Blog Assignment #5

Blog Assignment #5

1.
Actually, I think I really learn a lot about photoshop in this Art Education class, especially when I am trying to finish the midterm and final project on my own. I think I got good grades in the midterm because of my big idea and the photoshop tools I used in the retouching process. In the midterm, my big idea is the dream I had to be a photographer. I think the most interesting and compelling accomplishment is to do the filter effect. I just changed several sketch effects to make my work looks beautiful. When I finally chose one, I found it is better to erase the sketch effects except the camera part. In this continuously changing process, I found that adjusting the effects we used in PS is very important to finish our work perfectly. I even changed my midterm work for 4 times to make it better.

2.
When we learned about the vegetable cutting in class, I found it very interesting but difficult because it is hard to select the things we want and move the selected parts to somewhere we need. But after that project, I just can manage the Lasso tool, the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the picture. In the quiz 5, when making the movie poster, I just used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to cut the actress and actor from two different posters into my own.

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In the Brainstorming projects, when I first  contacted the big idea, I just did't know how to covey the pig idea through the work in photoshop. So I was just cutting and pasting pictures together. However, in the midterm project, I learned how to choose the images related to my big idea and then make them friendly adjust to each other. In stead of cutting and pasting, I learned to make them in harmony and in friendly-looking. I think that is a big accomplishment to me.