ILP #1

For ILP #1, I did a Lynda.com tutorial. I did training on Photoshop filters for photography. I have the entirety of the Adobe suite on my laptop from being a high school yearbook editor, but only have a limited experience with each of the programs. I’m really interested in Photoshop and Illustrator for digital art purposes; however, with the time I had for this project, and because of my lack of a drawing tablet to use, I figured photography filters was my next biggest interest. Everyone likes being able to post beautiful photos on social media, but not everyone has the money for a professional photographer, or even a high quality camera. So, with some Photoshop skills, maybe we can get the next best thing.

This Lynda tutorial dealt mostly with the importance of smart filters when editing photos in photoshop. Smart filters allow you to try out filters without having to re-upload the photo over and over again when you don’t like the way the filter turned out. When converting a photo into “smart object,” every photo adjustment creates a separate layer without you having to remember to copy the original photo each and every time.

Honestly, I felt that my overall Photoshop skills were far too limited to completely follow all of the tutorial completely. I also noticed that he was working with a newer updated Mac version, so I couldn't even find some of the tools he was using. Still, with the aid of the smart filters, I was able to play around with the filters enough to edit two photos in ways that I liked. I really wanted to enjoy this tutorial video more than I did, but I found following along to be pretty hard, as well as searching through subject areas on the overall website to be sort of tricky. It was hard to gauge background knowledge needed for each video until too late, usually.


With these two photos, I wanted to sharpen the original on the left to make it look like it was in focus. However, My skills were too limited to do that without overly pixelating the entire photo. So, instead, I decided to add a little bit more motion to it to make it seem more intentional of a blur, as well as editing the colors and contrast to make it a bit more artisitic and aesthetic. 



For these two, I focused on brightening the photo overall and editing the color to make it a bit more dramatic and fun. Whereas the other set of photos focused on noise reduction, sharpening, and contrasts, for this one I focused on color levels, saturation, and camera flare effects. 



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