Photoshopping!!!

In the following series of photos I have enhanced and re-created each, one of my photo of the everyday. I chose this photo in particular as it seemed humorous, to add text to such a photo. Further more, it allows the viewer to see the image in a whole new way. This text insanity came from the influence of Jim Goldburg, Barbra Kruger. These two photographers liked to add text to their photos via the person in the photo or rather writing on the photo itself. In these photos I have used photoshop to do varius editing techniques...

...the aim of which I was following in the process of my photo text, was simply to allow the viewer to think differently about the image being displayed. The image I chose as you can see below is poo!-on he pavement. The picture on its own is very clear, however due to the object being displayed the audience is focused on it and, attention is drown away from everything else in the photo. Taking this into account I decided to add text would do the opposite. 

Before inserting this text I would have to learn how to add the text. The process was quite simple and straight forward. I started off by geting my picture, then I went on by clicking the text symbol and the moving the cursor across the desktop and then clicking on the destination in which I wished to place the text. After typing in the words I wanted to type in i decided to add effects to make it stand out and look good...

...These included Drop shadow, inner shadow, outer and inner glow, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay, pattern overlay, satin and stoke. 

This is the final outcome. The sentence says "the journey can only be fulfilled once one has relieved ones self...
...flush out the bad stuff"

After looking at this master pice I decided i would try again however with a small caption rather the a sentence. I first experimented with the photo this included the brightness in terms of "levels". 

I also experimented with the colour as an attempt to make the poo look a little bit more off putting. like a mixture of poo and diarrhea. To do this i experimentd with the hues in order to get a yellow effect. this proved to be very effective.

The only thing missing was the caption. The idea was easy to think of as it came from the picture itself. To do the text however wasn't as simple as the first time, however it wasn't to difficult.

I had to first select the text layer. following this i had to select filter and from this i then selected liquify.  and following this was stretching of the text. following this was effects (inner glow, colour overlay, satin).

The second final outcome above! GROSS!