Photoshop Final

Adjective: The adjective at hand is courage. Here stands a man with a sword and shield at hand ready to take on the herd of buffalo stampeding towards him. I extracted the man and centered him in the middle of the stampeding buffalo image. I then used the Lighter Color blend mode to finish the image.

Famous Work of Art: For the famous work of art, I chose Edvard Munch’s The Scream and placed Macaulay Culkin’s head from Home Alone overtop of the head in the painting. Before placing the head, I opened up Macaulay’s face in illustrator and traced the image altering it to a transparent outcome. The tracing gave the face a cartoony-look. I then opened Macaulay back up in Photoshop extracting his face on the figure in The Scream.

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/10-famous-works-of-art-with-client-feedback-179.aspx (The Scream)

http://beuler.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/classic-home-alone-quotes/ (Macaulay Culkin)

Directed Towards Children: Most children like animals and Santa Claus, so I attempted to incorporate both in this image. I extracted the dog onto the image of snow. Afterwards, I placed a Santa Claus Christmas hat slanted on top of the dog. Finishing the image, I crafted a shadow underneath the dog’s feet.

http://morguefile.com/archive/display/161345 (Snow)

http://lessiethedoggie.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/a-random-dog (Dog)

http://www.morehousefarm.com/KnittingKits/Hats/Santa/ (Santa Hat)

Image of Choice #1: The initial image was of this Iranian Woman staring at the viewer. I opened this image up in Photoshop to give her eyes a purple glowing effect. I started by using the Burn Tool around her eyeballs and around her eyelids. After, I used the Dodge Tool to brighten the iris in both of her eyes. I then used a bright purple on the Paintbrush Tool and colored in the iris in both eyes as well. To finish, I applied the dodge and burn tools on the same locations as before to sharpen the image.

http://images.cryhavok.org/v/Iranian+Eyes.jpg.html (Iranian)

Feminine: For the feminine image, I chose a picture of a model showing off a new bikini. I extracted her out of the original picture and placed her in a black image. Locking the extraction layer, I colored her completely white. As an outcome, the viewer sees only a white figure on a black canvas. Focusing on the white figure, one will come to see feminine characteristics of the figure’s stance.

http://www.seriousluxury.com/victorias-secret-spring-swim-preview/candice-push-up-halter-victorias-secret-2011/ (Woman)

From Scratch: The image I chose to create from scratch was this image of a house on a nice summer’s day. Opening illustrator, I began from scratch making different shapes to build the house, clouds, and the sun. I used Pathfinder to combine all circles into one cloud, and to make the windows for the house. Finishing, I used the Flare Tool to cause the sun to glare in the audience’s view.

Image of Choice #2: For my second image of choice, I decided to make another image from scratch but this time through Photoshop. I started with a black background. Then, I Rendered the Fibers, setting 40 for the Variance and 1 for the Strength. Afterwards, I used Motion Blur setting the Distance to 999 and adjusting the Angle to 90 degrees. Using the Gradient Overlay under the Layer Styles I set the Blend Mode to Overlay and edited my own choice of colors. I then used the Lasso Tool, at a Feathering option of 35px, and created the figure above. To finish, I Revealed the Selection under Layer Mask.

Image of Choice #3: In this picture I chose an image of a lighthouse. I went straight to Adjustments and selected Black and White. After, I used the Channel Mixer to rid the picture of any RGB. Placing the sky on its own layer, I set the Levels at White:250 and Black:190. I then went to the Layer including the light house and all other scenery and used the Curve Adjustments to match up the darkness to my liking.

http://morguefile.com/archive/display/770528 (Light House)

Masculine: This image runs very closely to the previously introduced feminine image. I found a picture of a man with facial hair and extracted his hair, placing it on a new white background. Afterwards, I colored all of the extracted hair black. Once the viewer sees this image, their immediate focus is on the extracted hair giving them a masculine feel….unless they thought I extracted a bearded woman from the circus.

http://newhairstylegallery.com/more-handsome-and-dashing-with-facial-hair.html (Man)

Image of Choice #4: In this image, I decided to go with a metaphor. I cropped a box on a white background. After, I found a light bulb and copied it six times, placing each six in the box. To make the light bulbs seems as if they are in the box, I used the Background Eraser Tool around the edges of the box. I then placed a lit up light bulb outside of the box. Once the viewer sees this image, the metaphor should be very clear.

http://www.clker.com/clipart-open-box-1.html (Box)

http://www.backyarddesignslighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Light-Bulbs-7.jpg (Lit Bulb)

https://www.storesonlinepro.com/files/1974975/uploaded/Philips%20Incandescent%20A-19%20Light%20Bulb.gif (Light Bulb)

Piece of Music: This image is definitely one of my favorite images. The original picture was of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. I extracted Jesus out of the picture, replacing him with a little Lamb. I used the Patch Tool here and there and then my image was finished.

http://www.freewebs.com/religion_lms/symbols.htm (Virgin Mary)

http://trevormcmaken.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/lamb-of-god/ (Lamb)

No Words: The image has no words, and yet still portrays a story. The image started as a Gradient background of red and orange. By changing the Paintbrush Tool to a leaf figure, I placed leaves all around the image. The color of the leaves are green, red, and brown, all of which being Fall colors. Once the image was complete, it sent a calm message of the arrival of the season Fall.

One Color: In this image, I decided to go with my favorite color purple. I changed the settings for the Paintbrush Tool to have a laggy-circle placement. Afterwards, I set the background to a Gradient Overlay using purple as well. Once the background was placed, I set rows of circles of all sizes overtop.

Photograph: For the image with a photograph, I chose a photo of myself. I decided I wanted to do a comic book effect of myself since I used to be into comic books. First I Adjusted the Levels of the Image. After, I selected an Artistic Film Grain, where the Grain:4, Highlight Area:0, and Intensity:10. I then Pixelated the image and set the Blending Mode to Darken. Next I Stroked the Layer Style with a width of 25px and the position inside. I created two rectangles, used the same Stroke process with 3px and added color along with text in each rectangle to finish this image.

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AFTER

Redo: The image I chose to redo was this picture of a girl in light. At first, the image had light leaking in front and behind the girl. I used the Patch Tool and Paintbrush Tool to fix these errors to put full focus of the light carrying the eyes straight to the girl.

Sell: In this image, I created a fictional drink called Purp. I extracted a Coke bottle and changed the cap to an orange color. Along with that, I used the Gradient Tool over the Coke label. Afterwards, I opened the file in Illustrator on top of a turquoise background. Centered on the background I put a Flare effect to add emphasis on the soda bottle in front. I put a 13-sided star with adjectives persuading the viewer to buy the product. To finish, I put a text pointing towards the soda with a catchy phrase to stick the product in the viewer’s head.

http://www.hiwtc.com/products/coca-cola-coke-0-5l-bottle-0-5-l-1806-9684.htm (Coca-Cola Bottle)

TV Show: I chose Family Guy for my TV show image. I extracted their family watching TV in their living room and placed them in The Simpson’s living room. Using the Distort Tool I switched their positions and then I was finished.

http://www.thecartoonpictures.com/r-family-guy-8-cast-couch-219.htm (Family Guy)

http://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/whats-your-favorite-character-from-the-simpsons/question-1635355/?page=5 (Simpson’s Living Room)

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/tv-programs/family-guy/1175753/ (Ball)

Typography: For my typography image, I built my name, using my name, in Illustrator. Each of the “Austin Taylor” ‘s have a different font.

Vector: For my vector image, I went to Illustrator and built a Triforce. This Triforce is made out of each form of purple, being regular purple, light purple, and dark purple. I created a white 3-sided star and then made 3 different purple triangles and placed them on top of the initial triangle.

Image of Choice #5: For this image, I wanted to portray a stationary car moving at a high speed. I found a picture of an Audi R8 7 in an open area. I copied the layer and then used the Motion Blur, setting the Angle: -14 and the Distance: 45. Afterwards I placed a mask over said layer. Using black on the Paintbrush Tool, I selected parts of the car I did not want blurred as much.

http://www.updatesmotors.com/2011/07/audi-r8/ (Audi)

Photoshop Midterm

In this picture titled Rain, a metaphor is quite clear. I extracted a man with an umbrella into a picture of rain. To add a metaphoric meggasge, along with the rain i placed cats and dogs raining down on the lonely man. The metaphor here is commonly known as “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

In this picture titled Inner Self Image, I chose a picture of a guy staring at himself in the mirror with sorrow and confusion. The story of this image is that through the mirror
the viewer can visualize how he sees himself, with disgust and distruction as a
sign of depression.

In this picture titled Yacht, I used the Text Type Tool. Placing the text box above the yacht, I type in the box “This is a yacht” stating that the boat below was, in fact, a yacht.

In this picture titled Uni-Bama, I used the Patch Tool. With the patch tool, I highlighted the section in between Obama’s eyebrows and dragged the cursor over his eyebrow creating a unibrowl. Next, I used the same method over the bump on his nose and made a freckle-like pattern on both of his cheeks.

In this pictured titled (Wo)Men’s Restroom, I used the extraction method. With two pictures to work with, one being a women’s restroom sign and the other being a men’s restroom sign, I extracted the male figure out of the men’s sign, replacing it with a female figure.

In this picture titled Girl in Light, I used the history brush to create the effects shown. I first darkened the entire picture and created a snapshot, then went back to the
original picture and completely lighten the picture and created another
snapshot. After making two snapshots to work with I selected specific areas in
the original picture that I wanted the adjustments in both snapshots to stand
out.

In this picture titled Seat Yourself, I used the image rotate method. The original picture was the green chair sitting up right. I extracted it onto a white canvas and rotated
the chair upside down.

In this picture titled Colored Fruit, I used the Quick Selection Tool on each fruit in the picture creating a separate layer for each one. Having each fruit in a separate layer made it easy to color each one a different color without coloring outside of the
lines.

In this picture titled Eclipse, I extracted a picture of the moon overlapping it on top of a sun. After the extraction I created a new layer of the moon. I then used the Blend Mode Linear Burn to darken the moon just a bit, creating an eclipse-like effect.

In this picture titled Four Cows, I use the Content-Aware Fill method. The original picture has four cows in the field. I took out one by using the Quick Selection Tool to
highlight the cow, and then I expanded this outline by a few pixels, and
finished by filling in the outline with the background instead of the cow.

Blog #3: Where Do You See Yourself After Media Arts & Science

After graduating from IUPUI majoring in Media Arts & Science, I hope to be in pursuit of my “dream job.” Unfortunately with my dream job being a film director, I do not see me being employed that quickly into Hollywood. Although, I do hope to be in an internship or working along side a film director. If this is the case, I might be able to show-off some talent to the company and get to direct working through them. I feel I could bring to the table some new innovations the film industry has yet to see. You might be asking yourself, “What might this be?” Well, if you hire me I’d be more than happy to show you!

Challenges in Media Arts & Science

Coming into college, I knew there would be many challenges I would have to overcome in order to be success in my major. One challenge I over looked was the amount of programs I need to become familiar with. The Adobe package I downloaded from IUWare came with over a half a dozen programs I need to become familiarize myself with. Half of them I havent heard of and the other half I know of but do not know enough to make them run. Of all the programs I find Photoshop the easiest. I dated a girl who was a photoshop expert, that and the fact that I’m currently in a Phtotshop class makes that program more “comfortable” than the others.

Studying on my own will be a challenge in itself. I never had to do much studying in high school because the lessons usually came easy, but college is a whole new system for me. Every class has material that is vital to memorize and reading that is needed to be read through in order to understand the lesson at hand. I have no problem doing homework or papers, but when I am required to take the responsibilty of reading on my own is where I become laxidasical. I tend to have a hard time taking in what I read, this might be because I have more of a photographic memory rather than verbal.

One other dificultly I found in college is the participation in class. In high school I knew or knew of most everybody there. I have been speaking in front of them since grade school. In college I have some classes with almost a hundred people in them at once. I didn’t think this would be a problem but it turns out it is. I usually find myself just sitting back in class taking in what people say including the professor and taking notes to look over later. In a couple semesters I plan on taking speech class to help improve my ability to speak out in a public venue. Hopefully this will allow me to become more confident in my words and make it easier when participating in class.

All About Mwuah

I am currently enrolled at IUPUI for a degree in Media Arts & Science. I plan to use this degree to one day acquire my dream job, to be a film director/producer. A man by the name of Todd Amateau gave me the opportunity to shadow him in a TV series he was working on that was in production in Chicago. I would consider him an idol during the pursuit on my career. Although I have only viewed the set of a TV series, I plan on transfering my talents on the big screen If you know me, then you know I eat pizza for at least two meals per day. I watch two episodes or more of The Office daily as well.

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