Mosaic Photo Editing

Steps to Creating a Mosaic Photo:
ahotoshop:
1. Choose one main photo and two to three other photos
2. Use the rectangular marquee to crop the persons face out of the main photo.
3. Now go to the image menu and press crop.
4. Now we are going to crop the other photos. Use the crop tool (not the rectangular marquee tool) to crop the other faces of the photos. The size you crop these photos are going to depend on the size of the main photo.
5. Next, when the crop tool is selected, go up to the options bar and make the height and width 50 px (pixels).
6. Now that everything is set, you want to make a box around the other pictures of just the face. Do this to the rest of your photos except the main one which has already been completed in step two.
7. Next, go to the file menu, and click new. We are creating a new document that is twice the height and width of the photos we just cropped. So we want to make the height and width 100 x 100. Also make sure the resolution for the document is the same as it was for the photos you previously cropped.
8. Now click the move tool and move one of your photos (not the main photo) to the new document that you just created. Do this with your other photos but still not the main one. You should have a total of four photos, filling the whole document.
9. Next, flatten the image. This should be the new document that you created.
10. Go to the image menu and click on adjustments and then click desaturate. This will make the photos black and white.
11. Now we have to make this image a pattern. You can do this by going to the edit menu and clicking on the define pattern. This brings up the pattern name dialogue box. You can name the pattern whatever you want. Then press okay.
12. Now you can go back to the main photo. Click on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. This will make a new layer.
13.  Fill in the new layer with the pattern you just created. Do this by going to the edit menu and click on fill. Select the use option to pattern, then click the down arrow and click on the photo pattern you just created.
14. Then at the bottom of the fill dialogue box, make sure the blending mode is set to normal and the opacity is set to 100%.
15. Now in the layers palette, make the blend mode set to overlay. If the pattern is a little too intense, change the blend mode to soft light rather than overlay. Or you can also change the opacity.

Main Photo

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Final Photo

Help Find a Cure

In class we have been learning about advertisments and logos. I created the advertisment about Brain Recovery. Brain Recovery is done after you have an autopsy, they will take your brain and spinal cord out and send them off to various research colleges. My dad is an autospy technician so he does this all the time. He usually sends them to the University of Jacksonville in Florida. The target audience are usually elderly people with Alzheimers, or any person with a uncurable brain disorder. I created this poster because I would like to find a cure for Alzheimers, and my dad does this as a job.
While doing my advertisment I used the text tool, transform tool, swatches, opacity, crop, color change, rotate, scale, flatten image, and lastly the move tool. The text tool is used to type on your advertisment. The transform tool is what you use for a picture, you can use that to rotate, scale, skew, distort, and many more. the swatch tool is what colors you use in your picture. The opacity is used to make the picture or color as bright or as faded as you would like. The crop tool is what you use to make a picture fit where it needs to go or as small as you want. The color change tool is what you use in the text tool, instead of using black you can use red, blue, pink, etc. The rotate tool rotates the picture however you would like it. The scale is when you make the picture stretch out or shrink in. When you flatten a picture you must be completely done with it because you can't do anything else too it. Lastly, the move tool is used when you want to move a picture to a certain place on the poster.
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Death is More than Just a Lose

My logo communicates its purpose because my father has an autopsy business and they use toe tags to name them. Not many people do autopsies so when people think of autopsies they think of what you see on TV which is not the correct image. I want people to receive the correct image of what an autopsy is and how it relates to my life.
The colors I used for my logo were red, gray, and peach. I choose these colors because when people think of an autopsy they think of red for blood, gray for the toe tag because a toe tag is really gray, and peach because that is the skin color I choose.

For my logo I used Balance, I used this because while making it I wanted both of the feet to be the same size. I also used Emphasis because I put the name in the toe tag in order to make it the toe tag stand out and to get my point across. I want people to understand that when I think of autopsy I think of something totally different than just cutting someone open I think of a life that was taken and a the story of how they died to go along with it.

What is the "Perfect" Body?

In computer class we transformed our faces on to a someone else's face. We did this to show how "fake" some pictures are in magazines and books. For me I used a picture of Jessica Simpson since we look somewhat alike me. I do not have perfect skin, makeup, or hair on a daily bases. This assignment has changed my view on magazine pictures because I used to think they were some what real but in reality they aren't at all. They change what they really look like completely. They make them tanner, skinner, bigger in certain spots, and they make there skin look perfect. In reality no one is perfect so you have to understand that all of that is done from a computer. For women and girls all around the world this sends and image of the "perfect" person. It tells us that in order to be accepted in society we need to look like that everyday. These images make women feel like they need to starve themselves to be skinny or receive plastic surgery to get rid of wrinkles. Most women are already insecure about there bodies and magazines and books make it worse. 

From my project I think I did my eyes and face really well. I worked really hard to get the correct color skin tone and it took me a while to do my eyes because they are so small. I think I could have spent more time on finding the correct color for mine and her face because we don't really have the same color skin tone. I could have spent a little more time on the placement of my face on to hers because I feel like mine looks a little awkward. Overall this project was a lot of fun and it taught me that not everything I see in magazines and books is real and I should look twice at things.

Photoshop is Not My Thing

  Recently I did a collage in Photoshop. I learned that Photoshop has many great tools. You can do anything to a picture that you want. I learned how to change color, fix red eye, fix blemishes, and crop pictures. It is good for not only fixing but creating pictures.  Photoshop is a very interesting and useful tool.

For my collage I used the crop tool, black and white tool, fix red eye tool, brightness and contrast tool, and the blemish remover tool. I cropped almost all of my photos which is when you take out parts of the picture you don't want. I fixed red eye in the picture of my sister doing a heel stretch, which is when you make the red eye on a person go away. I brightened and contrasted, which is either brightening the color of a picture or contrasting it which is making the picture darker, I brightened a couple because I didn't feel that they were bright enough. I used black and white on some because I felt that the collage needed to look more classic instead of all color. I used blemish remover because some had red spots on their faces and some don't like that. Overall it took me a while to understand Photoshop, and it took me a while to make the collage.  

My Photography !

This is an example of balance. This photo shows balance because there is an equal amount of trees on each side of the picture.

This picture is an example of what we call the Myspace angle. It is called the Myspace angle because most people on Myspace take pictures where they camera is above or below them. In this case this picture makes her head look big and her body look small.

This is an example of simplicity. It is considered simplicity because the pumpkin is the first thing you see when you look at the picture. It is the only thing that catches your eye when you look at the picture.

Podcast's are Great!

In our podcast we didn't use any other work but our own. We used our own picture, and the must we used was pre-downloaded to the computer we were using. We also made up everything we said and didn't use the Internet for anything.

I believe that downloading music is wrong. It takes money away from the artist and all of the people that help produce the music, videos, or books. It is like taking clothes from a store that is wrong and so is downloading songs from the Internet that you did not buy. Therefore, I believe copyright laws should exist. The punishments should vary for each case but there should still be a law and punishment. For example if someone only pirated 3 or 4 songs than they should just have to be a small fine and no jail time, but if someone has over 3000 songs and videos off the Internet than they should have to pay a large fine and maybe serve a little jail time. Piracy happens all the time in our society because it is so easy to do. There is no way that someone could track exactly what someone does on the Internet because as soon as that person hits send its gone forever. Another thing is that not many people know exactly what it is they are doing. If I were to ask my dad or mom what piracy is I'm sure they wouldn't have the first clue, and they wouldn't know if they have ever done it either. It also happens so much, the laws aren't enforced so many think it is legal. If someone were to use my podcast of graphic I would feel almost violated. I would feel like someone stole something from me without out even thinking twice about the person who did the work. I feel that it is much easier to just buy the CD or song of iTunes rather than have to go through all the work to get it off line.

Views on Copyright Infringment

My ideas on copyright infringement have definitely changed. I used to think that it wasn't a big deal and that it shouldn't be punished, but now I think different. Now I think it is stealing and I think that people the do it all the time and make a living out of it should be penalized. They should have to either spend three to five years in jail or pay a 250,000 dollar fine. It is wrong for someone to steal someones work without paying for it, even though the writers and singers of the songs are paid pretty well you have to think about all of the other people like the CD makers and editors. If you don't buy the song they don't get paid which is taking money away from their family.
A copyright infringement example would be the lawsuit between A&M Record and Napster. A&M Records were suing Napster for copyright infringement. A&M Records said that Napster was stealing there songs and selling them to the world. Napster had to pay 26 million dollars to the music industry in 2002. Napster also apologized. I feel that the punishment should have been way more than just apologizing and taking the website down. I feel that they should have taken the money and given it to an organization or given it to their employees.

Technology Autobiography

Technology is my best friend. I use the computer often for school. I type almost everything even if it is just a journal for Religion. I love the computer. I have only had one bad experience with it when it comes to school. I was typing an English essay and the computer shut down and I didn't save therefore, I had to retype the entire thing. That was probably my fault because I waited till the night it before it was due to start typing it. I have definitely learned my lesson. I do not wait until the last minute to type things and I always have a flash drive in the computer.
In my personal life I cannot get away from the computer. My mom always yells at me to stop texting or get off facebook or twitter. It is one of my favorite things. I have trouble doing projects for school on the computer because I somehow always get on facebook. I have never really had trouble with technology in my personal life. I might have had a phone randomly shut down on me but that's about it.
I see technology becoming greater in the future. By the time I have kids they will probably know how to work a computer better than me at 3. There might even be a cure for cancer. I don't see technology usage declining I see it increasing. I definitely don't think anyone will not know how to use a computer like now. My grandma has no clue how to use a computer and does not care that she doesn't. I believe technology is a big part of every ones life and always will be.