Complications and Successes

The beginning of the photo shoot, Miranda and
Taylor carrying their bags of clothing. 

I went on a photoshoot with my friends Taylor Vaags and Miranda Vlaming. Taylor and I will be working on this project together a lot so we decided that doing a photoshoot together would be fun and also helpful. Miranda came as a extra model. All three of us brought bags of clothing for costume changes and everything, which provided entertainment throughout the shoot! It was nice having Taylor there so that her and I could talk about what modes we were using to take different pictures and it was nice to be able to collaberate with someone during the shoot. We went to Kildonana Park around 3:30pm and didnt end up leaving until 5:30pm. Because of daylight savings, it was getting dark pretty fast so we also needed to move very fast, which we thought might be a bit stressful, but the pictures turned out nicely and we all had a lot of fun.

For using photoshop I am having a bit of troubles. The program I am using is a older version of photoshp (Photoshop CS3) and all the tuturiols I am looking at requires the newer version. Also, Ive heard from some friends of mine that using the newer version of photoshop is also quite a lot easier to use, then the old version that I am using... which is a bit frustrating. At first, Taylor and I talked about splitting the cost and purchasing photoshop together, but it turns out that this program can cost around $600! Which is not what we expected at all. I have an interest in getting the newer photoshop program, but am unsure of how to I will be doing this. I guess for now, I will just have to look at tutorials with the photoshop that I have. 

I  am currently working on one picture from the photoshoot. It is a picture of taylor and miranda together. I love this picture because you can see how happy the two of them are together, and that they love being together which I like to focus on.  The problem with the picture is that our bags of clothing are in the background and it is VERY distracting. It probably doesnt help that the bag is hot pink either...haha. So I figred out how to take the bag out which is something I was very happy about! Here is the before and after shots of the pictures: 

Before, with a very distracting bag in the background 

After, a hot pink bag free picture!

How I did it: 
On the left side of the computer screen there is a bar that is called the toolbox. To remove an object from a picture you go to your tool box and select the stamp tool. Then you hit the alt key on your keyboard and you drag over a part of the picture that you can replace your unwanted object with. For example, I replaced the bag with the path that would have been shown in the picture if the bag was not there. So I dragged my stamp tool over another part of the path in the picture that is shown. Ater you do that you let go of the alt key and click your mouse and drag the stamp over the object you don't want. It looks like you are coloring a picture when you do this step! One problem I had with this is that when I was "colouring" over the object I wanted to remove, was that other part of the picture would start showing up, instead of the path that I had been copying! I found out that you just need to keep repeating the first steps because the stamp tool starts copying other objects in the picture as you move away from the original object that you are copying. Then after your object is removed from the picture, you go to the tool bar and select the healing brush tool and click and hold down the curser over the area that you copied. This tool allows things to blend into their surroundings, looking more natural.

Instagram post 

Being the typical girl teenager, I posted my pictures on instagram. I took two other pictures of Miranda and Taylor that didn't have the bag in the background I edited the pictures in VSCOcam and made the pictures black and white. I loved the way these pictures looked in black and white! So my new goal is to learn how to make black and white pictures on photoshop, so that i can make the picture that i took the bag out of even nicer :) So this picture is not a finished product...yet!

If you want to look at more pictures I took with miranda and taylor, check out my flicker account!
My flickr account

Here is a youtube tutor that helped me out a lot:
Removing unwanted objects