Author Archives: sydneysantoemma

This project focused on making advanced mask selections. To bring in the the clouds I placed embedded the image on to the background. Next I created a layer mask and uncovered the background from the clouds. Next I opened the girl with the umbrella and used the quick selection tool to select her. Following that,Continue reading “Sunny Beach House”

The sky and the beach were two different images. First I place embeded the cloudy sky on to the scene. Next I created a layer mask and used the brush tool to erase the sky from the beach scene.

In order to create this, I used a layer mask. By making the brush larger I was able to erase the fruit from Mr. Job’s face and create a fading look between his forehead and fruit.

The file opened up with this puppy and a pair of wings on to the background image as well. In order to cut the wings, I created a layer mask and selected one side of the wing. I traced out the wing, copy and pasted the selection and adjusted the size to fit on toContinue reading “Puppy with Wings”

To begin, I found a space background and adjusted the image by changing its size to a 12×12, 150 ppi and RGB. To fill in the white on the bottom and the top of the image, I used the clone stamp. In order to select the images, I either used the elliptical marquee to achieveContinue reading “2 Composition Designs”

This beach scene started off just as a blue sky background, with a grassy beach scene. First I used the clone stamping tool to extend the sky and sand over the white border at the top and the bottom of the image. Next, I place embedded the image of a cloudy sky and rasterized. AfterContinue reading “Beach Scene 2”

I began by choosing 3 landscape images and imported them to photoshop. I cropped each image to fit the 12×4 inch canvas size, then rasterized each photo so I could crop each image. First I adjusted the hue and saturation to each of the images along with contrast and brightness. In the sunset image IContinue reading “Altered Images 2”

Hi! My name is Sydney Santoemma, and I am from North Haven, Connecticut. At North Haven High I was enrolled in 3 years of photography including 1 year of AP Photography, in which my portfolio received a 5. I am starting my freshman year at Quinnipiac University. My major is currently communications undecided. I amContinue reading “About Me”

This photo once started out at 3 separate photos. First, the images were opened up in photoshop. Next, the pixel sizes were all changed to 150. After, they were layered on top of each other and used canvas size to fix the measurements. Following that, the photographs were transformed and spaced out with a .25Continue reading “Altered Image”

Here is a photograph I took from my favorite holiday The Fourth Of July this past year!