Working with the tpye tool

Design log
Experimenting with the type tool in Photoshop. I did not know that by simply using the rasterize tool would open up all of the available tools Photoshop has to offer. In this case I used mainly the distort and skew tool for the text.
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Source poem

Visual Culture Remix

Design Log
  
     It's painfully obvious that Photoshop has altered our visual culture. Potentially every  magazine picked up in a store demonstrates this. Humans are far from perfect, some of us have blotchy skin, uneven skin tones, or perhaps pimples and zits. On these magazine cover pages, a human is portrayed as perfection, yet in real life, most of these people look like your everyday average Joe (watch TMZ for proof). Photoshop does not limit it self to celebrities. Take a look at Facebook. Profile pictures are often edited to enhance oneself. For example, a fat person edits them self to look skinnier. A flat chested teen may enhance her breast. A scrawny man may try to give himself more muscle mass. All in all, these altered images give the illusion that these editors are fake. Here's what America is truly about : hamburgers, hotdogs, football, freedom, tax, and hope. I have combined all of these elements into one collage with the statue of liberty's lamp shinning bright as a central focus. The images are divided into three paths to show what they represent. The football player represents entertainment, statue of liberty represents freedom, and uncle same represents tax (yuck).

Source images
Football player
Burger
Hot Dog
Uncle Sam
Bright Light
Statue of liberty
Shattered Glass
Flag

Aged Photo

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After

Design Log

Overall goal was to edit a photo so that it looked like the worlds first photograph in terms of composition. I experimented with the levels and exposure to reduce the light and amount of shades presented in the image. I also added noise to give it a grainy look and a blur so that the image would not look so crisp.

I love the calculation function of Photoshop. It was beyond easy to cut and paste together crisp images.
Photos were all taken from these websites:

Background

Moon

2nd tree

Woman standing

Feathers

Photo Edge Transfer Effect

Photo transfer effects onto a previously used photo to give it a sense of aging.

Blurs and Depth Perception

Photograph of (from left to right) my great aunt linda, aunt beamie (sherbeam) and new edition to the family, my cousin siri. I used an iris blur on the image to add emphasis to my family.

Using the same photo I applied another blue, but this time it only applies to the background. The buildings and everything presented above my aunts have been given a blur to add to a sense of depth.

Here is the original photograph which was taken by my aunt Peung.