The Best Class Ever

    The trip to the museum was full of interest and was enjoyable. I really did enjoy the trip because it was an opportunity to see things I may never seen anywhere else. This specific museum if unique and allowed many of us students to go through new experiences together! I saw many things that caught my eye and it was from history. Many of the art that I reviewed with the tour guide had some deep meanings. One of the pieces of art was called "Between Earth and Heaven". It was designed using lots of unused wine bottle caps, and put together using copper wire. This artwork had some deep meaning that we didn't really completely put together before the tour guide escorted us to another art piece. However, I may have been on to something with my own theory. I thought that the artwork could have represented people with the gold color in the center of it. The top which looked like a leathery part, was suppose to represent the heaven and the bottom made of countless string patt...

Man was I rushed! Absent for 2.5 days really left me behind. Luckily my hard thinking and channeling power of effort got me back on track! Anyways project 2 was a little tricky to understand at first but I got through it. This was a 2 step project, meaning we had to do 2 things. We had to do a silhouette and letter tracing. Lets start from the beginning. We had to choose a quote from a famous person and a picture of them. The person I chose was Drake, you know the famous singer... Who hasn't heard of him? Back to what I was saying... I chose him and his quote, "I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection." This quote is very inspiring because it's true. Now Im going to do the two parts separately. Make sure to stay with me. :) Silhouette     This is probably the more hard one out of the two. To begin this one we had to take our picture and put a mask on the person in the picture, in this case Drake. I inverted the selection to select the background and use...

Yet, another easy lab was put into place. I mean I can say it's easy if it really is. This is my reflection right? Anyways on to the lab! This lab called for the use of blending options. It was time to play around with text. Here is my work and what I have done, then I will explain what was expected of us. The task was to type your name 8 times using the text tool in photoshop. Then we had to place them in a formation as shown above. 4 going down a column. 2 going down a row. After we did that we just had to play around with the blending options that were in photoshop. I mix and matched effects as they were fun to play with. Here are my screenshots of my layers and show what I used for each text. Some examples of effects I used in the blending options were inner shadow, inner glow, satin, stroke, drop shadow, pattern overlay, bevel and emboss, gradient overlay and some others. I feel like photoshop didn't have that many blending options so I ended up using some of the ...

This was a short lab that required us to mask a turkey that was in a picture then make the outside of the turkey blurred. Here is the end result of my lab and I will explain it once you've finished reviewing it. So now that you see my work in photoshop, I believe you have noticed that there isn't many layers in this lab. I have some text for a thanksgiving card and the normal picture as a background. The point of this lab was to use a selection tool to select the entire turkey, then I selected the inverse of the picture. This selected the entire back of the picture and I placed a filter on it. After selecting the background, a mask was put on it for the use of the filter. The filter that we used was a blur filter. This was to emphasize on the turkey. If the background was blurred then the only thing people would focus on in the picture was the turkey. The canvas was also extended because it was to be printed out and be used as a card. This was a very simple lab that required...

    Filters... That's the basis of this lab. Showing whether we know how to use filters to change the way a photo looks using the program photoshop as a basis. Just so I don't lose you, take a look at this.     This is the final result of my lab #7. We were asked to take a picture of ourself and then use a liquify filter. Basically we just had to mess around with the picture and make it look different. As you can see I look like I have some health problems... But thats the point of this project, to make pictures look different from how they normally look. Then after using my own picture, we had to choose a scenery picture we had in our files. This scenery picture was taken during my walk for the first ever lab! I took this picture and made 5 copies of it. Then our objective was to choose any 5 filters from the filter gallery and use it to make the picture look differently. It was an easy lab that required paying attention so you knew what to do. As a great student I...

    You can say this lab is connected to lab #5. This lab was based on the same thing but a little different. The picture that I had drawn was now suppose to be transferred over into photoshop and remade using ONLY shapes. Now lab 5 was a little harder then this. I want to say this because painting completely custom isn't really my thing. However, I was stuck on shapes for a while thinking how would it be possible to implement a sunset into shapes. It all turned out well in the end.      Well it may not be the best but in my eyes I see I put a lot of effort into this work. The only thing I may have regretted was the fact I used a custom flower shape for the clouds instead of the cloud shape. :P Silly me! However it still turned out to look amazing in the end and I like it. The detailed sunlight over the sea was made with a triangle shape that was rotated. The colors I got from burning different variants of brown. As you can see there are a lot of browns!...

    In this lab we had to remake our picture in photoshop. Recently we made a picture that we drew and was hand made. Our skills were put to the test. This lab was all about using only different options referring to the paintbrush tool. My picture was a sunset that I had drew at home. I didn't think it was going to be easy though it wasn't going to be too hard either. Upon starting my head was going to explode into 5,000,000 pieces. It was super hard until I stopped to think... Wait it doesn't have to be exactly the same but it was suppose to be similar to it. Here is my final result!     In this lab I used the paintbrush tool into making my picture even better then it was drawn. I used different paint colors and different modes for different aspects of the picture like brown and then color burning the brown. I then color burned it again to make an even darker brown for the top of the clouds. The sun was pretty straightforward. I used yellow on the edges of the s...