2. Original picture I am recreating
I pasted my chosen photo out of all my shots I thought
was best into Photoshop so I could start my editing. I am
going to be trying to create the same black and white
effect and show the same shadows and focuses in my
recreation. I need to pick out the lightness of my mum
and then the duller background. First I used the
brightness and contrast effect on my recreation to get the
bright glow before I added black and white effects.
3. Next I changed I used an effect called hue
and saturation. This made my picture black
and white. So now I can play around with
the kind of black and white I want it to be.
Then I used the effect curves which brought out
the darker colours to make them darker but kept
the white of my skin still bright like in the original.
4. I then used an effect called shadows and highlights which made my
picture brighter in some areas and changed the colour of black and
white my picture was.
I used an effect called exposure to
make my hair and dress darker like
the original.
5. I used a tool called the burn tool which
made the background trees and bushes
darker like in the original picture.
Then I copied the bushes and trees I had used
the burn tool on with the clone stamp so that
the trees and bushes would fill in the white open
sky and be filled like the original.
6. Then I used the marquee tool to select
a certain part of my picture so that I
could add an effect and it would only
be applied to this highlighted part.
The effect I used on the selected area was Gaussian blur
which I think worked really well and gave my recreation
the same look the original picture had.
Then I added some more brightness and contrast
to my picture so that the background I just blurred
would look lighter like the original.
7. Then I placed both pictures on anew Photoshop document. I
put the original on top and my recreation on the bottom.
Then I made both pictures as close to the same size as I could.
Then I rotated my recreation below the original so that it
would create my overall mirroring effect. The recreation now
looks like it’s the reflection of the original.
