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This picture wasn't originally black and white, it was in color, to be specific it was a sunset so it was orange with shades of yellow and the sky was light blue, it was beautiful. But it seemed to give of the exact vibe of the picture and i like mystery so i decided to make it black and white. I went to Image> Adjustments and changed the black and white settings, the colors i changed were, The yellows which i made brighter, the green's which i made darker and the Cryans which i also made lighter. I also made the blues a little bit darker and decreased the Magenta. I think it gives off an old look, which i was going for. This is the result.

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I took this at my friends house, whilst we was having a party. I just really liked this picture, especially the shoes, they're one of my favorites. I went to Image> Adjustments then I changed the hue, the saturation and the lightness. I decreased the hue to -155, the saturation to -40 and the lightness to -23. Which gave it a blue kind of affect. The light where the shoes are is really bright because i increased the exposure to +2.55 and decreased the offset to -0.0368 and the Gamma i just left it how it was.

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This was a photo i took at 6am in the morning after going out for my friends birthday, me and one of my friends hadn't slept and watched the sunrise. This picture, personally says a lot to me and has a lot of memories when i look at it. I increased the yellows and the blues to +41, then i decreased the Magenta colors to -2. Then I decreased the cyan colors to -30. The tone balance it was focused was on midtones. This is how it came out in the end.

Self Portrait

I did the exact same things as I did on my "Scanned Rave" picture. Only I used black and white tone for this one, the tones that I changed were: The red which I moved to 300%, The yellows to 272%, The Greens to 40%, The Cyans to 60%, The blues to 107% and the magenta's to 300% and then I saved it. But in order for it to upload onto blogger I have to change the resolution as mentioned on the "Scanned rave" from 300 to 72 pixels and then save it as a JPEG, not a Photoshop document.

Improvements

I started off with changing the background color from a really light grey to the darkest shade of black, so I could see what font and color of the font would work well with the background. Although it's black and it goes with any color, it's better to be safe. So after changing the background color I changed the font 'Trebuchet' to 'Times New Roman' and 'Italic' to give a different feeling, a change of font always helps. Afterwards I changed the post title color from white to a grey/white tone to bring more of an affect. I like plain and simple things, and I believe that's kind of vibe my page brings. Moving on to the header which I changed from trees in the sunlight to trees in the snow, because it's Winter and I thought id give it the affect of the season we are in. The writing on the header, which is very faint i changed it to a darker tone of grey because the written was nowhere to be seen, it blended in with the header background.

http://gabysphoto.blogspot.com/

• First thing i noticed about this blog was the labels, done very well. I knew as soon as i went onto the page where to go and what to press.
• The thing i didn't like on the blog, was the green background against the burgundy writing and the white header on the top, there is too much color.
• The pictures are very well annotated and i knew exactly what she did with each picture.
• I love how the key words are in a different color from the rest.
• The author experimented with different techniques on one picture which is very good 'cause you can see which technique is the nicest and which goes well with the whole image of the blog.
  

http://natstone16.blogspot.com/?zx=c9cb9f232d546520

• First things first about this blog, the header immediately caught my attention. It's vast, it's out there and it's great. Very interesting to look at.
• The labels are just how they should be.
• The blue should have been a darker color for it to stand out more to catch the eye of the person looking at it.
• I like the way the layout is done apart from the picture with the green cow you can't see the writing, it comes out white. Which means something is wrong with the html. But other than that, i really liked it.