Final Project

Tattoo Project

My strongest area on this piece had to be where I put the tattoo because I could have put it somewhere where I wouldn’t be able to make it look realistic but I was able to pick a picture where I could. Something I could have possibly done better was blending the tattoo to make it look like it was actually on my skin, because with the way I did it, it doesn’t really look realistic and it still looks like it was photoshopped. The easiest part about this had to be drawing the tattoo, because I found what I wanted to do and after that it was just easy to draw it because the design was so simple. On the other hand, it was hard finding a good enough picture to actually put the tattoo on, and then also finding a good tattoo that would fit on the space that I had in the picture. Also, I had to decide where I actually wanted to put the tattoo but my options were limited because of the pictures I had available. To do this project, I used the dodge and burn tool, the blur tool, and the warp option. I also used the magic wand tool and the multiply blending mode. I followed the instructions for this project by drawing something I would actually get tattooed on my body and somewhat successfully make it look like I actually did get it tattooed. If I did this again, I would choose a better picture, because I wasn’t able to get the design I wanted and make it look the way I wanted it to look because there was almost no place for me to put the tattoo. Also, if I had enough time and I put enough effort into it, I would maybe pick a more detailed design for my tattoo.

Self Portrait

Changing all the pictures by warping them and changing the color modes was something I thought I did well and also having pictures that weren’t really similar to each other. I could probably find a good way to blend my pictures together so my collage would look more put together and not as sharp/choppy. Changing each picture by warping it and giving it a different color mode than before was easy because it alters the picture but it’s not really difficult. Figuring out what pictures I would use for the portrait was most likely the most difficult thing about this. I had about 5 pictures and needed 8 more but I couldn’t think of what add to my picture. I used the quick selection tool, the filter gallery, I changed the color modes, and used many other tools to help me make my self-portrait the best it can be. If I did this again, I’d probably choose different pictures and use a different composition. I’d also probably actually plan out what pictures I’m going to use beforehand so it doesn’t take me as long as it did this time.

Colorized

My strongest area of work is the composition of each object and how they’re placed. Also, I was able to get the picture so that there was nothing left over from the background. I could probably improve on making my pictures look like they weren’t actually photoshopped and that they were the way they are originally. I could improve on putting shadows under objects and making it so that they don’t look like they’re just floating. It was easy using the quick selection tool because you could easily select whatever you needed to select and you could also undo selections that you didn’t mean to do. It was hard using the magnetic lasso tool because sometimes it would select parts of the picture that I didn’t want to select, and I’d have to deselect, and then it would end up deselecting too much stuff. I used the quick selection tool, the magic wand tool, the lasso and magnetic lasso tool, the elliptical marquee tool, and obviously the move tool. I used a different selection tool for each object, and got to see how difficult/easy it was to use each one. If I did this again, I would probably try and add a shadow to each shell to make it look like it’s actually on the plate and not floating/making it look like the picture was made in Photoshop.

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