Eadweard Muybridge

Photographer Eadweard Muybridge was born in Surrey, England on April 9, 1830. His large images of Yosemite Valley were the image that bought him fame.

He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name. Although he immigrated to the United States as a young man, he remained obscure until 1868 when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley in  California made him world famous. 

Muybridge's experiments in photographing motion began in 1872, when the railroad magnate Leland Stanford hired him to prove that during a particular moment in a trotting horse, all four legs are simultaneously off the ground. His first efforts were unsuccessful because his camera didn't have a fast enough shutter. 

After having a break when he was acquitted for his wife's lovers murder he resumed his experiments in 1877 in motion photography, using a battery of from 12 to 24 cameras and a special shutter he developed that gave an exposure of 21000 of a second. The photographic results were good enough to prove Stanford's theory. 

Transforming a Picture.

To transform the image you have to click on 'edit' and then 'Transform' and I chose to do 'warp'. 

This is the image before warping.

The grid lines allow you to see how you're warping the image and dots allow you to warp it. 

The image has now been pulled upwards on the left hand side giving the illusion of a bank that wasn't there before.

Brightness and Contrast.

This is the original image that we are going to alter the lighting levels in. 

To change it, go to 'image' then 'adjustments' and 'Brightness/Contrast' 

It gives you a box where you move the arrows to alter either the brightness of the contrast. 

The image has been brightened and the contrast has been lowered so as the sky looks brighter and the trees look darker when next to each other.

The image has been made darker on both brightness and contrast  and the overall image looks a lot darker the it should.

On this image, both brightness and contrast are on maximum and it gives the sky an unusual brightness compared to the darkness of the trees.

Quick Mask Mode.

Quick mask mode shows you where you have selected so as you can get a more accurate image as you're closer to the lines. 

This is a foreground image on a separate layer to the background image so as we can edit it.

To get quick mask mode you select the image and press the very bottom button on the toolbar and you can change the colour of the mask as well as the opacity. 

The mask has showed the areas that are and aren't selected and by choosing the eraser tool you can get closer to the lines of the subject which will paint them red and deselect them. 

I allows you to get closer so as the image is more accurate.

After you have erased all of the photo that we don't need you can take off the mask so as you can carry on editing the picture.

After you have removed the mask it shows the subject selected within the image.

You can copy the image by going on 'edit' and then 'copy' and then 'edit' 'paste' it so as you have a copy and then delete the original image as you now have the subject that you want without all of the unwanted parts in it.  

This is what we are left with and we can resize and move the image to where we want. 

When you have finished moving and resizing to subject you can zoom out to see how the placing looks.

This is the final placement of the subject.

Lasso and Move Tool.

This image will be the background of the image and is opened in photoshop on layer 1.

This image will be edited on to the the foreground of the image, opened in the same work space as the background but on a separate layer. 

The foreground image has now been sized and placed where i want it to be, it just needs to be cut around to remove the bits that aren't needed.

So as we get the image as close to perfect as possible, we zoom in so as the lasso tool will be closer to the edge.

The best lasso to go around the curved line of the balloons is the magnetic lasso as it will hold on to the lines and get rid of the rest.

After the lasso has gone round all of the subject it can be moved away from the rest we don't need and that is deleted so we are left with the subject that we want.

This can be moved in to place and the lines can be tidied up and blurred so as it looks as though it should be part of the picture. 

This is how the image looks when it has been tidied up.

Adding Colour

I am going to change the colour of the rose from its original colour of pink to blue. To do this I first need to add a new blank layer over the top of the image so as I can paint on to that and not the original image.

Here you can see I have 2 layers, the blank one is over the top of the image.

Im choosing to first desaturate the image so it will show up a better colour. Also, the background will be greyscale with no colour.

Here is the desaturated image.

I then choose the paintbrush tool with the colour in the small box at the bottom. 

After painting over the rose on the top layer this is what I'm left with. 

To get the image to look like a rose again we need to overlay the layers, which is done by clicking on the layers box and choosing 'overlay'.

This is the image that we are left with afterwards.

Vignette Effect.

A blank layer is needed to be on top of the image so as the vignette has it's own layer. 

You now have 2 layers and this box says that the blank layer is above the background layer which is what we're looking for. 

Choosing the type of brush is important as it needs to be soft edged to give the right effect. 

This is the image before anything has been applied to the image. 

By pressing the 'control' button  and holding down while you pain, it allows you to paint a straight line down all of the images sides.

To make it so as the lines are less obvious and are faded, you have to apply a Gaussian Blur to the layer that the bordering is on.

This is how you choose how blurred the black lines are. The higher the number is, the blurrier the lines will be. 

This is the image with a 90.0 pixel blur, however the lines are still very bold.

This is the image with a 250.0 Pixel blur so the lines are very faded but attention is still drawn to the center of the image.

Selective Black and White.

First you have to make a copy of the original image on its own layer.

This gives you 2 layers with exactly the same image on.

The top layer is changed in to black and white by using the channel mixer tool. 

To get the colour to come through the black and white layer the eraser tool has to be used, so it is selected.

From there the size of the brush and hardness of the edges can be changed so as to get the best result off the image. 

In this image the design on the back of the jacket has been erased off the top layer so as the colour layer can be seen through the layer.