Gradient Map

This photo I changed the opacity and blending mode to bring out some redish color to make it warmer.

For this photo, I changed the opacity, which gives the photo kind of a vintage look.

For this photo, I changed the blending mode, so the colors are fairly similar to the original, but instead of blacks in the shadow, there is a purple-y color and the greens are more vibrant.

Solarisation

With the solarisation, I played around with positive/negative and black & white. I like the black and white ones better than the color ones, but I am not a huge fan of the solarisation look.

Creative Color

For this photo I played around with curves, vibrance and saturation to create a high contrast in the photo.

For this photo, I used a warm photo filter and played around with saturation and curves to and added a vignette to create a vintage look to the photo.



For this photo, I used gaussian blur, a vignette, and adjusted colors to create a pictorialism look.

Text & Image

For this photo, I took a photo of feet covered in sand and enhanced it slightly with Photoshop and then used Illustrator to add the quote "life's a beach and i'm just playing in the sand". Something I think went well with this photo was the way the text curves around the feet and how the quote suits the photo. A challenge I had with this photo was that with the very bright color of the sand and then how dark the shadows were, it was difficult to find a good color for the text that was fairly readable over both the highlights and shadows.

Sharpness

before

after

For editing this photo, I used the high pass filter to make the photo sharper, then the overlay blending mode to make the colors visible again.