Blog #5

1. My most signifcant accomplishment in looking at my midterm is the way that I used the blending tools to make the different faces blend into the world. I really thought this made my meaning come across a lot stronger and deeper. I was very pleased with the outcome of the piece and thought it was one of my better photoshop pieces.

2. A project that I really struggled with in class was the first quiz. Photoshop was completely new to me and I was totally lost. I could not remember anything we went over in class and was just in a daze for a while. The polygonal lasso tool and the other ones like that were giving me a hard time and I could not remember which one was best to use for what. I know love the tool and used it at least once in the rest of my photoshop projects. One other tool is the background eraser tool. I could not figure it out for some reason. I was like, nothing is erasing, what in the world?? Turns out I was on the wrong layer and after I clicked the right layer everything worked. From that time on I always remember to double check to make sure I was on the right layer before I did anything.

3. I will be comparing quiz 1 and quiz 4 as soon as I get home so I can look at them.

Blog #4

My big idea is family! I am not just focusing on the nuclear, but trying to show that people other than blood relatives can be considered part of one’s family. I went through the process of searching through all of the hundreds of pictures I had on my camera, computer and photo albums. I looked at all of the tons of photos I had of my mom, dad, sister, grandma, and pops and so on. I also had thousands of pictures with my best friend, other friends, co-workers, class mates and other people. I then thought through my head of different ways that I can portray who I view as my family, but still showing the viewers that not everyone may consider these people my family. I then sat down with my boyfriend and had him look at the two different pieces and help me come up with ways to maybe make the family portion stick out or who is not family stick out.
I searched the web for images of family portraits, just family and what people defined it as, also I was just interested to see what types of images and words came up that were said to be related to family. One of the photoshop techniques I will be focusing on is the contrast and brightness.

FINAL ARTIST STATEMENT!!!!!

My big idea is family! I am not just focusing on the nuclear, but trying to show that people other than blood relatives can be considered part of one’s family. I went through the process of searching through all of the hundreds of pictures I had on my camera, computer and photo albums. I looked at all of the tons of photos I had of my mom, dad, sister, grandma, and pops and so on. I also had thousands of pictures with my best friend, other friends, co-workers, class mates and other people. I then thought through my head of different ways that I can portray who I view as my family, but still showing the viewers that not everyone may consider these people my family. I then sat down with my boyfriend and had him look at the two different pieces and help me come up with ways to maybe make the family portion stick out or who is not family stick out.