Surrealism "I'm Puzzled"

Theme: Surrealism I’m Puzzled
I find Surreal Imagery very interesting, my Image “I’m Puzzled” is one of my dreams I had a while ago. The longer I look at it the more I understand what it represents to me. As all art I believe you can find a meaning in an image, depending on your mood when looking at it, one day versa a other you might see something entirely different. In this Image I try to make the Kight with the puzzle pieces flying off it, to be my focal point. The Puzzle pieces have the image of my face reflection on it. The kight made of glass making it look very fragile, and leaving me feeling blown away, and coming apart. The tail of the kight has some of the shapes that I created with Photoshop Vector and pen tools. The wall below water is one of the elements that represents blocked paths in my life and actually painted the wall with acrylics and scanned it, to implement it into this art.
I think, all this is coming from being separated from my husband.

S U R R E A L IS M project:
Theme Self Image, What other don’t see what I see about myself, and How the mind is a puzze work of connecting peaces, that not neceserely fit together all the time.
Image requirements, Bitmap Graphict, Photographs, Scanned drawings, scanned, objectss, pen tool: to cut out my head


week 5: {June 29 - July 3}Lesson 11:Thursday, July 2MORE ESSENTIALS
HW 10 Surreal Image Requirements:Use a combination of bitmap graphics such as; photographs, scanned drawings, scanned small objects... and the pen tool to create a surreal image. Remember an important component in surreal imagry is a fantastical juxtaposition of subject matter. For example, a cow with wings flying over the moon, an airplane flying over a toaster :-)Try using some of the techniques demonstrated in the video tutorials. The piece can be photographic in nature, illustrative, or a mix. BUT THERE MUST BE EVIDENCE OF AT LEAST TWO VECTOR OBJECTS CREATED WITH THE PEN TOOL IN THIS GRAPHIC.
Save in jpeg format {file>save for web} and in the subject field of the email put your last name and first initial with the number of the homework.
Example: McIntosh J-HW10 surreal Please use this format for each assignment that you email me throughout the semester.

CRISTAL CLEAR

Theme: Cristal Clear
I used Pop Dots to create the light separation behind the text “GOD IS MY ROCK” Clipping mask to cut out text from the chandelier. I also used the clipping from a duplicate chandelier “CLEAR” to add the sky. The chandelier I found at Google Image and the Rock is a picture I took in Half Moon Bay, I created this Image for a friend of mine, she thought the rock looked like hands together.

Fruit Spa

Image Theme: Fruit Spa,

Blur adjustment entire Image with Luminance. Masks and Layers, The pink fountain image I used twice, but with different Blur options, to see the difference in creating depth without having shadows. All the images to create this art I down loaded from Google Image. The text is a clipping mask to separate the two words going slightly from dark to light. A lot of the detail parts, I resized, changed color, and used the screen option to make it see through. I came about creating this, a coworker’s child wanted a Punch Fountain Birth Day party. I created the invitation cards for the party.

BLUE FLOWER

Theme: Blue flower with orange butterfly’s flying into distance
McIntosh J-Homework 4 Photoshop
All the pictures I used are my original pictures
Blue Flower Picture Details: Butterfly Picture Details:
Date created 3/12/2006 2/20/2009
File Size 628 KB 1.49MB
Dimensions 1704X2272 2048X1536
Dimensions 9.5”X12.6” 28.4”X21.3”
Resolution 180ppi 72ppi
Bit Dept 8 8
Color RGB RGB
Color Profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1 sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Camera PowerShot A520 Digital Other Digital
Exposure Mode Auto Auto
Focal Length 23.2 mm 46.7 mm

I chose 7 pictures for this project.
I used the blue flower for the back ground and several pictures of butterfly’s in different positions. I user some of the pictures twice, and used the arbitrary rotation to get them in the position I wanted. I also resized the butterfly’s to make it look like some are flying away in the distance, by using image size. I rather work with the percent than inches, by changing the amount in the Document Size width percent, I will be able to resize all my butterfly’s in different sizes. I’m absolutely in love with the Magnetic lasso tool, I use this function to wrap around the butterfly with some back ground still attached. After moving the butterfly over on the back ground, selected Inverse, than “holding down the Shift Key”, I am still able to move my butterfly around and place it in the right spot. It still looks a bit messy, because part of the back ground is still attached, but by zooming in by 200, I am able to go around the edges and clean it up with the erase tool. I can choose the size of the erase tool, to quickly get rid of big chunks, or with the small size, get into little corners. I kept the edges very sharp, for the end result to look like the butterfly’s are flying of the monitor, and it gives it a 3D effect.

Finished piece Image details:
File Name (Blue Flower With Butterfly’s.psd)
170x2272
22.89 MB
180 ppi
RGB/sRGB

Animal Abuse Awareness

Working with Photoshop Vectors:

I just love the diversity of so many options, like blending, mixing, and matching. I find it a very artistic friendly environment.

Advantage

1. It gives nice clean edges

2. With using text, it makes it better readable

3. Able to mix shapes or letters with back ground texture

Change letters hue, saturation and brightness (HSB)

Joan of Arc Photoshop Mid-term-proposal

My Theme:

The collage graphic is about a short biography of Joan of Arc, her real Name "Jehanne d'Arc" she was considered a Hero and a Saint.

Photoshop tools I used:

The following tools are, Sopt healing, Image Crop, Magnetic and Polygonal Lasso, Ellipical Marquee, Horizontal Type, Magic wand, Move, Edit transform, Scale, Rotate, Shew, Distort, perspective, Wrap, Flip H and V.

Visual Theme:

Capture the courageous young woman in the middle agas.

Color Schemes:

I used Magenta as my overall color ny changing the image, adjustments and colorbalance for every layar. The corrections are made with adjusting the, shadow, midtones, and highlights.

NIGHTLIFE IN FRANKFURT

Nightlife in Frankfurt

Theme 12B: Frankfurt Night Life, Focal Point Text Clipping and Drop shadow, Pen Selection Tool was used to past the Man in Drag in to the city see. I played with the colors of the city until I got this neon light effect.