Part 1:

• In this banner I used a textured background, which I painted with a brush tip set to 100. I used a round tip with both opacity and density set to 100. I then created a new layer on which I wrote text. I then flood filled the image and used copy merged.
  

• This is a banner that I created using the Hot Wax Coating applied 5 times. I then colorized the text using a hue of 34 and a atuation of 170. I also used a drop shadow on this banner.
  

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  Part 2:

  1. This is a photograph of me and my husband Howard on New Year's Eve 1999. The photograph has a gamma correction with blue, green, and red linked at a value of 0.80 each. The brightness is set to 12 and the contrast to -3. I also applied "equalize relative brightness" from the Histogram functions menu.
     

  2. This is a photograph of my dog, Barney. I applied gamma correction with the colors unlinked. The value for Red is 1.20, for Green is 1.00, and for Blue is 0.80. The brightness is set to -2 and the contrast to 3. I also applied "equalize relative brightness" from the Histogram functions menu.
     

  3. This is a photograph of me and my husband getting ready to go to my cousin's wedding. I applied gamma correction with colors unlinked. The value for Red is 1.00, for Green is 1.20, and for Blue is 0.80. I set the brightness to 2 and the contrast to 10. I applied "equalize relative brightness" from the Histogram functions menu.
     

  4. This is the same photograph as the above image. All values are the same, except that instead of applying "equalize relative brightness," I applied "stretch."