critique 1

1. There is some text and a can of tomato soup, and a many drowning in the soup.

2. The size of the image makes the can of soup huge and the man very small, like it is taking over. The color of the image, the red, makes the image feel mean like once again, it is taking over. The direction of this image points towards the man in the soup.

3. The emphasis is put on the soup because of how large it is and it has all of the coloring in the photo. The proportion makes the can seem huge and the man seem small. The balance is offset because the can is not in the center.

4. Most of the image is white with red and black, very basic colors, nothing extravagant.

5. I fee like it is a little plain. There needs to be something else in the photo, but I am not sure what.

6. What draws me in is the man in the soup, the direction of the entire photo is turned towards him.

7. I do not like this photo, it is too plain.

critique 2

1. There are a bunch of boys on the street playing. Two of them are holding what used to be a mirror and there is another boy riding a bike through it. There are a few shops in the background.

2. The size of the image makes the boys seem like they are the world, which is probably how they felt at the time. The color of the black and white really makes it feel old school. The direction of the image to me points towards the boy in the mirror

3. The emphasis of the image is on the boys playing, especially the boy in the old mirror. The proportion of the image makes the boys big and the rest of the world small. The balance comes from the background of the image, making the boys feel like they are not so off balance, because they are facing all different directions.

4. The image is a grayscale. If it were in color it would have ruined the authenticity of the picture, so the black and white makes the photo what it is.

5. I would not change anything in this photo

6. What wins the picture for me is the boy in the mirror, it just adds humor to the piece.

7. I like this image a lot, everything in the photo relates to one another and its just cute in general.

critique 3

1. The image is all grayscale. It shows an old house attatched to the ground by tree roots. The background is very gloomy with some desert in the scene.

2. The photo is in grayscale, giving it a gloomy feeling, like you are not sure if it is supposed to be creepy or depressing. The main focal point is where the house a roots meet together. The roots make the house look small or the roots very very large.

3. Unity it expressed by the grayscale, it brings the image together as a whole, if it was in color there would be too much distraction. The emphasis is definately on the house being attatched to the root.The balance I feel comes from the background of the picture. the sky and hills blend the picture together very well

4. The grayscale is very effective. If the image was in color, I dont think the photo would have made sense at all, it would have given off a happier fairytale feeling rather than a gloomy older feel.

5. I would zoom out from the background a little more, giving it a more lonely feeling.

6. The part that winds me over is the house attatched to the roots. The effect was done very well and it has a lot of meaning to it.

7. I really like this image because to me it makes me feel like it is showing the old and forgotten things that have always been around that are now left abandoned and we are missing the beauty of what we had.

critique 4

1. I see the little girl opening a gate rather than just leaning against a fence. There is also some grass, a road and a tree in the distance

2. The images size makes the girl look small and the fance very large. The color also puts the fucos on the girl holding the blue. The direction I feel points the viewer into the fance gate.

3. There is an emphasis on the little girl and her blue sheet because of the colors. The girl is proportioned to look small compared to the tings around her and the whole picture is balanced right while the little girl pushes the focus to the right.

4. I see a lot of neutral colors and then what pops is the green and blue on the little girl. To make the color more effective I would have made everything except the little girl and her belongings black and white

5. I would have changed the colors to black and white except for the girls green and blue things on the girl.

6. What wins this for me is the mystery of the girl opening the gate of the fence and the look on her face. It makes me wonder where she is going.

7. I do like this image I just wish she had a more mysterious/mischevious look on her face rather than a sad face.

Design critique 5

1. There is an older lady at a restaurant smoking with another person. They are at the end of the building because there is a brick wall behind them.

2. The direction of the image I fell like it towards the lady's hair. I am a bit thrown off though because nothing really points towards that, she just stands out in the middle. The texture of this image varies. There is a rough texture from the brick wall and then a smooth texture from the blue/green chairs. The color of this photo is a little warm. The photo looks old so all the colors are faded a little.

3. The emphasis of this photo is definately on the hair of this woman, it may be that it is rediculous or just huge, but that is what is being shown. The proprotion of the image works. There is some tile brick at the top and the green chair at the image which helps with the balance of the image, also the other design elemet.

4. The color scheme is a warm feeling and then the chairs have a cold temperature, fake leather feel. The gray hair absorbs a little red coloring, probably from the fact that it is an old photo, but helps to give the woman a warm feeling also.

5. I think the color of the seats should have been different. It throws off the picture as a whole, or maybe had a different color wall, something to unite the picture a little better.

6.What catches my eye is the big gray hair. It doesnt really fit with the image and the color is so opposite that it is the first thing I see.

7. I actually dont like this image, I feel like there was no thought put into it and it was a random photo taken at a restaurant, which is fine, but for a design critique, it just doesnt thrill me.

Project 5

Project 5 was the book cover. I really enjoyed this project more than I thought I was going to. I worked with a lot of pictures that I had from doing film shoots over the semester and did my book on film. I also added the logo that I made in ART100 for my company and it just put the icing on the cake. The first print I made did not quite fit, so I had to adjust it all and print a second copy. But I really enjoyed this and if I ever write a book, I am making the cover.

Lesson 8

This lesson was pretty fun and a good way to get creative! The bear was not the very creative part, but it was good to learn how to fix a picture in motion. Then the painted men were fun to work with. The best part, by far, was working with the boy and getting to distort his face... makes me want to do something like to to my little sisters face....

Project 4

Project 4 was pretty cool, we had to take a pair of shoes and make them look like they were "going somewhere". I took my shoes to the rodeo and used a pair of boots, an Indigo Cowgirl Gus shaped cowgirl hat (the same one I own!) and I used a red white and blue barrel and masked it into the show and some horse fur masked into the other shoe. Then I added last but not least an over and under rope, used in barrel racing! The tools I used the most were scaling and the lasso tool. There were multiple layers involved for each item on the picture.

My psd file poofed, so there is not electronic copy to post.

Lesson 7

Lesson 7 was the hardest lesson ever! I had so much trouble with it, and I started over like, 14 different times! At some points I messed up and had to keep going because it was impossible to figure out what I did wrong. So 2 of the pictures re slightly ghost like, and the picture with the girl turned out alright. I wish I had learned this stuff earlier but I never knew it would be this hard!

Project 3

Project three was probably one of my favorites. I chose a line art of a horse and brought it to life! I chose the coloring of a dappled buckskin horse because it is my absolute favorite and I think it pushed me to make it perfect. I did mostly dodging and burning and blurring to get the coloring just right. I spent many extra hours making it perfect and I will one day have a horse that looks like this one!

Project 2

Project 2 was the junk drawer project and I really enjoyed working in photoshop with this. These are the kinds of things I wanted to learn and even had a little time for fun and created some extra projects. The tools I used the most were distorting and changing the perspective on the layers and creating new layers. I chose to put my objects washed up on a beach rather than putting them in a drawer, just to have something different. I added 5 or so objects and tried to make them look like they had been there a while and water damaged and what not. It took some time but I am happy with my work. The hardest part was fixing the shadow on the horse shoe, that took the longest time to make look somewhat real.

Lesson 6

Although lesson 6 was not very hard, it took me a long time to get done. I think it was all mental block that made it take so long though. Working on the butterfly was a little confusing at first and then there was one part that I could not do because it did not give me the option to do it. It was the part where you fill in the butterfly wings with a glass fill or something and it had only a 2 options instead of the 5 or 6 that were in the book. The next part, fixing the hair and teeth and fixing the over exposure with the burn and dodge tool was very easy and I liked doing those things. The last part was really fun, fixing the old mans face. It was very intricate work that took me some time to figure out but it worked out very well!

Lesson 5

I felt like this lesson was very simple and short. Because I have had previous experience in photoshop, I already knew how to work with things like image size and resolution. The only new thing I learned was part of the cropping exercise. I did not know how to make a border and that was pretty cool. Also fixing the wedge was a very useful tool to learn for future reference! Before this lesson I knew what the ruler tool was, and had seen it before, but I had never actually used it and I could have definitely used it last semester in other classes! Looking ahead in the book, I am really excited for lesson 6!!!

Lesson 4

This lesson had a lot of stuff to do but it was very fun! When I think of photoshop, these are the type of edits I think of. The hardest part of the project was in the giraffe picture, working with the quick tool. I was having problems at first but once I figured it out it was easy to use. I also had trouble using the elliptical tool in the fireworks picture. I could not get a perfect sizing around the building and my picture suffered because of it, but for it being my first time using it I dont really mind. My favorite picture to work on was the pelican just because it was a fun picture in general!

Lesson 3

There were many pictures to adjust and play with and it was a lot of fun! I liked how it showed how to fix the redness of a photo because that is very common when taking indoor pictures. My favorite part of the lesson was learning how to use the heal tool. There are so many times that I have been editing pictures and needed that tool. It was very simple to learn and will come in handy in the future. The most interesting and fun to play with tool was the gradient. It was fun to see how drastically I could change the coloring of the entire photo and what areas would show up in each color. I also thought it was cool that when you adjust colors, it really makes the colors vibrant in the most important areas. For example the butterfly was a dull yellow and changing the saturation of the yellow orange and red really brought out the best in the color of the wings! So far these lessons keep getting better and more fun as we keep going!

Lesson 2

The second lesson worked a lot with colors, highlights and contrast.This is the kind of stuff that I really like to do so I flew through this lesson! Working on changing the tones and contrast was a lot of fun and was very easy. I found it amazing that photoshop could auto correct all of the pictures really well and although they were not perfect corrections, they were done really well. I had the most trouble reading the histograms. I do not really understand how they work but I am working on learning what everything means. Some of the information is a little confusing but I feel like if I keep working with it I will learn it better. I really liked this entire lesson and look forward to doing more of these types of things!

Lesson 1

Lesson one was extremely hard for me to follow! All of the information was brand new and I have never once even heard of Bridge. It was a little too much information for one lesson and I was having trouble understanding from the beginning. After I got through 3/4 of the lesson I was finally somewhat understanding what was going on and finished up.

Tutorial 3

One thing that this tutorial really helped me with was how to get to all of my tools. This may seem like a simple task but in my prior experience with photoshop I didn't know where everything was and therefore could not explore my options. Now that I know where all of these things are I can make new adjustments to my photos and put new and cool effects off different photos! This tutorial was the most difficult of the three because of the resolution. It is very hard to understand how resolution works in photoshop and this tutorial did do a great job of explaining how it works. After adjusting all the the hughes I changed my flower to purple rather than sepia because I liked the color and art is about expressing yourself :D

Tutorial Dos

Tutorial two was very easy to go through and easy to understand. With all of the photo examples and websites it is interesting to see how the simplest of things can be copy-writed. For the purpose of this class it is super important to know what images we can and cannot use and this tutorial will really help in the future for what images we can use.

Tutorial 1

After taking tutorial 1, this is the image I ended with. The tutorial as a whole was easy to follow and the pictures made it easy to find where certain button were. I really liked the tutorial because it showed me simple steps to make important changes to documents, saving and photos. I really liked that in the tutorial I had to do all the steps myself to be able to finish and post my image. Being able to work on this at my own pace was very very beneficial! The only part of the tutorial that I did not like was how much extra information there was in the tutorial. Having to read all the extra information pulled me away from what I was actually trying to achieve. Overall it was a fun and informative tutorial that was very easily followed and I look forward to doing more tutorials like this!

The Beginning

This is the beginning of ART 177! My goals for this class include learning how to use Photoshop and to do some intricate editing. I am taking this course as an introduction to learn how to do some animation and regular editing in the film industry. I am very excited for this course and look forward to starting the major projects!