Photoshop ..term 1

This term we learnt how to use Photoshop. Overall I enjoyed learning how to use Photoshop, but it did have its difficulties.

When I was using Photoshop I found sticking to one idea very hard. Each lesson I would open Photoshop and start playing, then dislike my work and start all over again. Obviously this was quite time wasting because if whilst I was experimenting and I liked something that I did, the next time I would try to re-create things I would completely forget how I did it?!- and because I did not think ahead...... I chose not to save the experiments because I never thought I would use them for things like my blog. The thing that I struggled with the most was getting my head around the different tool's and how to use them. Also when masks were used but went showing up and tool's didn't do their job...it made my head spin!

During the creation part of the assignment my planning sheets did help, if only I kept a file on the computer! So maybe doing my planning in my book wasn't the best idea in the world but it did help at times. I tried to organize my time so that I made my first avatar in the 1st Week and my 2nd Avatar in the 3rd Week so that during the 1st week I had the opportunity to experiment and try to imagine what I wanted my Avatar to look like and also complete character planning info etc.

The character planning templates were very useful when it came time to thinking of how my Avatar was going to look and how it lived and therefore what the Avatar needed to survive

Unfortunately my blogging this term was not amazing and it is defiantly something that I need to improve on for next term. The reflections and step-by-step's of my Avatar are very basic but I have defiantly learnt what to do for next time.

The Photoshop unit has taught me many things to do with the software. Thanks to the assignment giving us a lot of room to experiment, I learnt what many different tools do and what effects they can create.

Looking at my final avatar's I am pleased with them, but imp sure with each day you are using Photoshop, you learn something new so therefore if I was to create another avatar I would be able to do much more with it.

If I was able to change certain aspects of my avatar I would probably just go through again and make it neater etc ... Just make it look more professional

If I could start the project again I would defiantly save each stage of my Avatar to make for a more interesting blog!

Overall I am pleased with the progress that I made in Photoshop this term!

Avatar 2

This is my second Avatar. I took the original image and colored it blue and played around with some warrior marks using the mask tool. and then played around with the pattern tools. This is my second avatar and I used similar techniques to the first avatar.

Creating Avatar 1

Final !

After Color Was Changed
Original Background
Original Image

Creating My avatar

1^st : I selected an image from the popular show America’s Next Top Model and started to create my Avatar idea.

2^nd After I had decided the simple character planning of my Avatar I started looking for image’s for space to use as a background.

3^rd I had my Avatar and my background and now I only needed to get creative in regards to what I wanted my “Corianthi” to look like.

4^th Using the colour adjustment tool I made the original image a strange purple/blue colour to try and make the image look less human.

5^th Using the Liquefy Filter I changed many features of her face…. I blew up her eyes to be abnormally large ad I also blew up her lips. (I did this because in my character planning it dose say that they use there eyes whilst hunting and the lips looked to “human” so they had to be changed.

6^th I started playing with different filters and different colours to produce a very weird and wonderful Avatar for the next movie!

Avatar 1 Personality Profile

Personality Profile

Name: Salinqua Aqua

Current Residence: In the surroundings of the waterbed

Occupation: Married to the chief of the tribe, incharge of teaching young ones to hunt, gather and survive

Eye colour: like all Corianthi people, her eyes are black with red highlights

Hair Colour: Purple

Distinguishing features: Because of the low gravity they are very tall, also Salinqua is a very decorated warrior and has killed many from the enemy clan Sitowas. Each Corianthi is also given marks above their left eye showing their status

Style: The style of the Corianthi is very swift and cunning

Dress Clothing: They like to wear clothes that will not hinder their activity

Hobbies: their hobbies include creating weapons and socializing

Favourite sayings: Facta non Verba “deed’s not words”

Speech Patterns: Very straight to the point

Weight: 3000kg this is because not only are they extremely tall because of the low gravity levels, they are also very thick boned to help stop bone breakage

Skin Colour: a deep purple

Facial shape: Humanoid

EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Strengths: This tribe is very creative and smart. They enjoy teaching other’s and spending time with the rest of their tribe. In times of war, the tribe uses the skills they have gained and use them to defete the enemy

Weaknesses: The tribe struggles with communication through talking with other tribes because they are not taught other languages

What motivates the Character: Peace on their planet , Washai

What frightens the character: Conflict resulting in the death of others

What makes the Character happy: The Corianthi people enjoy spending time with each other

Educational Background:

This character is a gentle one, who is very kind and considerate to her own people, but a very accomplished warrior against opponents. On her face you can see her warrior makes under her right eye. As a child she was taught these basic things and because she successes so well with it she was married off the the chief of the tribe.

RE assignment

THE FINAL IMAGE!





Even though it's not Creative Media studies, I used photoshop to create it so I thought I would stick it on my blog!
Our task was to create a meaning full project (either still photograph, drama play, iStop Motion etc.) that represented Easter. I obviously chose Easter and here is the result!

Emotions

WORRIED/SAD

In these images you can defiantly tell that the subjects are worried because of there eyes and the frown lines. Using the Liquefy tool i made the eye's droopier and the mouth curved down.

Emotions

ANGRY!
In the angry emotion...the eyes are all quite slim and there faces are longer. Again I used the liquefy tool to make the eyes look smaller and the mouth slightly straighter

Emotions

Surprised Look


In all of these images the eye's are very wide and there mouths are open. To create this look on the cheetah I used the liquefy tool and made the cheetah's eye's look very wide and I played around with the mouth to give it the "guppy" look .