Roy Lichtenstein

I had fun with this project. i studied pop art briefly in a design class i took. i chose to do an image of a phone because most pop art is focused on making ordianry objects seem interesting. although Lichtenstein was most famous for his action comic work.

Photo Retouch

This is a very useful technique to have. Photo retouching is like magic. take away any wrinkles, blemishes, sun marks, whatever. i used a photo of my best friend Ashley and myself. the top photo is the original. on the retouch photo i took away some smile lines from myself and ashley. she also had a little chin issue that i took care of. in the original photo my bangs were parted and that always bugged me so i used the patch tool to fill them in a little. i also touched up our eyes a bit, making them a little whiter and brighter. also there was a hint of red eye i corrected.

Paul Cezanne

In this project we were to make an image look like a Paul Cezanne piece. We messed around with the hue/saturation a little, used the burn/dodge tool, and added a little blue to give it that Cezanne touch. I like the way mine turned out. although it makes the pizza look a little moldy. this is a 4 cheese pesto pizza i photographed.

Georges Seurat

I wasnt a big fan of this project. The concept and idea of it were ok. making it look like a famous Seurat painting is cool but i just dont think the results are fantastic. maybe on certain images. I actually did three different images using this technique and this is the one i thought looked the best. it was a very simple process, just messing around with the pixelation basically. again i chose a dragon for this project.

Refractive Glass

This assignment was fun! The objective was to create text and make it look as if it were glass. I think mine turned out very well. I can see myself using this technique in the future. id also like to go back and play around with different images and backgrounds to see what results i find. i used graphic design as my text image because thats my major. the background i used to fill the text with was an image of different colored marbles.

Metal Type

This project was based on using different filters to manipulate an image to make it look as if it were metal. I used my boyfriends name as the text.

Cut Paper

I actually really enjoyed this project. I used an image of my manager Jessica. Its kind of the same concept as the previous project (outline and fill). it makes the image look cartoonish but at the same time its meant to look as if you pieced a bunch of paper together to create an image. we also added a drop shadow effect to give it that extra piece by piece looking feel so it wouldnt look so flat.

Outline and Fill

this wasnt the most interesting assignment in the world but i guess its good for people who like making things look like cartoons. i chose a very simple image for this. i could have maybe given this project a little more effort but it was just a little too blah for me. i think this is a good project for transforming people into cartoons rather than mundane objects.

Line Art/Cross Hatching

This project actually gave me a little trouble. I think i just kept choosing images that were too dark. also i had a little trouble with the diagonals layer i was given earlier in class. I ended up just using a photo of Wendi Malick i had saved from research of a different project. Wasnt my first choice but atleast i got the assignment done. i actually think it looks pretty good because i left the background in instead of cropping just her figure out.

Stencil Graffiti

Here I learned how to make a clipping path the easy way!! Pen tool! i also learned how to change the hue/saturation of an image. This project was fun and interesting. I've always been into fantasy creatures like dragons and fairies and wizards and things so i chose to use a dragon for my graffiti image. the background i used is a picture i took of the floor down in the subway station at north hollywood station. i think this project turned out well.

iPod Ad

In this project i learned how to make a clipping path, the hard way, using the brush tool. I've come to find that the pen tool works much better. In this image you can see the lines are rough and uneven. This was a fun project though. I chose this image because it's my sister and i wanted to make the project a little more personal rather than finding a random image on the web.

Ransom Note

This project taught me how to make a message look as if it were pieced together from magazine clippings. I also learned how to play around with different effects to make the paper itself look a little worn.