Polaroid Project

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Before

Artist Reflection:

     This is my polaroid project. The stingiest technical aspect of this project are the polaroids. I feel this way because  without them this project couldn't even be done. The weakest aspect of my work that can be improved on is the actual original picture. I feel I should've picked one with the focal point in the middle rather than off to the right so the polaroids wouldn't be as spread out.

     There were both easy and difficult activities in this project. The easiest part of this project to me was the background. I found this easy because I just removed the original photo's background then added my own by using a brush with 0% hardness and 5000px size and put the reddish maroon of the man's shirt in the corners and his skin color for the main background, I then used the burn tool to give the effect of the dark line in the background. The hardest part of this project for me was the polaroids. I found this hard because it took me a very long time to finish placing them and it was tedious removing small parts of each and every one.

     I demonstrated the objective in this in this project. I did this by making the polaroids look like they were spread on on a table and making a background with elements of my person's sport, golf. If I could do this activity again I would choose a different photo and make a different background. I would choose a different photo because I didn't like how my person was off to the right and would have preferred him to be in the middle of the photo. I would also make a new background because I didn't like the colors I used 100% and would've preferred to use something more fitting.

Facial Retouch 2

AFTER

BEFORE

Facial Retouch

Artist Reflection:

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     This is my edited work "Facial Retouch," here I have retouched Morgan Freeman. The strongest technical aspect of my work is the healing. This is the strongest aspect because without the healing the freckles that can be seen in the before picture would still be there without it. The aspect of my work that can be improved is the forehead. This can be improved because as you can see in the after picture, the forehead has "dots" all over it.

     The easiest part of this activity for me was the healing. I found this easy because there wasn't much on Morgan's face to retouch except the forehead wrinkles and a few freckles. The hardest part of this activity for me was the painting. I found this hard because of the time it took to find the correct color, even using the eye dropper, and then painting the small specific areas. Those were the easiest and hardest things of this assignment.

     I demonstrated the objective of this assignment in my work by completely reworking Morgan Freeman's face. I achieved this by healing away his freckles and wrinkles, putting on a blur and using the blur tool to smoothen things out, I sharpened the eyes, nose, and mouth, and repainted the face to make him look younger. If I could do this activity again I would choose a different person to retouch. Along with last project I felt this was very easy, It may just be my experience with photoshop from my own time, or I just chose an easy picture to retouch. That is my work "Facial Retouch."

Desaturated Flower

Artist Reflection

AFTER

     This is my edit of a work that I have titled "Desaturated Flower." The strongest technical aspect of this work is the flower itself and how I used the history brush tool to make it my focal point. This is the strongest aspect because it gives the viewer's somewhere to go the second they see my work. The technical aspect of my work that could be improved are the tiny places I went outside of the "lines." I could improve on this next time by using things like the magic wand tool or zooming in on the photo to get a smaller detailed view to make it cleaner.

     This activity was very easy. I thought this was easy because it was simply desaturating a photo and then using the history brush tool to repaint the main part of the picture. The most difficult part of this activity was trying to not paint outside of the flower. This was hard because one wrong movement of the wrist could mess you up and then you'd have to undo and repaint what was needed. Those were the easiest and hardest parts of the activity.

     I demonstrated the objective of the project by repainting the main middle flower. I achieved this objective when I desaturated the photo and then repainted over the flower using the art history brush. Using the art history brush helped me achieve this goal because it repaints everything in the photo exactly how it was, so I didn't need to manually shade my work. If I could do this activity again I would do it with a different photo. I would do it with a more difficult photo because I felt this project was extremely easy and prefer a bit of a challenge. 

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