Project 4 - Vincent Phan

For the filters assignment, I chose a picture of a colorful (and delicious) plate of sushi roll. I played around with some of the filters, but the one that looked best for this image was smart sharpen, as it brought out the smaller details of the sushi roll. In addition to the smart sharpen filter, I also duplicated the layer and applied a gaussian blur and set the layer style to overlay, which helped in enhancing the wood grain.

My layer composition is a unicorn in a meadow with a rainbow in the sky (it was the only idea I could think of). I took three images off of google to use in this project:



I used content-aware scale on the meadow; the scaling seemed to have focused more on the meadow, and squeezed out the sky. In the unicorn image, I tried to separate the background using the mask palette. It didn't turn out so well, so I resorted to using the magic wand + eraser. I didn't like the sky in the meadow image, so I used a mask to get rid it, and placed the beach image behind the meadow layer. I added a rainbow by creating a new layer and made a rainbow patterned gradient. I then warped & distorted the layer to transform it into an arc and also give it a 3D feel. All the layers were attached to a clipping mask and fitted inside a rounded rectangle. Lastly, I added text with gradient effect and drop shadow.