Self Portrait Reflection

       After completing the personality self portrait, I really enjoyed doing this composition, and I am very happy with the way it turned out. I believe the strongest aspect of my composition are the effects used on my images. I used multiple tools such as colorize, layer modes, and filters to make color prominent in my piece. I used a lot of color because I did not want my collage to look plain, but rather eye catching. I believe one area of my piece that can be worked on is the techniques I use to arrange my images. Even though I did rotate, flip, adjust the size, and change the opacity of my images, I believe I could work on making my images not so obvious as to what they are.
       In my opinion, the easiest part of this assignment was finding and picking out which images I wanted to use. Because the portrait was all about me, it was easy to find images that I really liked and that related to my life and personality. On the other hand, I believe the most difficult part of this assignment was adjusting my images about seventy five percent from their original form. I had a bit of a hard time changing the images to make them completely unique to me and ensuring I did not copyright. For my piece, I used many tools and materials to alter and adjust my images. The tools I used consisted of layer mask, rotation tool, image adjustments, select tool, lasso tool, paint bucket, and opacity. 
       I believe I successfully met the objectives of this composition by using a variety of tools while also representing myself in my portrait. I took  what I have learned so far in photoshop, specifically layering tools, filters, and positioning images, to create my composition. I was able to change details in my images to make them my own and able to represent myself even more. If I had the chance to do this composition again, I do not think I would change too much. I would probably just continue to adjust and position the images even more creatively, making them unique and unlike the original versions.

Self Portrait Contact Sheet

Personality Self Portrait!

Colorize!

Plate Exercise

Contact Sheet

Clone Wars Reflection

     When completing the Clone Wars assignment, I thought the project was very enjoyable and creative. I believe my final product came out very good and it was better than I thought it would turn out. The strongest aspect of my work is the positioning of each layer. I made sure everything was lined up correctly and nothing looked off in my final product. Even though some of the clones of myself overlap a bit, they are all seen and formatted the way I wanted them to be. I believe one area I could work on is the variety of my images. I could have done some more unique poses and had my clones interact more in my image.
     The easy parts of this assignment included taking the pictures, uploading them, getting the pictures on the contact sheet, and originally layering them. Most of the tasks completed at the beginning of the project were easy and the harder parts came afterwards. I would say the most difficult aspects of the assignment was making sure all the layers were in alignment and doing the layer masks. These two steps required some patience with the image, taking time to make sure everything looked the way it was supposed to.
     For this assignment, the tools and materials I used were my phone camera, google drive for uploading pictures, the layer tool, the layer mask, the paint brush tool, move tool, zoom, and the opacity tool. Each of these tools were continuously used throughout the process of making my composition since the same steps were repeated for each layer. I was able to complete the objective of this assignment by following all requirements, while using my own creativity to make my clone wars composition unique. I think if I were to do this project again I would change around some of my poses and make my clones interact more. I would possibly also add another person into it to make it even more creative.

Clone Wars!

Reflection on Single Letter Composition

     After completing the single letter composition piece, I am very pleased with the way my image came out. I believe that the strongest area of my piece is the format of my letters. I tried to make it look like my smaller letters were spiraling around one big letter, which is my favorite part of my image. One thing I think I could improve on, however, is the variety in my piece. I kept the same font and color of my text throughout the whole piece. Next time I could try to switch things up with a few fonts and colors.

     The easiest aspect of the single letter composition to me is that I could create whatever I wanted with my one letter, B. We did not have to follow any specific guidelines except to only use one letter. I enjoyed being to make a unique piece, unlike anyone else's. One difficult part of this activity for me is making sure everything looked the way I wanted it to. I had to go back and fix some sizing and spacing issues with my image, but other than that it was not difficult.

     For my single letter composition I used a few different tools on photo-shop. For my background to be both a shade of lighter blue and darker blue, I used the gradient tool. The font I chose to use was script MT bold and I also chose to use many different sizes for my font ranging from 55 to 235. I used the duplicate tool to make all the letter B's in my image. I also was using the rotation tool to put my letters at different angles. I was able to successfully demonstrate the objective in this art activity because I believe my piece is unique and suits me well. I was able to use basic photo shop tools for my composition, which helped me learn more about them. I think if I did this project again I would use more of a variety of colors and fonts, but I really like the way my composition turned out.

Single Letter Composition!

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