Project #2 Reflection

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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 used a "box blur" which in my opinion is the most effective when you want something blurry. Once I blurred the background I took my 8 pictures that I found online that represent Drake. Those pictures include categories like Canada, inspirational words, microphone, money, music, record, spotlight and stage. I applied the pictures in specific places that suited my liking. Here is the final product.



Yeah it looks cool I know... I didn't have to hide my background layer because the entire background is covered. Here is my screenshot of my layers.



As you can see, the mask is in place and the background is on so it shows I didn't cheat to try and cut the picture out. :P

Letter Tracing

    The letter tracing was a lot easier then the silhouette because it only required you to select your person and trace letter upon him. So here is my screenshot and final work...





As you can see what I did was select my person and they move over to the "paths" tab. After that I made a new workspace on the person I selected. I then used my text tool to type in my quote that the person said, in this case Drake and his quote. I copy and pasted it over and over until they got really close. When they were apart I just adjusted the size of the text to make it look perfect! After that I just took off the background layer and used a solid color to choose a color for the background. Then I was done! It was very easy and just required a little adjusting.

    I believe these skills would be great for a web designer because it would allow them to make their own silhouette's and trace letters when they would most need it. These skills give a web designer more control over their work and allow for greater customization over everything that has to do with text and other pictures.






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