Exercise 1

This is the part of photoshop that i've been longing to learn so i really hope i pulled off something atleast.


This was the original picture,and please observe that i do look good already hehehe!

I place the image into photoshop and had to scale it down into a 640 x 480 resolution document

I first used a curves adjustment to brighten up the image: Image>Curves

Then i had some white spots on my face(I can't believe i just said that)...but anyway i used the spot healing brush to take care of those Yeah!!!

 I then used the Clone stamp tool to remove those massive eyes bags below my eyes and also clear some of the yellow in my eyes

I then used the dodge tool to brighten up my eyes a little.

Lastly using the quick selection tool to select the red parts of my shirt,i then applied a hue and Saturation adjustment to change the colur of the shirt.

I went ahead to add to change the background of the image because it looked kinda dull, i extracted myself from the background using the quick selection tool.

then on a new layer i added a gradient and used a brush pack called winter breeze to add the brush strokes  onto the background.

And so this how i look:

BEFORE

 

AND

AFTER