Hi Mike

So far so good. But I would like to see some 'whole screen' examples to show us how you reached the conclusions. Keep working on independant work and have a great week off.

Mrs B

Changing Moods

This is the photo that I decided to change the mod of. This original has a fairly positive mood due to the brightness of the photo and the blue sky and optimistic whites on the house.
Firstly I made the image black and white the image on 'Enhance' but this had no great effect on the actual mood that the image portrayed other than a neutral one.
I then 'Solarized' the image with a filter so that the image was negative. This gave me the mood that I was looking for as it now looks more intense and unfriendly. The white windows and dark sky look haunting and therefore oppose the of of the original image.

Warming Up Images

I wanted to use this image to practice warming up my photos, giving them a more pleasent mood.

After using the 'Spot Healing Brush' tool to remove any moles or skin imperfections I used 'Hue/Saturation' to warm up the photo. I changed the 'Hue' to -5 to make the skin tone slightly richer as well as slightly adjusting the saturation to -1. The photo now looks warmer as there is more colour to his skin. Slight things such as the colour of his lips could have been adressed while doing, i don't like how they are now pinker. By selecting all of the image except his lips they would have kept their original colour.

Filters With Selection

I took this photo in Tunbridge Wells and thought that it would be an ideal image to change with filters becuase of the different flat panels on the building.

I selected the parts of the photo that i wanted to change with filters using both the 'Magic Wand' tool and 'Magnetic Lasso'. Once the section was selected I experimented with differnt colours made by adding and deducting filters until I was hapopy with the colour i had chosen. If i was unhappy with a colour i simply used 'Undo' (Ctrl + Z) and started again. The use of filters gives this image a Pop-Art feel which i like.