In our second project assignment for our class we had to create a 'Lyrical Triptych'. We had to choose a songs' lyrics and choose 3 lines that we wanted to show through pictures. Our Lyrical Triptych had to contain three 5in x 7in panels. Each panel had to contain atleast 3 different pictures combined. We had to use a filter in atleast one of our panels. Also, we had to use Adjustments ---> Variations atleast once. First, I choose a song that made me visualize a lot when I hear it. Second, I set up my triptychs - making sure i had (3) 5in x 7in panels with a resolution of 300. Next , I overlooked the phrases of my lyrics and googled images that came to mind. Then, i choose images that looked good when they were combined. Then I re-sized the images to make them the right dimensions. Finally, I combined my images together in each panel and made them look pretty. Also, I had to make sure I had all the requirements that were needed.
The song I chose is called 'Found' By HillSong United. Yes, it's a Christian song. I enjoy to listen to it. It helps me clear up my mind. The words make me think about things around me. My triptych has a lot of images on top of eachother. It looks very peaceful. It's also very religious. I used opacity a lot too. I used the same font in every panel. I just changed the color of it. The words are also the same size. I used filter in the last triptych in the little girl thats praying. I made her stand out more. I used adjustments by making the background in the last tryptych look more green-ish yellow-ish so it can also stand out more.
I created images that would reflect to the lyrics by simply thinking about what the lyrics made me think of. I used images that would make me think of peace, loneliness, and love. My pictures were mostly about praising God. The song was about God so I wanted to get that point through. My pictures were all very religious except for the backgrounds.
My experience with Adobe Photoshop this year has been very exciting. Little by little im learning how to get used to all the tools. I'm better than what I was in our last project. I like it because we can make a simply picture to a whole different picture. We can resize a image, change the color, add writting, change the opacity, cut things out of a picture , and many more things. At first I thought it was a very difficult program , but once you get used to it , its pretty easy. Im becoming alittle bit more creative then what I first was. I think I was more sucessful in the Lyrical Triptych then the Magazine Cover. In this assigment I was more creative and made it look more realistic. I think I was sucessful because I used every tool that I had to use in order to receive a good grade.If I were to do this assignment again I would change the background a little so it could look better when I printed it out.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Magazine Cover Reflection
In this project we were told to design a magazine cover of yourself. We had to choose something we liked to do or our future careers. The title,background, and pictures had to be 8 x 10 and with a resolution of 300 pixels. We had to choose a topic in order to get a actual magazine name on google.com. After we chose our magazine name we took a picture of our selfs with appropriate attire for our magazine. Then we had to cut and paste our picture to our photoshop document. After we had our picture and magazine name we needed a barcode ( also taken out of google.com ) and captions/headlines. We can choose all kinds of fancy fonts and colors. Finally, we can add any shadings or additional effects to make our magazine cove look realistic.
My magazine cover is about soccer. It has a soccer field in the background. There's also 2 white nets on the background. I am standing by one of them. I am standing with one hand on my waist and my opposite foot is on a white,black, & yellow soccer ball. My magazine is called "Sports" with a yellow colored font. The main colors on my magazine cover is black,yellow, and green.
Throughout my magazine I was trying to get threw that soccer is not only a guys sport. Its unisex , both guys and girls. There is a lot of women in the world that are great soccer players, who make it to being pro-athletes. Some are even payed by coaches to play in their teams. As props i used a soccer ball and a soccer field. I represent all the women in the world who play soccer.
I personally think i could of done better. I could of actually wore soccer attire so i could of looked more of a soccer player. I could of also included more writting in my cover , so it can look like a real magazine. I think thats the only 2 things that bothered me and made me feel insecure of my project. Other than that I think my project was a descent piece of work. It wasent my bestest but what matters is i atleast gave it a try.
My magazine cover is about soccer. It has a soccer field in the background. There's also 2 white nets on the background. I am standing by one of them. I am standing with one hand on my waist and my opposite foot is on a white,black, & yellow soccer ball. My magazine is called "Sports" with a yellow colored font. The main colors on my magazine cover is black,yellow, and green.
Throughout my magazine I was trying to get threw that soccer is not only a guys sport. Its unisex , both guys and girls. There is a lot of women in the world that are great soccer players, who make it to being pro-athletes. Some are even payed by coaches to play in their teams. As props i used a soccer ball and a soccer field. I represent all the women in the world who play soccer.
I personally think i could of done better. I could of actually wore soccer attire so i could of looked more of a soccer player. I could of also included more writting in my cover , so it can look like a real magazine. I think thats the only 2 things that bothered me and made me feel insecure of my project. Other than that I think my project was a descent piece of work. It wasent my bestest but what matters is i atleast gave it a try.
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