Evaluation
I started off with the idea I wanted to do some graphics
around a fashion style so I started looking in books and researching
online. I found three artists whose work
inspired me, but I feel that my work relates mostly to Sophie Toulouse’s
because of her use of imagery and added patterns.
I first tried to make a movie poster twice and gave up
because the tutorial was very complicated and I wasn’t really that into making
a movie poster, it didn’t seem interesting enough. I attempted it twice because I was new to
Photoshop and didn’t really know my way around.
This helped my learning how to cut out an image and put it onto a new
canvas.
I scanned in a variety of textures to experiment with using
these within imagery. I traced around a
Rankin image and then scanned in the trace and added textures to the trace
within Photoshop. I also used some
textures from shoots I did for this project.
I did a number of shoots for this project and I haven’t used
any of the images from these shoots for my finals, only to show examples of how
to do things in Photoshop. I felt the
images didn’t represent what I wanted to get, and that they weren’t different
enough. Therefore I had to look on the
internet for images because I had ideas which I couldn’t get myself such as the
space images.
I researched a number of tutorials and found four that I
really wanted to experiment with doing; the dreamy scene, smoke effect,
watercolour effect and the surreal effect.
I really enjoyed the smoke effect and surreal effect tutorials and feel
that I took the tutorial and made my own ideas out of them. I used my own images for them and then just got
textures off of the internet. The first
attempt at the surreal look didn’t go the way I planned and I almost gave up on
it but I think this was because it was late and I was tired. I gave it another shot and really started to
enjoy it, but felt by the end of it I had pretty much copied the image on the
tutorial, so I then expanded and once I had learnt how to use the brushes I created
my own interpretation. I loved doing the
smoke effect because the brushes were great to use and really created a sense
of movement in my images. I found the
tutorials really easy to follow and soon got used to using Photoshop.
I did a lot of ‘how to’ posts on the blog because I wanted
to show my knowledge of how I did the overall images I created and also some
stuff that is just useful.
Finals Evaluation
Black and white smoke effect
- I chose this as a final because I love the smoke and the way it highlights
the movement within the image. I chose
not to add colour to it as I felt this distracted from the intent of the
overall image.
Colour smoke effect – I chose
this as a final because I love how the smoke adds pattern and texture to the
image. I wanted to add some colour
because I felt the original black and white was lacking without it. I chose the one with the glitter because I
felt it added some movement to the image.
Space self-portrait – I chose
this image for a final because I felt it looked really interesting and I loved
the nebula image and the effect it gave the portrait.
Surreal self-portrait – I chose
this as a final because I love the use of the butterflies and light brushes used
as the hair and the flowing flowers for the shoulders. I feel it looks really surreal and this is
what I wanted to convey in the image.
Before I did this project I was a beginner at Photoshop and
knew barely anything apart from how to quick mask. I feel that this project has allowed me to
learn a further skill needed for photography.
I hope to further my skills in Photoshop in the future. I have enjoyed using Photoshop and creating
all these different pieces of work. I
found Illustrator to be confusing and the tutorials not very easy to follow,
but I feel that if I furthered my knowledge of Illustrator I could create some
amazing effects using it. I really
enjoyed this project and wouldn’t mind doing something like this again in the
future.
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