Before and After

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after content-aware

On this project we had to take a picture and use the history brush to select part of the image to go away. To make the picture look realistic, when you delete the selected are, you select content aware in the drop-down menu and you are left with the picture without the previously selected area. I chose a pictures of girls playing soccer and deleted the soccer ball and the spray paint lines and such that i felt the picture looked better without.

Kaleidoscopes

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On this project we had to make a kaleidoscope image after watching the youtube tutorial        "Kaleidoscope-week 33."I took some of the pictures from my already downloaded pictures from spirit week, and just followed the directions on the video. I played around a lot with using different pictures for the background, the foreground, and the layer in between. here are the 3 pictures and 2 kaleidoscopes i made from them.

Four Square

On this project we had to take a photo and project it into four squares and do something to each to make them unique from the others. I decided to choose a spirit week picture of captain hook from peter pan. I made two squares lighter and two squares darker. I used a lot of filters and different tools that affected the whole picture. To divide the canvas into four congruent squares, I turned on the grid and then went to the pen tool and made a line from the 4 inch dimensions, since i started with an 8 by 8 canvas.

Color

On this project, we had to take a background, find a contrasting picture, and place it in the shape of our body. I automatically thought of colors. I took a gray painting and then put the outline of a picture of me on it, and deleted that part of the gray painting. I then took multiple color paintings and lined then up in the body frame, and slightly altered them with the blur tool to look like they flowed. Next i decided i needed white and black, so i made text with white and a black outline. I then thought about self-expression and decided to put a quote about it, from John Turturro. Next time i would try the reverse and find a quote without self-expression. I am decently satisfied with the work.

Wordle.net project

Sports

Things that matter to me

On this project we were supposed to use Wordle.net to make a collage of words, with any words we wanted. I made these two pretty quickly i tried to get the main focus in each to stand out, in the sports one it was the word 'sport', in the one that has things that i care about, it was my name in all caps 'ETHAN'. For a while i played around with the font and the color scheme, but kept them both mostly horizontal. Next time i would use a completely different font and try to make the focusing word at the very center.