Photoshop Tutorial - Playing in the Sand

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/162976/playing-in-the-sand

I started off with this picture of a beach that i got off the internet.

the point of the tutorial is to be able to add a figure to the beach picture and make it look like a sand sculpture by adjusting the texture and color of the image.

I then found a picture of this statue, cropped the statue out with the magnetic lasso, and pasted it into the beach picture. I used the hue/saturation adjustments to make it closer to the yellow sand of the beach, and also adjusted the background layer to match the statue. 

I got a picture of sand, used the "create clipping mask" function, and changed the blending property to "overlay." I then adjusted the balance, and this is what it looked like.

finally, i blurred and smudged the image a little so that the statue wouldn't stand out as much. I don't think that the picture came out as well as i wanted it to because the statue still doesn't look like it should be part of the picture, but i think i definitely got it to look more sand-like than it did at first. i learned how to use overlay and colorize so it was an interesting learning experience.

art

Lillian Schwartz

Mona/Leo

The picture denotes half of Mona Lisa’s face, and half of Leonardo Da Vinci’s face, connected perfectly at the middle. This particular copy of the artwork was made black and white so that the colors wouldn’t be as distracting, making it easier to compare the two. After reading a bit about the painting, I found out that Schwartz was trying to show that the Mona Lisa could actually be a self portrait of Da Vinci. She used the two pictures to show the distinct similarities between the two faces, which is really intriguing since they are two very different characters – Mona Lisa being a young woman, and Da Vinci being an older man.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

After Picasso

The artwork denotes two faces, one girl and the other one a sort of ambiguous mask looking face. There is an eye in the middle and scattered around the picture are other distorted body parts. I couldn’t really find anything online about this particular artwork, but the colors and techniques used are very interesting. The woman on the left looks like a simple drawing, while the face on the right has color and texture. I think the bright colors connote a very happy vibe, but the actual faces seem indifferent or sad, which is a stark contrast from the vibrant colors used. Really paying attention to the expression on the faces, I feel like the work connotes a depressing vibe, where the girl is trying to mask her sadness and emptiness.   

https://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson9.html