Animated Postcard

In this part of our sight project my goal was to create an animation which allowed my font poem would transition smoothly to my postcard. I had never used animation on photoshop prior to this assignment. I was surprised that I did not have many problems with the animation aspect and found it relatively easy to follow along as our professor guided us through the steps.

The only thing that I had a little bit of trouble with was the "tweening" aspect of this assignment. I had never heard of "tweening," which I now know is a tool in photoshop that creates a smooth transition from one image to another. When it is finished it looks the images are morphing into each other.

Over all I was very proud of my results. The animated postcard really tied everything in the sight project together for me and seemed like the "grand finale" of the project. If I had more time I would have thought longer about the subject for my shoe image. I would have tied my Beatles lyrics in with the image in my postcard.

Exquisite Corpse

Font Poem

In this design I was hoping to keep it simple and make the more powerful words in these lyrics stand out. I was also still trying to master the layering tool.

I decided to use these lyrics from the Beatles song "Let it be" because I feel that they are powerful and I wanted to make the two words "shine" line up and stand out.

I found it challenging to make the font poem readable while still being creative. I was fortunate enough not to run into too many problems with this assignment.

I am proud of my end result and I like the fact that it is not too busy. I felt like I was able to show that I know how to use most of the tools in photoshop without making the font poem too complex.

If I had more time I would have probably chose a shorter quote so that I could be more creative with font choice and it would still be easy to read. Overall I feel pleased with my final product and I am proud of my work. I feel that I am beginning to really understand how to use photoshop effectively, and I wish that we were using it for more assignments now that I finally feel confident with it.

Postcard Assignment

In my Postcard design I was hoping to create a very colorful and fun image that looked like a pile of shoes on the floor of someone's closet, but overlapping and two dimensional.

I decided to choose images that all had a white background so that they would look clean when they were layered, and so that they would look like one uniform image rather than a bunch of separate images.

I found this project challenging in that I felt like I was teaching myself how to use photoshop the whole time. I sometimes feel that we are supposed to have background knowledge of these programs before entering this class, and I do not. I found it challenging working with multiple layers at once and rotating each image so that they were pleasant to look at.

When I encountered problems I generally asked other people in our class for advice, or referred to the directions that we used online for our double exposure image.

I am most proud of the fact that I was able to use so many separate images for this postcard and I feel that it still looks clean and not too jumbled. I also used the rotating tool a lot, and I had never used that before. I am proud that I was able to teach myself how to use this tool effectively.

I think that if I had more time I would have come up with a more creative theme for my postcard, and played more with colors and saturation. For my image I left the colors as they were because I wanted my finished product to be incredibly colorful. Overall I enjoyed this project and I am proud of my finished product.

Composite Activity-Foundations Exersize

Contact Sheet

For this assignment I was really trying to master some of the basic tools in photoshop. I had never used photoshop until this class and I tried to use this assignment as an opportunity to understand the different tools available in this program.

I found the resolution aspect of this assignment the most challenging. I think that it was the most challenging only because it was the first thing that we did. I couldn't keep up at first because I was so new at using the program, but eventually I caught up.

One issue that I had was that the quality of my original pictures was not very good, making it difficult for me to use them. I struggled at first to make the assignment work with what I had, but eventually I decided that it would be better to simply start with new, better quality images. It definitely worked out for me this way.

The thing that I am most proud of overall is the fact that I can honestly say that I developed a stronger understanding of photoshop by completing this assignment. Mission accomplished. If I had more time I would have played around even more with the various tools available in photoshop.