Avatars

This is my avatar/alter ego. For this project I took a photo of myself using photobooth and then used the liquify tool a lot. I used it on most aspects of my face including my nose, eyes, and lips. Then I used the color replacement tool on a couple different aspects. Then i put on some war paint to make myself look cool.

For this avatar project I chose to use president Obama. I turned him purple using a little trick Nick showed me. Then i painted some war paint on him, and last I used the liquify tool again to distort some of his features. I hope the secret service doesnt find me.

Cumulative project

For this project we had to make an advertisement for ourselves. I chose to use a beach setting because I really like the beach, and I am not able to go this year so I wanted something to remind me of the beach. I chose what I thought were my four best/favorite projects of the year. I really liked doing all of those projects. Then I put on the beach ball border and a gradient on the sign post. This was a fun project because it allowed me to look back on some of the various projects that I had done this year.

Hotel Rwanda poster

My poster is on Nick's Blog

Text illustration

For this project we had to chose a word and use images as the letters that best exemplified the word, while also trying to tie the word in with the movie Hotel Rwanda. I chose Bravery which Paul exhibits throughout the entire movie as he houses hundreds of refugees. I also chose his wife and the military leader from the U.N. For the rest of the letters I chose the Tiananmen square event, Braveheart, a bull fighter, and some marines because I thought all of those showed bravery very well. This was a fun project because it helped me remember the movie which was really good, and then help me think about what I thought showed bravery.

Series of Six

This is my series of six. I chose to do my series about the battle between the 1% and the 99%. I think these pictures all accurately portray the battle going on. For some of these pictures I simply added a filter or a stroke. However, for some I created a gradient because I thought it made the picture look better overall. For the Percentage of Millionaires in America and Congress I actually made the entire thing in photoshop. I liked this project because it really made you think about the world and some of the major problems in it.

second color wheel

For this project i decided to go and take pictures about WAHS, that either had the warrior in them, or said WAHS. I used a football helmet, the scoreboard, and a couple other plaques and things around the school that had the logo or WA on it. Then for the shape to use i chose the star from mario, which is the star in the middle of the picture. This was a fun project that was time consuming though in a fun way.

photoshop tutorial

For this tutorial i was supposed to use the color replacement tool on a picture and see how it affected the colors. I chose master chief from the Halo sieres. I did not do quite the best on it as you can see, and i think that is because there are so many different shades of green on Master Chief's armor whereas the picture in the tutorial had two colors with very few different shades. Being able to master this tool would be nice but getting the tolerance and everything correct would be difficult.