Newimal

This is my newimal project that requires you to take and mix up to or more animal parts. I enjoyed doing this project a lot as it was very interesting to do and allowed me to show my creativity. I feel my project was really succesful giving the difficulties it took me to get the final result. What worked well with this project was how easy it was to combine the animal parts so they'd go well with each other. The most difficult part of this project was trying to make the newimal more realistic by making the bodies color match and  make it look more realistic and matching up the colors and correctly combining the body parts without exposing to much of the replaced body part. I learned from this project was how to better make and edit fictional pictures but make them look realistc.

Four Shapes

This project is my four shapes project. This project was a creative way to make fourdifferent shapes into common objects. I feel my project was successful in mimicking common known objects by using shape tools then putting them on top of each other and using various gradient styles. What worked well with this project was the gradients coloring style and shape tools to give the shapes more realistic. The most difficult part of this project was correctly placing the gradient on the shapes and placing the multiple shapes on the originals. I learned how to place gradient styles in a more controlled manner and how to better refine shaping tool objects.

For tutorial: http://vimeo.com/27539488

Shine

This is my shine project. This was a fun project that showed how make a false reflection of an object in the image. I feel this project was really successful and convincing  the viewer to believe it truly is an actual reflection of of the apple. What worked well with this project was the canvas sizing tool that allowed to scale and line up the copied image of the apple and the gradient tool that overlapped then colored over the image and made it look faded and reflective. If i were to do this project over i would have used a different object in the image other than the apple. I learned from this project how to create a convincing reflective image by simply making a copy then altering it.

For tutorial: http://vimeo.com/25045051

Colorize

This is my Colorized dancer project. This project was so far my favorite and the most fun to do. I feel this was one of my best works mostly for the fact there was a little chance for one to actually fail doing it correctly. What worked really well for this project was the Threshold and Blur tools that allowed the colors to shade and smoothen on the picture so the colors would appear to blend in the image. From this project i learned how to do better color overlays onto images in a certain way

For tutorial: http://vimeo.com/24933979

Animal Splatter

This is my animal splatter project. I think i did well overall on this project. i feel my work is mildly succesful beacause i didn't getthe splattered paint to look more realistic on the animal. What really worked well with this project was the warp tool as it helped to better scale the splatter image onto the animal and make it appear to wrap around the animal more naturally. What didn't work was a previous picture i tried to use but could not correctly warp the splatter image on it proportionally. If i were to do this project over i would consider using a different animal of a more lighter and antural color and a darker and more widespread splatter image to better cover the animal with. The most difficult part was deciding which animal it would have been the easiest to put a splattered image onto. I learned about different layering modes and how they can better make one image lie ontop of one another to make a fictional edited image look more realistic. 

For a tutorial: http://vimeo.com/25030580