as travel. Perhaps one scene might work better. Or something a bit more abstract like a road map.
- Her blond head kind of disappears.
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Jaiden Schrubb:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- You've done a wonderful job cutting the cosplay model out and putting her against this cherry blossom background. Well done!
- I would work on her hair a bit more. Command or CTRL click on her layer to get her selected, then add a mask. With the mask selected, get a selection tool and click on the select and mask button. The new 2021 Photoshop has a hair button - click on that. Then click on decontaminate colors in the output settings. For output, choose new layer with mask, and then click OK.
- Idea: soften the hard edge of the rectangle in the background to match the softly blurred pink designs.
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Jenny Taylor:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- Good work on masking out the giraffe, Jenny.
- I'd think of other backgrounds you could place this giraffe on. The possibilities are endless!
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Jordan Rule:
What feels good about this design?
What feels good about this design?
- Excellent job cutting the girl out of her background and placing her in a school setting
- Good color scheme going in this design.
- The bottom two elements on the left need to stand out more. See my feedback image for one way to do that with a strong right alignment.
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Kendrick Schut:
What feels good about this design?
Instructor idea...use a gradient map adjustment layer
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Instructor idea...combine images and make a painting out of it. Here I used Filter > Filter Gallery > Cutout and Filter > Stylize > Oil Paint
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Nicholas "Nick" Spinelli:
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Nikki Jeffs:
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Rebecca "Becca" Jeppson:
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Robert Summers:
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