altered images

            After opening the images in Photoshop, I cropped them, selected them, and copied and pasted them over to my 3-image grid. For each image that I included, I first went to “Edit,” then “Transform,” and “Scale,” so that each image could fit in their box accordingly.
            For the picture of my boyfriend Chris and I after he fell asleep on the couch, I added +3 red to the color balance, and -35 on the yellow-blue scale, to increase the yellow hue. I liked the sunny tinge it added to the photo. Then, I noticed you can also adjust the shadows this way. I added +51 blue. I feel it added some density to the picture. I was tempted to add heavy blue to the highlights, because I love the look of blue television light on peoples’ faces, for some reason. I didn’t end up doing this though.
            I increased the brightness on the kitty, (Dutch), because the photo was taken indoors in dim light, while the doggy, (Gypsy), was shot outdoors and did not require a brightness adjustment. I didn’t want Gypsy to steal the show, so I also added +54 vibrance, +25 saturation, and a bit less contrast so Dutch’s cute face didn’t look so dark. Also, because the background is so white in this photo, the added saturation created a greenish tint. Some people find this hue unpleasant, but I like it and Dutch needed more color.

Save the Turtles

I'm unable to upload the PDF file here. But I learned how to Place the turtle pictures and word document into the InDesign artboard. I learned how to edit the space the document takes up. I added my turtle, used the Free Transform tool to scale him down and I rotated him t look like he's walking onto the poster. I added a title, with a green swatch and blue border. For the background of the sea I lowered the opacity to 82% and used the gradient feather tool to make it fade into the white of the poster. I gave the sea background its own layer so that I could place it underneath the text. Then, I added all the pictures of turtles to the right third of the poster.

Logo/Silhouette Boxes

Yet again, another one that made me want to rip my hair out. I will never be hired to make logos, nor do I want to. That's what my stepdad does. Anyways, I tried to use the pen tool as much as I possibly could without having a meltdown, I honestly hate that tool, I really do. I used some shapes, lots of gradient background. I got better at making hearts. I only filled about half of the 64 boxes. I couldn't take it anymore, so whala.

Pear with Pen Assignment

I've had a very hard time using the pen tool, but I think practicing with the pear has made me understand how to use it better. Even though my gnarled looking pear doesn't reflect this very well, I am proud of how it came out anyway. The leaves definitely look like leaves, even if the pear looks like the most unattractive, inedible pear ever. I chose for it to be brown because I prefer brown pears over green; they're sweeter. I learned more about how to use the anchor points in the pen tool, and how to control the curves a lot better.

Boxes assignment

I've never had such a tedious assignment before in my life and I hope I never have to do this again. I think it's just because I don't have the mind to put 36 different designs inside boxes. This was definitely the assignment I enjoyed doing the least. I can appreciate the mosaic style though; I always have liked mosaic and tile artwork when I've seen it. My mom used to do clay tile-work like this, only much much prettier. 

I used the shapes and some gradients to fill the boxes often, but I was getting sick of that, so I'd also use some spirals and line segments, some arched. I also found some floral patterns I liked. When my impatience was at its peak, I added some faces in the boxes.

I like the reflection tool, I can see myself using it in the future, just not with something like this.

Social Awareness Poster Final Draft

The only changes I made to my first draft of the poster are the color of the type, the font, and I added some extra info. I was told that the red type was a little hard to see, so I made it white, to pop out in both sections of the poster where I put type. I changed the font to something that, I thought, looked a little bit more intimidating. Then, I thought it'd be a good idea to add a support website so that viewers could have something to go to after seeing the poster, if they wished to.

Posters Draft #1

Both of my social awareness posters are for the opioid epidemic.
For my first poster of the iceberg, I used the hide all layer mask to fade in the needle into the iceberg. I used the blur tool to blend the little silhouettes of people into the water and the iceberg. I used the quick selection tool for all of the silhouettes.

For my second poster, I found another black silhouette of a backpacker. This image I magnetic lassoed and copied and pasted. I used the reveal all layer mask to make the bright red color fade onto the pavement background. I used a freehand lasso to cut out the ball and chain so that I could paste in onto my poster and make it look like it was around the backpacker's ankle. I used the eraser and blur tool to clean it up. I then selected, copied, and pasted a small needle onto the ball, but didn't fade it like I did in my first poster. For the words I couldn't find a font in Photoshop that I thought was strong enough, so I went onto 1001freefonts.com and found this one. I downloaded it and installed it onto Photoshop and used the color navy to contrast with the red.

Citations for Images
silhouettes of people taken from the following websites: rfclipart.com and canstockphoto.com, and getdrawings.com
image of needle: newsadvance.com
Iceberg, a photo from NASA, "an example of how icebergs may look underwater."
Backpacker- 123RF.com
Pavement-advancedpavement.com
Ball and chain- gettyimages
Font from 1001freefonts.com