Final Piece Photos

Process for Golden Bus

Original file

I wanted a cross section of the bus so I cropped using the crop tool.

Once cropped, I got on to selecting the red of the bus. I used Polygonal Lasso and Magnetic Lasso tool for this.

Once I selected the red of the bus, I went to layers adjustments and desaturated the red on the bus.

Going on Layers Effects, I changed the colour of the bus to Gold, using Colour Overlay on a Colour Burn setting.

To increase the brightness of the bus, I adjusted the levels of the bus.

This is the final product

Numero uno, I start with duplicating the background, I don't want to ruin the original photo.

I began with cropping the photo using the crop tool

Once cropped, I got onto selecting the the traffic light using the magic wand tool. I used other tools such as the lasso tool to refine the selection.

Once I selected the traffic light, I inverted the selection as I wanted to focus on editing the background.

I didn't want a background with buildings in it, favouring a clear blue sky. For this, I used the cloning stamp tool which is the best tool for this job. I had to hold the ALT key and click on the part of the photo I wanted to clone onto another part of the photo. The photo above shows the outcome of this.

 The selection path came in handy as it made sure I didn't clone over the traffic light as you can see.

A common occurrence in cloning is that eventually you end up stamping something you didn't originally choose to clone. This is because when you clone, the part that you choose originally deviates as you stamp in different positions on the photo. To resolve this, you simply reselect your clone stamp by holding ALT and clicking.

Eventually, This is how the photo looks without the building in the way, just pure clear sky.

My selection path was obviously shabby and this was not part of the traffic light, it just happened to be black as well which the magic wand tool interpreted as part of the traffic light, as did I at the time.

Unhappy with this, I decided to crop my photo once more.

Once I finalised the composition, I worked on changing the colour of the green man. To do this, I went on Image > Adjustments > Selective Color. Here I chose to manipulate cyan colours, changing the values of CMY and black. This resulted in the green man turning blue.

I also changed the CMY values for greens and blues to enhance the saturation of blue.

I flipped that canvas vertically and this is the end product.

Editing process for Red man Walks

This is the original photo

Like all photos, when editing you should always duplicate the layer of the original photo 'background' to prevent compromising of the original file.

I decided that I wanted a midshot of the green man and wanted to crop the photo. To do this I used the Crop Tool (C).

This is the photo cropped.

I decided that I wanted to increase the colour of the green man and to do so, I had to select him and the surrounding green colour by using the selection tools, Quick Selection tool and Lasso Tool.

Once selected, I went to Image >Adjustments > Vibrance and set to increase the vibrance and saturation. As you can see, there is a visible difference compared to the original vibrance and saturation.

As I am going to use the selection later, in case I could lose it, I decided to right click and save the selection.

I wanted to paste another green man onto the top section of the crossing light sign so I copied the selection.

I pasted the selection and this is how it looks on the workspace and in my layers palette.

Moving the newly pasted object, I placed it on the other section of the traffic light. Here my layers palette shows the two green men.

Next, I wanted to combine the two green men into a selection so I saved the selection of the second green man.

After having both selections saved, right clicking the selection, going to Load Selection, I added my original selection to the current selection.

I wanted to select everything outside the green men, the background. To do this, I simply pressed Shift + Apple + I.

I wanted to give the background a little posterized effect so I went to Image > Adjustments > Posterize. I input a Posterization level of 12 as I still wanted the detail of a building top visible.

I wanted to desaturate the background by a little, to give an aged sort of look but not too ancient so I changed the value to -45 so there would still be visible colour.

I wanted to change the top green man to a red man and to do this, I went back to the selection of the green man, went to Hue/Saturation in Image Adjustments and changed the Hue to red.

And here is the final product.