Visual Pun

 ButterFinger

 Snapshot

 Firetruck

Sunglasses

In this project, we had to make visual puns to create a well known phrase. For example, a stick of butter, replacing a finger gives you "ButterFinger". On each of these four visual puns, we had to place an effect. On the first, I adjusted the Threshold to give the background hand-drawn look. On the second, I used Posterize to make the piece look like it belongs on an advertisement. On the third, I used an effect to change the opacity of the selected layer. This made the fire look as if it had really been painted on the truck. Finally, I desaturated a picture of the sun, and used a gradient map to fill it in with my own colors.

Kaleidoscope

In this project, we created a kaleidoscope-like image by duplicating one part of a picture and reflecting it across the screen. I took a picture  of spirit week decorations with many colors, in order to create an exciting image.

Four Square

My silhouette

This is yet another project which made use of wordle, and I think the words in the background illustrate the photo perfectly. The photo is very simple, so I chose to only type a few simple words.

Wordle

The website "Wordle " allows you to type in a group of words, hit create, and gives you a fascintaing combination of word formations, colors, and fonts. This tool can be very useful in photoshop, and I have already used in in some previous projects. I think I will continue to do so in the future. Not to mention, its very entertaining. I entered a book report I finished recently for my english class, and I think the photo of words that popped up represents the book perfectly.  

Lunch Break

In this project, we had to find a picture of a person or people, and delete them, leaving only a silhouette. Behind this silhouette, we placed a group of words describing that picture. I chose a picture of men eating their lunch on a beam, during the construction of a skyscraper. This picture has always inspired me, so I chose to try to put it into words. The effect was very interesting, though I don't think I did it justice.

15 Green Things

Our project was to create a single scene using 15 different pictures of green objects. I did my best to put most of these objects together in a way that makes it difficult to tell them apart. We were allowed to change the color of some of the objects in the scene, and I made the trees in the background purple. Before, they just faded into the background, so I chose to make them stand out.

Crazy Combo

The object of this project was to take parts from many things, and combine them to create one. I chose to combine the oddest collection of animal parts, real and fake, that I could think of. These range from a human foot to a dinosaur head. I think the effect is rather creepy.

Music Project

This project was helpful in learning the use of layers. A layer had to be created for every individual element that this photo contains, in order to give me the opportunity to arrange them in any way I wanted. I used many colors in this design. Some would agree that these colors clash, but because music is the inspiration for this project,  and many types of music clash, I thought that this was appropriate.

Sam without Legs

This assignment involved one of the most incredible tools in Photoshop. The lasso tool and the quick-select tool give you the opportunity to select specific parts of an image and delete them, with almost no trace if you do it correctly. I attempted to delete the bottom half of Sam's body. This worked relatively well, though the effect it left me with almost makes it seem like the bottom half of his body was torn away. To add to this effect, I painted claw marks with a brush.

Sunset

Our assignment was to desaturate a black and white photo, recoloring it with a tool called "history brush" to create an interesting effect. I chose a photo with lots of vibrant color, and this is where a sunset inspired me. I decided to recolor the most vibrant part of the photo, the bottom, and then gradually shift to black and white towards the top of the photo.