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.

Contact Sheet

Reflection Questions

The best part about this project is probably the color of the letter, which is supposed to be representing BHS with the black and red. I could probably improve on finding different ways to change the letterform and make the letter look a different way every single time. Rotating and coming up with what colors I would use were two of the easier things in doing this project. Making sure that each letter was under the right layer that I wanted it to be under was more difficult than anything else. When I wanted to move one layer, I ended up moving a different layer at the same time. I used the text tool to actually type out some of the z's but after I had a couple, I duplicated the letters so I wouldn’t have to type out every single z on the page. The point of this project was to use one letter and incorporate it into a design. I used one letter, z, and made it different sizes and warped some of them so that it wasn’t just a plain, regular z. If I could do this again, I would try to make an actual design with the letters instead of just placing them in random places. The letterform would be different and it would probably have a direction for your eyes to go to instead of you just looking at the letters in random spots on the page.

Letter Project