Walking Cycle

I think with this project the walking cycle turned out well, but i didn't like the fact that I could only use it one way. I felt that the piece was pretty sucessful, but i wish i could've added more effects to mario, like jumping. What worked about this project is the walking motion, what didn't work is I wish I had more time to colorize the whole thing. If I could do this project over again I would add jumping into the cycle and colorize mario. The hardest part about this piece was drawing the walking cycle because of how time consuming it was. I learned from this piece on how to create a walk cycle.

Greater Raleigh National College Fair Logo

5 compositions using 5 elements

For the first design the most difficult part of it was making the type face the main aspect of the composition. I think the textured text turned out well.

For the second design I learned how to use the artistic filters. I liked the different types of filters on the cow.

On the third design I think I couldve found a better way to make the star the focal point of the piece. It was hard to set up the cow and the lightning in the right place.

With the fourth design it was hard to think of a way to make the textur the focal point. The piece turned out better than I thought because I was able to turn the texture into the cow.

The final piece was my favorite to make. The effect of the glow off the lightning and cow turned out really well. The artistic filter also turned out well with the cow.

Burger King

Tutorial-putting a crease on a map

Forget You-Facemation

I think this was one of the best projects I've done so far this year. I think it was pretty sucessful because it turned out the way I envisioned it. The mouthing out of the words was pretty sucessful, but the only thing that bothered me was that the lighting changed on a couple pictures. If I could do this project over again I would correct the lighting on the photos. The most difficult part of this piece is how time consuming it was. It took about 1 hour to make 30 seconds of the video. I learned how important time management and staying on task is to complete a giant project like this.

Washington DC Poster

New York Poster

Holiday Type Card

W is for Walrus

Audio Rhino

Aisha

Retouch #1

Paint Splat

Color Wheel

Personality Portrait

For this project I took 2 pictures of the same area from the same position. First I uploaded the 2 pictures and changed the brightness/contrast so the pictures would look similar. I then put the picture of myself in the frame in front of the background of the similar picture. I used the opacity feature to line up the photos. After that I used the eraser tool to get rid of the inside of the picture frame, when erased, the same picture in the back revealed itself. Lastly, I touched up some of the edges.

Newimal-Giramingo

In this project I had to combine 2 animals for make it seem like 1 animal. I picked a giraffe and a flamingo to combine. I chose this because both have relatively long necks and I thought it would be cool to put the giraffe neck on a flamingo. First I took the photo of the giraffe and cut out the neck area. On the flamingo picture I used the clone tool to take out the flamingos head and still keep the green background. I then placed the cut out giraffe head where the flamingo's head used to be. I used the smudge and liquefy tool to blend the neck into the rest of the flamingos body. I then went to Hue/Saturation and changed the giraffes color to the closest color to the rest of the flamingo. I then smudged the edges of the giraffe's neck, so it would blend in to the background better. Lastly, the flamingo had a shadow on its body, so I used the blotch and patch tool and got rid of the shadow. I think the piece was pretty successful. One thing I think I could've done differently is just have kept the flamingo neck and put a giraffes head on top. I also could have put a flamingo head on a giraffe. By doing this piece I feel like I've built on my photoshop skills by a lot.

Banana

Frog Tongue

For this project I used a picture of a tongue, a frog, and a fly. First I cut out the frog and took off its back legs. Next I lined the frog up with the tongue and used the clone stamp tool to make the frog look like a tongue. I burned the edges and used a shadow tool to make it look more realistic. Lastly, I added a fly and also added a shadow under that. I am pleased with how the project turned out, but I think the tongue could look more realistic. If I could do the project over I may have tried a different frog or animal and made it more realistic. I also learned that photoshop can be a lot easier than I thought.

Angry Pancake

I mad this in Photoshop CS4 for the class. The images I used were a piranhas mouth, pancakes, an eye, and a cartoon mouth. I first spread apart the area in between the pancakes to make room for the mouth. I then cut and pasted the mouth onto the pancake and smudged around it to make the mouth blend into the pancake. Lastly, I changed the color of the pancake and added the eyes and mouth for the raspberries. I feel like the piece was very sucessful and the mouth looks realistic. The most difficult part was putting in the mouth. I learned some basics of photoshop from this project.