A Different Perspective

What I did here was I first converted the picture for smart filters, then went to Filter<Blur<Iris Blur. After that, a pin was added in the middle of the photo with a white ring surrounding the pin. The white ring is a tool that allows for the the rest of the photo outside of the border to be blurred, which i did blur at an amount of 13. The border around the center pin has 4 dots on its line, which allows a user rotate and size up the area inside of it. I sized the border down to the end of the road in the picture and used four larger dots closer to the center pin to control how much of the blur is allowed inside the border. All this was done in order to produce the blurred vignette effect seen here in this picture.

Bridal Mosaic

For this picture, what I did here was I made a new document that 9" x 12" at 100 ppi with the backgrounds set to white. I then went to Photoshop<Preferences<Guides, Grid & Slices to make a grid on the page, with a gridline every 2.25 inches and the Subdivisions set to 1. After using View<Show<Grid to show the grid, I selected the single row marquee tool to select the first horizontal grid line at the top. I then kept selecting all the horizontal grid lines after. I then selected the single column marquee tool to select all the vertical grid lines then created a new layer, filled them with white, then deselected. After opening the bride's photo in Photoshop, I added a layer mask to the picture, chose the foreground to transparent gradient, and dragged up from the last line on the bottom to the next one. I then hid the grid lines and added a stroke layer style to the layer with the size at 3 pixels. After duplicating the original model layer and removing the color to the image, I added a Diffuse Glow filter to the image with the Graininess at 3, Glow Amount at 5, and the Clear at 16 in order to blow out the highlights and give a stylish grain to the whole image. The blending mode for the layer was changed to Soft Light with the Opacity at 75%. Next a subtle color effect was added using a Gold-Selenium 2 gradient adjustment layer. This adjustment layer's blending mode was also changed to Soft Light and the Opacity to 25%. Then, I first made the grid lines layer active and used the magic wand tool to select three boxes on the grid. With those boxes selected, I made a new layer for them and filled them with white.  After doing so, I repeated those same steps again for another three boxes but this time, after creating a new layer for those ones, I added in a Black & White adjustment layer. Finally, I put in some text while using the white squares as frames.

Dotted Dandelion Field

What I did here first was probably the hardest part, which was finding an image big enough to fit many pixelized dots inside. Then, after opening the image, I had to convert it into a smart object to allow for the re-editing of whatever adjustments I made to the picture. Anyways, I added a color fill of black and moved that adjustment layer from the top to the bottom. I then applied a mosaic filter, with the tiles at a size of 56 pixels large. After doing so, I made a new document in the same size as the mosaic pixels and drew a circle smack dab in the middle of the document using the elliptical marquee tool. After deselecting the circle, I filled it with black and then inverted the inside of the circle back to a white color with the outside of it black. Then, I defined the circle as a pattern to be used in the original picture's document. Before doing so, though, I gave the pixelated photo a layer mask, selected the layer mask, and then added the circle pattern to the picture. Unfortunately, the dots looked to bland so in order for the dots to stand out more, I gave the picture layer a stroke style of 1 pixel just to be subtle, a hue/saturation adjustment layer, then finally a levels adjustment layer but I lowered that adjustment layer's opacity to 25% and set the blending mode to screen and I was finally done!