Here in this photo I will remove a few of the objects by using photoshop. An easy and good way to remove any buildings or isolate any docks that you do not want is to use is by using the quick mask mode. Quick mask mode is another way to select object without using any magic wand or lasso, but instead you can use the paint brush. This is useful because when lasso and magic wand tools do not work, the quick mask will most likely solve the problem. When using quick mask you can get finer selections by changing the size or hardness/softness of the brush. This allows for better selection for small and close object. Also you can select many objects at once.   But in this photo i will remove a few of the buildings along with some rooftops and also one of the docks.

For my VC:265 class i had to take a picture of myself and have it redone in photoshop. To clean up my photo i used some color methods and lighting/darkness adjustments. When I started I had to brighten up my entire photo so I used the brightness under adjustments to make the image clearer. Overall to my picture i added some blue. I did a little bit up this my using hue, and color balance under adjustments from image. Then to really get the effect of natural blue sunlight reflection I used the photo filter to use and underwater affect. To bring out the red in the pillow to the right of me I had isolate it and so did this by using a magnetic lasso tool. After that i then went in and added some red hue to it and changed along with the midtones-shadows-highlights. I also did the same thing with my black shirt. I had to isolate my shirt and add in a darker tone.

color correction methods

Here I color corrected a couple of mangos and put it behind a cutting board which was also color corrected, and did this by using a few Photoshop methods. First with the mangos that I found on Flicker.com which is a good site for photos. When in PS i used the magnetic lasso tool to go around the three mangos that I wanted. After that I used an inverse selection tool to get rid of the back round and just leave my three mangos i wanted. Then that is when the adjusting of the colors started to begin. For brightness/contrast, levels, curves, and exposure all I did was just a little bit of tweaking in each of these sections. The brightness helped along with the curves to get a my color started some. Also under exposure I liked the gamma correction because it helped me bring out my green in my fruit. When using Vibrance, Hue/saturation, and color balance these were the methods to really polish my mango. Vibrance was useful, and used a lot of it because it really brought my fruit to life. Hue/saturation was good for adding more color of red and and add some light to my fruit. Last but not least color balance was the finishing touch on the mango were i got to bring out even more red and also yellow to really make my fruit look tropical.

To make my fruit look presentable I wanted to find something that had some relation to it so I decided to put in on a cutting board. The first step I did in PS was to get rid my background and only keep my cutting board. To this this I simply used the polygonal lasso tool to go around the cutting board and again did an inverse tool. Next was to fill up my page with the cutting board so i used free transform to scale it and keep the size proportional. Many of the same methods where used besides hue/saturation and color balance, because color was not need for the cutting board. The original cutting board was dull so I decided to brighten.