A Day in The Life of a Mercy Student

     During the past few classes we have been talking about photo shop and all of the different things that you are able to do.  One of the major things that we have been talking about is the tools that you can use to make your pictures better from the beginning. Also, we learned how to make a collage in photo shop and ways to shape your picture so you are able to make it look nice and fit pictures on the paper. We had to think back to what we learned about the elements of photography so that the pictures we were taking would look superb. A few of the elements that I used while taking my pictures were balance, lines, framing, and angle.  

     In making my collage I edited each of my pictures in some way to make them look better or give them a different affect. In each of my pictures I cropped out everything that was not needed and just added space to the picture. Also, some of my pictures were turned the wrong way so I had to rotate them, so that they were facing the right way. When you take a picture there may not be enough light in the background, but in photo shop you can fix that by just brightening the picture. A picture may have too much light in it and problems like this can be corrected or edited in photo shop. I had to darken one of my pictures because the lighting was so bright and it was causing you not to see the picture as clear. I then changed one of my pictures to black and white just to give it a new color. Black and white does not do much to the picture; however, it just changed the colors of the picture to a subtle black and white. Then one last thing that I did was change the perspective of one of the pictures. When you change the perspective of the picture it gives the picture a new shape and can make it look like it is popping out. There are many more things that you can do to a picture but those are only a few that I chose.