It’s been about 10 months since I’ve graduated from my New Media Arts course. Prior to taking the course, I never thought about venturing into this field and barely ever touched any projects that dealt with any medium outside of music, save for the occasional graphic design, photography, video, etc.. for personal use. Nothing on a big scale. After taking the course though, I realized that I do enjoy creating many things outside of music. But because I got such a late start on a structured way of learning this material, I’m still picking up a few tricks as I go, months post-graduation.
One of these things is Photoshop. I’ve always used Photoshop for touching up my work, so it’s nothing new to me knowing that Photoshop can really enhance visuals. I’m definitely no slouch with it, but going through the interface the other day, I realized how much there was that I didn’t know about or even ever cared about learning. So I took the time to just fool around a bit and tricked out a lot of my old work. There has to be more to Photoshop than just “upping the brightness/contrast level” right?..
Anyways, here are the results – originals on the left…
Of course getting an original shot as close to the end result would be the ideal, but it’s also important for me to be able to judge the initial visuals and know immediately what I can do with it post-edit – especially if it will help bring home the meaning of the piece.
