Day 24

For the first half of the class I was looking for some inspiration for my last 2 projects. I found new things that I could use in Photoshop and fiddled around with the perspective warp tool, using multiple images of nature to create a cool image. I also found things such as Typography to be interesting so I want to give that a try.

Day 23

I spent half the class catching up with my daily entries and then looked for new tutorials on photoshop, using Google and YouTube.

Day 22

After spending 2 1/2 classes on the Low Poly Art I finally creating something I was satisfied with. The original image was of a fennec fox and then I created a Low Poly image of it.

Day 21

I slowly worked on the Low Poly Art making sure I wasn't making any mistakes and to ensure I tried to create the image of the subject rather than trying to just cover the entire image with polygons and colors, I wanted to make sure it looked like the animal I was basing the whole project on.

Day 20

After making the Low Poly art from the other day and not liking the result I wanted to create a better one. I searched on Google for a new portrait of an animal, because Low Poly Art works best on images like these. I found an image I liked and got straight into working, making sure I paid attention to what shape and where I created the polygons in the image.

Day 19

After I finished creating polygons and filled them in with the correct color I created another copy of the split image using Ctrl+J, and the flipped the picture horizontally and pieced it together with the other half of the image. After doing all this I realized it didn't look good, because I made such big polygons I didn't get any detail of the subject. So I wanted to start over and use a different image, one I liked more.

Day 18

I tried my hand in making something Low Poly like, using a portrait of a lion I found on Google. After cutting out the lion from the background I split the picture in half in order to save time, and to make it all symmetrical in the end. At that point I began making the polygons trying and using a Smart Filter called ''Blur'' and then used its ''Average'' option to fill in the polygons with the correct color.

Day 17

I followed along with multiple tutorials on Low Poly Art, and discovered there was many ways to do it. Some would use the line tool to create ''save points'' in case they messed up on certain points, which seemed extremely time consuming but a good approach. Others just used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create polygons within the image after cutting out what they wanted to work on.

Day 16

I liked pixelated pictures of people and animals so I wanted to try to create one, so I spent the whole class searching for the right method of doing so, and then I ran into Low Poly Art, which isn't the same as ''Pixel Art'' but it looks better and seems I'm more eager to learn how to do it.

An Example of Low Poly Art:

Day 15

Today I completed another of my of projects which was about creating a realistic sketch from Photoshop. After looking at my set of brushes in Photoshop I found that there was a few brushes that looked like they could be used as pencil strokes. So I had the idea of creating a project which was about a sketch on a plain white canvas. I used the Clone Stamp tool and used the brush presets and used the base picture of the model. After copying down the original picture I created a White Background layer and then another transparent layer above it. I then had to manually scribble across the entire screen for almost a straight 10 minutes to get what I thought was a good sketch.

The Original:

Day 14

Today I continued working on my city photo manipulation project and finished it, adding in a picture of a forest. I had to add a mask onto it just like with the mountains in the back, using the brush in order to help blend it in with the rest of the picture while also adding a mist/fog like look.

Day 12 & 13

On days 12 and 13 I was sick and wasn't in class, but I didn't do nothing. I was thinking of more things I create and how much more creative I could be with them. For example, instead of using double exposure on a person maybe I could use it on an object or animal.

Day 11

Today I wanted to recreate what I made last year in Media Arts 11. I spent half of class looking for images to use and then the other half was spent creating this.

Day10

Today I added multiple more layers and grouped them. As I grouped these layers I learned that as a group I could add blending options across all the layers within the group. After grouping the layers I touched up on the tree and added lighting around it. All I need to do now is add a couple more things and this is almost done.

Day 9

Today I continued working on yesterdays project, following the tutorial and made some progress. I'm about half way done with this.

Day 8

Today I spent the majority of class looking at a tutorial, making sure I understood how to do everything instead of just copying it. The goal of the tutorial was to create a nature inspired photo manipulation. After reading I opened Photoshop and started creating the layers and importing images while categorizing them.

Day 7

Today I was looking for ideas on what to do for my next project, and I came across Double Exposure.
For my next project I don't have a clear idea on what I want to create, but I definitely want to use Double Exposure in it. So after watching a tutorial on how to do Double Exposure I gave it a try myself and got one done, but it didn't look that great. There are a few things I could do to touch it up but it's not the worst.

Day 6

Today I tried adding a fog effect within the picture, but it didn't look very satisfying to me so I removed it. After removing it I fiddled some more with the rain and made it look better and finished off my first project. Now I need to do about 7 or so more and watch some more tutorials at home.

Day 5

On Day 5, in order to add more components to my ''Flood'' project I searched on YouTube tutorials on how to create a rain and fog effect to make my project look better.

After watching the videos I added the rain effect and next class I'm going to try and add the fog as well.

Day 4

Today I spent the whole class working on my project. I looked at a tutorial on Google that was all about creating a scene where a city is flooded, with objects surrounded by the waves. I'm more than halfway done, I want to add more details like rain and make the waves blend more with its background.

Day 3

For the majority of the class I watched a two-part video on YouTube on the Rain Effect. I learned that you could create a rain like look through filters and through the use of custom made brushes for Photoshop.

This is a custom brush to look like rain

After watching the video I decided to give it a try myself and followed the provided links from the description of the video to try and recreate what I watched.

The source picture of the model had a bunch of trees and grass in the background and I tried to remove it, but I wasn't able to do it as well as last week. I need to go back and relearn how to do so efficiently.

Day 2

In the beginning of the class I was working on finishing one of my Illustrator assignments which took me around 15 minutes to do. After finishing, I went on YouTube and looked for more tutorials for Photoshop and came upon a video on how to use Content Aware Fill.

Midway through watching the video I decided to give it a try and found a sample image from Google.

My goal was to remove the tree in the middle of the picture and after a few minutes of trying, I successfully managed to remove it.

I didn't like the huge dark clouds that were in the sky so I tried to remove those as well.

So today I learned how to use Content Aware, though I'm still not an expert at it. The Content Aware Fill will most likely be used for my upcoming projects so it's nice to have learned it.

Day 1

The first half of the class I watched tutorials on Photoshop to help with my independent project, I learned how to really use the Pen Tool and how to remove unwanted objects in pictures in a clean way.

With about 20 minutes left of class I was fiddling with the Channels of this picture and was adjusting the Levels of the image and practicing to highlight the model and remove her from the background.