The document describes three photo editing experiments using tools in Photoshop. In the first experiment, the author used the blur tool to blur out surrounding trees and focus attention on bears in the photo. In the second experiment, tools like the dodge tool, sharpen tool and blur tool were used to make a photo of a lion and cat look brighter, more sketchy and comical. In the third experiment, the dodge tool was used to brighten a photo of birds and the blur tool was used to slightly blur surrounding grass and bushes to focus on the birds.

1. Experiments
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2. Process
The difference between both photos is
an effect called Rack Focus. I used the
Blur Tool and this blurs out stuff in the
picture. In this photo I blurred out the
trees surrounding the bears and shows
that they are the main part of the
photo. With rack focus there is more
attention now to the bears because
you can barely see the trees or the
features of the trees.
I added a slight bit of brightness to it to
make the bears stand out a bit more.

3. Process
The difference between both photos are the
effects used to make it look brighter, more
sketchy and comical. I used the tools; dodge
tool, sharpen tool and blur tool. The dodge tool
as said before makes parts of the picture
brighter and make it have a better look. The
blur tool does the obvious and blurs out certain
things in the picture depends what you blur.
Finally the sharpen tool is a tool that it used on
the lion and cat. It changes from the original to
the edited in a comical and sketchy fashion.
The edited photo looks better than the original
because it looks brighter and looks like
something is above it, showing no light at the
front of the photo.

4. Process
The difference between both photos is that
I've used to effects and they are both called
rack focus and dodge tool. The rack focus is
used with the blur tool and the dodge tool
makes things brighter. From the original
photo it’s dark and dull, the dodge tool
brings the brightness of the picture up and
looks better and shows off the birds features
better. The rack focus is slightly used on the
grass and the bushes in the top left. I didn’t
use it too much because the surroundings
are nice and don’t need to be left out of the
picture or just blurred out.

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
– In my final product I will use effects on Photoshop to make my pictures better
or change it if something wrong on the photo. For example I’ll use the effect
rack focus to blur out some of the parts in the picture. I will also use the tool
called the dodge tool which adds brightness to the picture if my final
photographs are too dark. If I take a picture that isn’t good enough, hopefully I
can edit it so it looks better. For example if it’s dark and it’s fuzzy hopefully
some kind of tool can change it so it doesn't have that feature in the photo.
– When I take photos, I will take it more than once just in case it’s blurry or
doesn’t look good enough as the others that I took.