Location Restoration/Advanced Composite
Goal
Use painting tools as taught in class to complete a cohesive design.
Use adjustment layers for contrast & color control. Create a flexible layer setup.
Procedure
Take a photo of a building, location, urban area, etc. that is run-down, strewn with graffiti, litter, etc and in obvious need of beautification. Use your own photograph.
Put your photo through two phases of production in Photoshop to improve on it:
1. Use the cloning, healing, color correction and other retouching techniques covered in the class to remove or fix problems in the photo. For example, get rid of trash from the sidewalk, remove power lines from the sky, remove unwanted elements from the photo.
2. Using selections, layers, color correction and compositing techniques such as masks, ADD new elements to the location to IMPROVE on it. For example, as some new landscaping to an area that has none. Add a new beautiful sky to an image that has a drab one.
The idea is to improve and make the original location better than it is in
reality. Try and make your composition as convincing as possible.
