character profile

sixth

In today’s lesson, i did some last minute touch ups to my avatar. I ensured there was a shadow to the dead person by double clicking the layer and editing the drop shadow. I then softened the edges as it looked to harsh. To do this, i used a soft brush just to go around the outer parts of the dead person. Then i used the bevel and emboss tool to darken any blood splatters or wounds by double clicking the layer and changing the settings on the bevel and emboss. I also put more blood on my upper lip as Mr Andrews said that it would look better so, i selected different shades of red and painted over my lips some fake blood. 

fifth

In today’s lesson, i moved the avatar into the background. First, i zoomed in on the avatar and clicked on the quick selection tool. I made sure the brush was a hard brush. i clicked and dragged the tool around the outline of my body. This did take a while to do and i found that it would  select areas i didn’t want to be selected. to get rid of this, i held down the alt key and dragged in the areas i didn’t want to be selected. I also used the  Lasso tool on the upper part of my face and around my hair as the quick selection tool wasn’t detecting that area properly. Then i clicked on the refine edge button. I smoothed out the ragged edges by adjusting the smooth to around 20-30. I turned on smart radius and changed it to 1 pixel. I also set the feather to 1 pixel. I made sure to output that image as a new layer with layer mask. Then i used the move tool to drag the image of myself and dragged it to the background that i previously made. I resized and moved the image using the free transform tool. I decided to bring the avatar character closer to the screen a) to cut out the st. hildas logo and b) to make it look as if its from a scene in a horror movie when the zombie pops out at you. I made sure a bit of the middle window was still on show as i didn’t want the avatar to fully cover it. 

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In today’s lesson, i worked on making the background for my avatar and putting the avatar into the background. The main background i decided to use was an abandoned mental hospital room with a bed and three windows. The overall image was already black and white so i didn’t have to fiddle too much with the settings and make it look similar to my own image. I adjusted the brightness. I took 2 images to use in the windows as the windows in the original image weren’t what i wanted. One of them was a park and the other was a canal and trees. I used the free transform tool to resize and move the images to fit on top of the original windows. The two images worked together well and it looks like its from the same place. Then, i looked for a broken window on google as i couldn’t find any that i wanted to work with on flickr. Once i found what i wanted to use, i opened it on photoshop. to make the windows look as if they are each broken in different areas, i used the free transform tool to flip the window or rotate it. Doing this makes it look like i took three different images for the window when really, i only used 1. To finish off the image, i took an image of a dead man off google and put it near the window to make it look as if Erica had just finished her meal. 

left window 

middle and right window

main background

broken window

third

To darken up any wounds and make the blood drips look more realistic, i used the colour picker tool to select colours and darken up the blood splatters. I also changed the colour to royal reds and other shades of red to make the blood look more realistic. I had to make sure to create a new mask on whichever layer i was working on to be able to do this. I then created a new layer and started doing the eyes. I used the pen tool to select the parts of my eyes that i wanted to be black. Then i right clicked the selected area, make selection and left it on the default settings and hit okay. then i clicked select > refine edge to make sure the eye didn’t have jagged edges. I brought up the feathering a little bit to soften the edges and also brought up the contrast. I pressed shift + delete to bring up the fill tool and selected black and hit okay. to deselect i clicked command + D.

 

second

In today’s lesson, i started working on the blood marks that i would use in my avatar. I took a dripping blood effect off of google since i couldn’t find any ones that suited what i wanted to use on flickr or any other creative commons websites and made a new layer. Then i used the free transform tool to resize the image and place it around the area i wanted it to be. I set this on multiply  I clicked the transform button on the top right hand corner of the page on photoshop to distort the blood to a way where it would look as if the blood was dripping out of my mouth. I added a few other blood splatters around the avatar’s face and on the avatar’s shirt. I set all of these blood marks on multiply so it would get rid of the white background and also to make the blood look more realistic. I changed the opacity in some of the blood splatters. 

first lesson making avatar

First off, i opened my image that Mr Andrews took of me on photo shop. It came up with the camera raw automatically and i adjusted my skin tone and overall skin colour on that. Since i was looking for more of a zombie look, i looked at images from the walking dead and grave encounters to see the basic skin colour of a zombie. I edited out any of my imperfections and blemishes using the Healing Brush tool. Since i had dark under eyes in the image, i left it alone as i was looking for the zombie effect and zombie’s usually have darker under eye areas. I then went on to make a new adjustment layer to darken the image even more. to do this, i clicked on Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Black and White. For the reds, i set it to around -140 and the 

yellows to around 100. I left all the other settings at default. I decreased the opacity to around 80% on this layer so it wasn’t too harsh. Then, i took an image from the internet of a wood texture and copied and pasted it onto the image. I used the free transform tool (Command T) to resize the image of the texture and move it around to where i wanted it to go. then, i turned down the opacity. Then i created a new mask on that layer and erased the parts of the texture image that i didn’t want (using a hard brush and the colour black to remove) and left myself with a wound on the top right corner of my forehead. I had two wood textures to choose from and i ended up choosing the second one. 

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First lesson working on avatar

In todays lesson, i started editing my image on photoshop for the assignment. I did basic things for this lesson such as removing blemishes using the Healing brush tool that i've used a number of times throughout this term. Before doing any of this, I used camera raw to edit the image's colour according to what i wanted the overall colour of the image to be. On my character profile, i have stated that my character has grey, pale skin. To do this, i adjusted the temperature, exposure, shadows, whites, blacks and etc. i pretty much played with all the settings.

What is an avatar?

Computing: An avatar is a graphic representation of a person in cyberspace.

Hinduism: an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to Earth, or a descent of a supreme being and is mostly translated in to english as incarnation, but more accurately as appearance or manifestation. The term VATAR means one who was descended - descended from Godliness to human form. Avatar means those who descended to Earth from the Spiritual world. 

Emotions Exercise - Anxiety

The similarities in these three images are that all three women have both of their hands around the forehead area. They are looking both stressed and angry. They also look as if they are at unease & worry. 

http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/anxiety.jpg (10/03/14)

http://beta1.sandiegofamilytherapy.net/wpcontent/uploads/2010/12/Anxiety.jpg

(10/03/14)

http://howtogetridofanxiety.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img720.jpg

(10/03/14)

Emotions Exercise - excited

In these 3 image examples of the emotion ‘excited’, the children have their mouth open in an circle-ish shape. Their eyes are often slanted or half closed. Hands are used in some way in these three photos - whether it’d be on their face or out in the air. They are looking very enthusiastic and eager.

http://melotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/excited.jpg (10/03/14)

http://www.arcashflow.com.au/wpcontent/uploads1/2011/04/Fotolia_4401266_S.jpg (10/03/14)

 

http://hypescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/hr_excited_baby.jpg (10/03/14)

Emotions Exercise - Sadness

What is evident in these 3 images is that the people that show sadness have their heads down or are looking down at the floor. They may have tears forming in their eyes or their hand on their head. In the third photo, the woman is already crying. this is evident because her nose is flared and there is a tear rolling down her cheek. Her eyes are also closed. In the first and second photo, the 2 people are looking down at the floor. 

http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00a/00aSm5-471739584.jpg (10/03/14)

http://allourworldviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/p1110403.jpg (10/03/14)

caphttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/kcIBu2F24Jg/TWGjKBvc9gI/AAAAAAAAAEU/B_uXav5o2Cg/s1600/Sad+Woman%2527s+Face.jpgtion
(10/03/14)

Hermione Granger Photoshop

In this lesson, i got introduced to Photoshopping celebrities/people to fix imperfections. Since we were just starting with fixing imperfections, the whole class used the same image of Hermione Granger which was available on BlackBoard. I learnt that it is important to always use high resolution photos on photoshop so i am able to see the photos clearly even when the image is zoomed in. We were taught to use the spot healing tool to fix any small blemishes. But, there was a better tool that Mr Andrews showed us that was much more helpful and effective when it comes to editing images to fix blemishes. This was the Healing Brush Tool. All you had to do was select a clear spot in the face with a similar color (by holding onto the alt key). She had a few blemishes and a darker under eye area which i fixed by using the healing brush tool.

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28/02/14

In today’s Media Arts lesson, 

Mr Powell was our substitute teacher, for the first 3/4 of the lesson, he showed us images to inspire us for our upcoming assignment. Afterwards, i kept doing my image of harry styles. I retouched more of his smaller imperfections using the healing brush tool. Over the night, i watched videos on youtube of how to whiten teeth on photoshop. I made a new layer for his teeth and with the skills i learnt, i whitened harry styles teeth using the Lasso Tool. with this tool, i made a rough outline of his teeth, i tried getting as close as i could to the teeth. Then i clicked on brightness and contrast on the right hand side of the page. i decreased the level of contrast and increased the level of brightness to create the illusion of whiter teeth.  At first, i didn’t create a new layer before whitening his teeth therefore it made it had for me to see the difference in the colour of his teeth before and after so i had to start again. In the next lesson i would like to change the colour of his eyes. I also changed the brightness of the image making his skin lighter and closer to what it really looks like in real life.

Today's Lesson

Last weeks lesson

Celebrity touching up - Harry Styles with slight changes using liquify tool - 25/02/14

To start off with, i used the healing brush tool to remove any imperfections. Then, i liquified the image (subtly filter > Liquify… / ^command x) with the liquifying tool, i fixed up the outer parts of his face making some parts extend and decreasing some parts in size. I also had to make sure i made a new layer and mask for liquifying his face so i could see the difference in what i was doing.

I didn't have any trouble in today's lesson since i did basic things in photoshop that I've already done before.

Things i could improve on - if i were to do this image again, i would take care with liquifying his face and making it not look too visible because the longer i look at the image, the more i can tell that his face has been liquified. Especially on the far right side of his face.  

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original image

24/02/14

In today's media arts class:

- i selected the parts of kim kardashians face using the quick selection tool.

- added a new layer with a mask of the parts that i selected

- changed the brush to a soft brush

- (in black colour i softened the edges) 

- image > adjustments > brightness/contrast & colour balance.

- on color balance i set the mode of tone balance to mid tones and then selected preserve luminosity.

the colour levels ended up being +9 +2 -28

The point of editing this image and what i was trying to achieve was to change her skin colour to match what the rest of her body colour is because it is usually a lot darker than what is shown in the original photo.

 I could improve this image by taking more time on making sure the edges were properly softened.

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