Midterm

This assignment was for our classes midterm grade. I took a personal photo of me and one of my best friends at a soccer tournament, and used photoshop to make it appear like a puzzle. The assignment was to use all of the tools we were taught how to use this year in one project. I used all of the tools that were listed on the guide. This project wasn't hard. It lets you be very creative because you are aloud to do whatever you want to in the project. For a midterm, this was very fun.

NAPP Projects

For this project, we were supposed to watch different tutorials on the NAPP website and create 2 projects based on the tutorials we watched. The first video I watched was about the art history brush. It was basically just a touch up on that tool because it isn't really used a lot because not a lot of people know what it is used for. It was very helpful to brush up on the qualities of that tool. I had forgotten how useful it can be. This picture was very easy to do. I used a certain brush to blur out the sides and a different one to make it look kind of sketch like.

For this Project I used a Vortex technique. It was really cool and fun to do. The tutorial I used was really helpful. This project was more involved than the last but it was really cool to learn how to do. 

New Years Card

This project was very simple. We were supposed to make a holiday/new years card for our soldiers over in Afghanistan. This project was very easy and I think it was a good thing to do. Unless they are looking to enlist, kids this age don't really think that much about the sacrifices our soldiers make and what they do for our country.

Coca Cola

For this Project we were really focusing on text. So we were required to create an original advertisement. For this ad, I used an old vintage coca cola ad. I changed the color of coke from red to blue and changed the text also. This project was pretty easy, the difficult part was deciding what advertisement to mimic. 

Kaleidoscopes

For this project we were supposed to make a kaleidoscope using a personal image. For this project, I used a picture my friend had taken of my boots. This project turned out okay. The key was to achieve a perfect 45 degree angle and i got 45.03 so it didn't turn out perfect. This project was a bit frustrating because of the angles we had to get in order to make it perfect.

This kaleidoscope wasn't as good as the previous because i got a 45.07 degree angle instead of a perfect 45 degree angle. This project overall was not my favorite. It was a little meticulous in the way that it had to be just perfect or it didn't turn out right.

Photo-Editing Sites

Picmonkey.com

For these next few projects we were assigned to experiment with different "photoshop like" websites. For this image my partner, Hannah Plantz, and I used picmonkey.com. This site was the most interesting to use. It had a lot of different tools but a lot of them haven't been seen in photoshop. It was very different but cool to use.

Splashup.com

For this image, we used splashup.com. This site was cool also. It had a good amount of options to make a really cool and original image. This site wasn't as advanced as picmonkey, but it seemed to be the most similar to the original photoshop with the mechanics it had.

Photo505.com

This website is more just for kicks and giggles more than anything. It has an object or image and you upload a personal photo and it photoshops you personal photo into the picture. The quality of this site isn't very good but it's more for having fun and laughing than creating a serious project.

Picmonkey.com

For this project we used picmonkey.com again. The way we were able to distort this image using the different tools in this program was really neat. Doing this in photoshop would have taken a lot longer and you still might not be able to get an image to look exactly like this.

Taaz.com

This site was very different to the rest. It had to do with make-up. It was actually kind of cool how much you could do with this site. You could completely make someone look different by just doing their make-up and hair. This site would not let us save a picture without  signing up for an account so therefor we do not have a visible project.

Inside to Out

This project was called an Inside Out Project. You take a character or an object and show the inside of that thing or person, split in half with the outside. For my project I used Barney Stinson from a very popular TV sitcom "how i met your mother". He is a complete and total player. He uses scams and cons to be with women. So I took the regular cleaned up Barney who always wears a suit as the "outside" and him dressed up as a wingman for halloween to represent one of his cons as the "inside". This project was really cool because I got to incorporate one of my favorite TV shows into a project.