Using the 'Warming' filter

Warming an image is a fairly easy process. First of all I opened my image in photoshop. I then clicked on the adjustment layer in the layers pallet. I then clicked on 'photo filter' and the filter box appeared. I then made sure it was on the 'warming' filter and the colour was set to a warm colour like orange. I then adjusted the density of the filter, and when I was happy with what it looked like I applied the filter.

 

 The image with warming filter applied.

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle is a photographer who aslo directs music videos and advertisements. He uses colour really well, and makes all of his photographs as bright and visually appealing as possible. Most of his images are digitally enhanced using photoshop to achieve these bright, bold colours. Using these bright, vivid colours drag you into the picture and make you study it. Many of his photographs are surreal and different. for example the image below where the massive burger has 'fallen' onto he woman would have been edited in photoshop where he can play around with the colours make the image seem more surreal.

Colour Variations

Above you can see the before and after of the editing process while i was using the colour variations tool.

I changes the midtones, shadows, highlights and saturation to get the colours to be bright and vibrant.

This is the final image. The colours are bright and warm. you can 'feel' the sunlight in the photo.

Monochrome editing

This is my origional image.

To get the image to look like this I changed the saturation to -100 to make the image black and white. I then changed the contrast to create some interesting shapes and shades. Finally I inverted the image to change everything that was white to black and everything that was black to white.

I then used the colourize option to create this image. To do this I clicked on the colourize box and moved the slider to a positition that gave me a colour that I liked. I like the darkness in the clouds and the water in this image.

This is the hue/saturation option box. which shows how I made the image black and white. Also in this image is the invert option. This shows you how I inverted the image.

Colourizing and using hue/saturation

This is the origional image. its a bit dull so I used the hue/saturation and colourize tools to make it better.

This is the first edited image. I decided to make the water more interesting by changing the colour to something abnormal, but not too wierd, so purple was the best choice. Although I think it looks a little better I think there are now to many colours in the photo.To change the colour of just the water I used the lasso tool to select the area of water and created a new layer containing just the water. I then went onto the  hue/saturation option and turned it to 'colourize' this allowed me to turn the water to many colours of the spectrum by moving the slider left and right to get the desired colour, then using saturation I could decide how vivid I wanted the selected colour.

Here I  have made everything black and white,except for the water. I did this by selecting the background layer and moving the saturation slider all the way to the left.  This focusses attention to the water. I like this picture because its different, but I do think the purple is too differerent.

Here is the same image again but with the water with a more normal bluey colour, rather than an extravagant purple.

image edit

Above is the origional image. It is very washed out and over exposed. Below the origional is the edited image. I edited the image by cropping it to make the composition better and I adjusted the colours using the levels tool. I also adjusted the brightness and contrast a little. I think the edited image looks alot better because the colours are more vibrant and it is not to over or under exposed.

Levels

Above is the origional cropped image and below is the edited version. to get the colours in the sky brighter and to look nicer i used the levels tool to adjust the colour, brightness and contrast.

1. The histogram is a graph that shows you the amount of pixels of each colour in the picture, and it shows RGB(red, green, blue)

2. An under exposed image is where the image is to dark. An overexposed image is where there is too much light in the photo. a correctly exposed image is where there is the correct amount of light in the photo. also the histogram to the left of the image is spread out all over the graph.

3.A high key image is when the image is mostly made of white and a low key image is where the image is made of mostly black pixels.

4. Levels can improve the the vividness of the colours and make the image less washed out

5. I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the sky to change the levels. you could also use the magic wand tool or the lasso tool.

Cropping

Above is the origional image with the cropped image below. To crop it I used the crop tool to select the part of the photo I want. I decided to get rid of the blurry dark part of the picture in the foreground.