pixlr

I did not do to much to this picture but i did play around with most of the tools on Pixlr. I really like Pixlr because it is a lot like photoshop but free and maybe just a little easier to use in my opinion. the layout of the screen is nice and simple with all of your tools at your finger tips from the start rather than having to go through all of the pull down menues in photoshop. However, it does not have as many tools such as gradients and other tools like that that photoshop has. I think i would recommend putting this on the website because it is free and quite easy to use. I think this website could be marketed to any age group because it is easy but the more you get to know it the more complicated things you could make with it.

Aviary

this is a piece I did for our project that explores various photo editing sites. The good thing about Aviary is that its layout is much simpler than Photoshop because the tools are clearly defined and it shows you how each tool will affect the photo. There are also many small things that you can add in to the photo that reminds me of clip art. However you can edit your picture much less in Aviary vs photoshop. Photoshop has small effects such as gradients that help change your photo a lot, while Aviary does not. This site is very easy to use and therefore would probably be directed at younger ages such as 10-14 year olds because of how simple and straight forward it is. This site is probably a little to simplistic to be put up on the website.

for this project we had to make 4 visual puns and use a new technique on each of them. I chose those four off of the sheet we had that gave us some examples. Then I used a few techniques on each of them. My favorite is the hot dog just because I thought of it instantly and really liked the result. I really enjoyed this project because it took skill with photoshop as well as some intelligence to think of the visual pun and how to portray it.