Visible Invisible Friends That Are Me

Silhouette

Digital Design 1

Status: Completed

    This is the Silhouette project that we created on Photoshop. It consisted of cutting my body out of three pictures, aranging them in any position that I wanted to. Then I had to cover the images up with a color gradient, with a silmilar gradient in the background. Then we had to download certain types of brushes off of the internet, and place the designs all about the picture.
    The project was moderate in diffuculty, and it really wasn't what I was hoping for, but the project idea itself was not a favorite of mine.

Color Me Famous

15 Minutes of Fame

Digital Design 1

Status: Completed

     This project gave us the time to learn about Andy Warhol, the Pop art designer mainly popular back in the fifties and sixtes.
     For the picture, i had to take the bust portion from my picture, and size it so that 4 of them will fit on a standard sheet of paper. The upper left image is a monochromatic color scheme, and since blue is my favorite color, I chose it. The upper right picture is a two color, scheme, and I was in a Christmas-y mood that day, so red and green were choosen, also Red and Green are complimentary colors. The lower left image is three colors that are all compliments of each other (originally I had three awesome colors that gave the image a spooky effect, but the project requirements forced me to change them). And finally the bottom right photo has a plethora of colors that, to me, gives it a heat gun look, but heat had nothing to do with the color placement.
    I love this picture, and am very happy with the way it turned out. I plan to make the picture my Facebook profile picture for a while. And who knows, I may go back and change it to give it a spooky effect for the Halloween season.

Bottle-cap Magnet

     This project was called "Bottle-cap Heart Jewelry". I made it for Digital Design one.
     My favorite band is Sugarland, and when I heard we had to make a design that consisted of a heart, their symbol was the first thing that I thought of. Their new album, The Incredible Machine which was coming out a few weeks after the project was announced, gave me the perfect basis for using them.
     I used Photoshop CS3, to make a 1"diameter circle and place a metal background on (a reference to the machine). I then took an image of the heart and wings off the internet, and positioned it over the background.
     The text was the part I had the most trouble with, it took me quite a few tries just to learn how to use the process, then a bunch more to get it perfect on the picture.
     When we finished the computer part of the project we had to print the circle out, and cut it out using a HUGE single hole punch. Then we placed the circle into a bottlecap, and our wonderful teacher Mr. Manco poured an apoxy over the paper to seal it into place.
     I am very happy with the finished product. I have it hanging up in my locker, and love to just sit and look at it. As it says on the picture, the album debuted yesterday, and I love it soo much, i pre-ordered it in July, received it early.