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.