November - Retouching Pictures

Now, i'll be showing you my work on the calendar assignment. For the month November, i chose tarts - fruit tarts to be exact. The programmes i used are Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4.

1.

Original

Final

For this image, i used Layer Mask to select the tarts and change the hue and saturation of the background to a duller shade, making the tarts stand out more.

Also, i selected the strawberries with the Magic Selection tool and changed the vibrance to make the red more pronounced.

2.

Original

Final

This time, i used the Colour Balance tool, Brightness/Contrast tool (easier to use compared to Curves) and Curves to retouch the photo. Once again, the tools are used to manipulate the vibrance of the red raspberries to capture viewers' attention.

3.

As for this last picture, i applied the same Adjustments before, but with different values.

Credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfeasts/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85916641@N00/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellow_stuff/