Assignment 5- Polaroid Project

     The strongest technical aspect of my work is the use of duplicating layers and the marquee tool. These tools were the most commonly used throughout the whole project. I could improve on the background of my work. This project is not completed so more use of the marquee tool would complete the project. The easiest part about this art activity was choosing the picture and the background. This was not a hard aspect of the project.

     The most difficult aspect of this art activity was keeping track of each polaroid and where it was on my image. I demonstrated the objective of creating the illusion of overlapping polaroids by duplicating my layers of polaroids over the image. If I could do this project again I would choose a different picture and also choose a solid background, that is one layer and not broken up into many sections.
 

Assignment 6- Shape Collage

       The strongest aspects of my work were the use of the marque tool, and the changing of the opacity. This is the strongest because it is shown throughout the entire project. I could improve on using more objects to fill the negative space in my work. I could do this by using more larger objects. Choosing the colors for each object was easy about this art activity because I just chose different ones that went together as I went through the project. Also I used a lot of duplicated layers.

     The only difficult thing about this project was achieving 11 groups, and remaining symmetrical but other than that there were not many hard aspects of this specific project. I demonstrated the object of this activity by achieving 11 or more groups. If I could do this art activity again, I would use less opacity changes and make a different center point.

Assignment 4- Tattoo Project

     The strongest technical aspect of my work is using the warp and the burn tool to, to create a natural looking tattoo. It is the strongest aspect of this piece because it makes the tattoo look real and wrap around the skin of the shoulder and the collar bound. The opacity of my tattoo could be improved, in order to make it blend onto her skin better. Choosing the picture to work with was the easiest part of this art activity, because after that the more difficult task was finding a black and white sketched tattoo.

     Finding a black and white sketched tattoo online was difficult because it could not have any color. Also many flowers and roses that I looked at had color and were not easy to work with. I displayed the objective in this art activity by using the dodge tool and the burn tool, also learning how to save it as a displacement copy was something new and different. Also I used the desaturation tool to create this image. If I could do this project again, I would chose a different person so that I could create either a larger tattoo or make the tattoo stand out more, and possibly add color to make it more life like.

Assignment 3- Imaginary Landscape

         The strongest technical aspect of my work is the use of the masking tool, and changing the opacity. This is the strongest aspect my project because it is the main tool I used create the image I did, by putting the background and the foreground together. The technical aspect of my work that could be improved on if the amount of objects, or the softness of each of the images where they are cut to fit together. Choosing the images I wanted to use was the easiest about this activity, because I just chose things that related to me, and places that I enjoy to go.

        Choosing smaller images within the backgrounds to fit into the landscape was more difficult about this art activity. Also remembering to use masks and how to use them was hard. If I could do this art activity again I would use more masks and change the opacity in more places when using the brush tool to cut out parts of images. Also I would have skewed the lighthouse like I did with the sail boat, and possibly used a different foreground.