Week Finals

Craft

First of all, I stated by creating layers that I was going to use for painting color. I used the eye dropper tool to pick the colors for a certain part of the photo and used my premade brushes to paint it. I started with the black background and used my sponge brush to cover the entire layer, covering all the pixels of the photo, then I used my various brush brushes to paint the bills in the back to the front then the thumb last. I picked out the most general colors.

Concept

The concept is really just a person holding money, but it's more about the brushwork, as it is intended to look painted by paintbrush. Also, a lot of the detail on the bills was generalized to just blotches of color. Eventhough the fine detail is gone, the viewer can still see that it is money.

Composition

In the original photo, the angle of all the bills create lines of force that guide the eye to them. In the painted version, the blotchy colors break up that force and the contrast in color between the thumb and the bills attract the eye to the thumb first.

Week 15: Photo Paint

Craft
I started by setting the photo as a separate layer on the bottom. After that I created a subsequent layers on top of the photo that includes separate colors of paint at different values, lifght to dark, for the background and then for the dog. Using only the eye dropper and paintbrush tools, I started by making a simple background by picking out just genearl shapes and colors that would not distract from the dog in the foreground. I omitted such things like what was outside of the windows and an other random objects in the room that did not have anything to do with the dog. I started by picking out the lightest colors of the dog and painted over it in a separate layer and then gradually picked the darker colors and painted the finer details in separtate layers.
Concept
The concept is simple, the picture is supposed to focus on the dog.
Composition
Since the random obects are omitted and the background is simplified, the dog pops especially with the contrasting colors over the background.

Week 14: Paintbrush Collage

Craft
The collage was made with only paintbrushes. First the background was painted black, then the circle brush was used as a stamper to make an arrangement of circles of varying color, size, opacity, and hardness. A simple color scheme was choosen. The white doves and signiture were drawn in grayscale on a separate document and made into preset brushes, then used as a stamper.
Concept
The concept is magician's doves flying away from the stage, represented by the bright, sparkling lights made by the circles.
Composition
The viewer's eyes are drawn to the doves first, then to the stage lights.

Week 13: Texture Collage

Craft
All natural and manufactured textures were imported with a scanner at 300ppi. In the first collage, the leaves were cut out with the eraser and magic wand tools. Their hue was changed to a brownish, yellowish orange. The textures in the background were cut out with the lasso tool and the inverted selection was deleted. In the second collage, the leaves' hue was changed to green. They were arranged to ressemble a shrub or crop and were merged into one image layer, then repeated, rotated, and rescaled. The rag textures had their hues changed and they were rearranged and skewed. The same rag texture was used used to create the barn with hue and saturation changes. The mountains were made with the sandpaper texture which was cut out in various shapes and layered with lessening opacity against a blue background.
Concept
The first collage's concept is to represent collors and textures of autumn. The second is a farm landscape.
Composition
The first collage draws the viewer to the leaves on top, then the brighter textures, then the darker textures. The second collage draws the viewer's eye along the row of foliage to the barn in the background.

Week 12: Photo Recolor

Craft
I took each of these photos and set the saturation to zero and set each of the layers to multiply to make the whites transparent. The center photo was lowered in contrast to make the ocean pop more once the colors were introduced. For the background, I used a basic blue, then I used a less saturated blue, and a tinted blue and painted picked out items.
Concept
The concept was to keep the beach scenes theme constant and to pick out smaller items to make them stand out.
Composition
In the first photo, the birds are painted with the dull blue to stand out amoung the blue background and the water is painted the brighter blue to draw the viewer to the water instead of the beach. In the center photo, the water is again brightened to stand out in the background. In the last photo, the lighthouses are brightened to stand out from the water which stands out with the duller blue against the sky and beach.

Week 11: Misfit Toy Final

Craft
Not much changed from the previous packaging except for teh font of the text on the box and the shape of some of the package's edges around the display window. I used the photo of the miter saw blade and cut out a portion of the blade and placed it in the corners of the cover of the box. I raised the value of the cropped blades to white and then used the eye dropper tool to match the color of the box and painted the cropped layers to the box layer so the orp shadows would transfer. I used cracked text for "Slaughterhouse Playset," made it bold and added a stroke. I used arial for the rest. I rotated the text in the upper left. For the playset layout, I used the same text, except I arched the "Slaughterhouse Playset" text over the playset layout.
Concept
The concept is to sell the danger aspect of the playset.
Composition
The red text taht stands out on the gray box and also the razor blade edges on the box stress the point.