Lesson 6

Lesson 5

Learned to straighten, crop and resize images. I got the most out of straighting and cropping the images.

Lesson 4

I learned different ways to make selections








I had some difficulties with the path tools.












Good exercise I learned about matching the color of selections with other images. I like this one.












Learned new selection tool with this exercise

Project 6 FInal Project

I started with a landscape desert scene and mask the sky. I darked the landscape photo to give the appearance of night time. I added a fractal design I made in Ultra Fractal program and set it in the background. I overlayed a separate starfield over the fractal and added 2 large suns. Also, I added a spirit dancer hovering over the landscape. I tried to create a native peyote experience. I was able to apply most of the photoshop techiques I learned from lessons from the textbook.

Project 4 Shoes with a Destination

I took photos of my shoes and added layers of NASA photos. I transformed layers from map by bending around the contours of the shoes and I lower the opacity settings to bend over shoes.

Project 3 In Living Color

I started with the line art then made selections to individual areas and filled with color. Easy project I learned about filling in selected areas.

Critique 5

1. What is the visual content of this photo image? Describe actual objects. The photo is of a boy seated in the foreground with a little girl standing in a doorway holding a teddybear in what appears to be a light green room. Both children are dressed in period clothing.

2. Name three design elements, ingredients that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. Three design elements in the image are lines of the rooms floorboards along with the room itself and the implied line between the children running between the foreground to the background, the colors of the room and children and the lighting of the room from window.

3. Name three design principles that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. Three design principles are emphasis is on the boy in the foreground, proportion created between the flooring and walls within the room and the balance created between the children between the foreground and backgroud.

4. What type of color scheme is used ? Is color used effectively? The color scheme appears to be a restricted color palette of lighter tint colors. The colors appear to be to restricted for the image, giving the image an unfinished look.

5. What could be improved in this photo image to make it more visually effective? The color scheme should be widened for more colors.

6. What wins on this page, draw you in, catches your eye? The boy in the foreground is what catches your eye first with the implied line drawing your eye the little girl in the background.

7. Do you like this photo image? Explain why or why not. The image is lacking in colors leaving the image with a unsettling look to it along with how the children are posed giving them look of there are not alive.

Critique 4

1. What is the visual content of this photo image? Describe actual objects. The visual content is of a old farm home in the background with what appears to be snow falling in the foreground.

2. Name three design elements, ingredients that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. Lines created at the horizontal line at top of where the lawn begins, the texture of the lawn, and the color value of the black and white image.

3. Name three design principles that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. There design principles are balance between the sky and lawn, a rhythm created from the falling snow down to the earth and the proportion between the the housing in the background and the lawn in the foreground.

4. What type of color scheme is used ? Is color used effectively? The black and white color scheme is effective in the photograph and help creates a period in time.

5. What could be improved in this photo image to make it more visually effective? The photo appears to be missing something in the foreground, which makes it plain photograph.

6. What wins on this page, draw you in, catches your eye? The falling snow is the most what catches your eye and but otherwise has no real emphasis on any one object.

7. Do you like this photo image? Explain why or why not. It is a plain image, I believe the image is to balance between the sky and lawn.

Critique 3

1. What is the visual content of this photo image? Describe actual objects. Visual content of this image consists of a surreal image of a mans arm with small trees growing out of sitting in front of a window.

2. Name three design elements, ingredients that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. Three design elements are shapes of the mans arm and the trees;the colors of the image and the texture of the rain on the windows in the background.

3. Name three design principles that are prevalent in this photo image, and explain how and where they are used. Three design principles are emphasis on the trees on the mans arm, rhythm of the trees growing and their unity.

4. What type of color scheme is used ? Is color used effectively? The color scheme is a restricted pallette of shades of blue and greys. The colors are used effectively in creating the mood of the image.

5. What could be improved in this photo image to make it more visually effective? If a larger color scheme was utilized my help improve the image.

6. What wins on this page, draw you in, catches your eye? What most catches your eye are the trees.

7. Do you like this photo image? Explain why or why not. I enjoy surreal photos and this photo has the elements that I like. It's very creative.