finalcut pro, step by step- photo editing

To begin with my project, i went around the house and took photos of things i needed.

I imported them into Photoshop and used a simple process. I turned the photos black and white but didn't change any setting. I duplicated the layer and changed the contrast of the image to the maximum. I then changed the layer mode to overlay. 

On some photos i had to use the clone tool to "clean up" the image. This is a basic photo-manipulation skill.

For some photos i had to do a little bit more complex photo-manipulation. For this one (above) i had to recreate the scene. So I took a photo of my kitchen, the dog bed and the dog separately. I actually had too because i don't think I'd be able to make an old grumpy dog cooperate. 

So first i worked on the the photo of the kitchen being the main part of the image. I changed the image to black and white, cleaned up the photo with the clone tool, and then altered the contrast. 

I then did the same changes to the dog bed, but for that photo, i flattened the image. With the lasso tool, i cut out the dog bed and pasted it onto the kitchen photo.

Then i had to use the warp tool, perspective tool, and distort tool too make the dog bed fit into the space where it is now.

For my dog i did a similar thing to what i did with dog bed but for her, i simply placed on the photo but i didn't change anything else. I also used the burn and dodge tool to make her look more like an old english.  With the smudge tool, i smudged the edge of her fur to recreate the effect that the lasso tool hand destroyed. 

The photos i scanned in were very dark so i had to lighten them with the brightness tool. Apart from that i used the same method as the other photos. 

I scanned them in at 300dpi and in colour, because when my scanner scans in black and white it tend to change the dark thing into black and the light thing into light. 

For this image i simply added a white border around my mom with the brush tool. As this is an old photo, i did that to so who is speaking but hint at the idea that she isn't there now.  I used this photo because we are doing a family story so i used a photo of my family. I also left it in colour because it is something i remember. I've worked on the theory that the black and white images are things that i can't remember and the colour are the things i do.