animation

with extra time in class, I found this tutorial on how to make an animated count down in photoshop. 

Project 1 -- Movement and Variety Collage

  Variety is the element that captures the viewers interest by changing elements within artwork, but still maintaining harmony. The way I played with Variety in this collage is by keeping the rectangle/square shape but playing with its shape and proportion. I also included images that also had the element of variety in the original piece. And to top it off, with the knowledge of text we learned today, I added variety in the text with color and size, yet maintaining a common ground to keep the text in harmony.  
 Here is explored with the element of Movement.  I first found images that clearly portrayed Movement with shapes, repetition and color value. These images directed the viewer's eye to a certain spot in the image but using the element of movement. By putting all of these images in a collage, it shows how so much movement with only a few images really makes the collage seem busy and crowded, as if you were in the middle of a large crowed. With so much going on and so much movement in each image, you can see how strong the element of movement is. And with this collage, I was able to use every tool we have learned in Photoshop. From all of the select tools, text options, transform techniques and cutting and pasting, I was able to place every image into one collage. 

class work -- Transform tool

   Here we have an image that I applied different transform tools to. By selecting a certain part of the image (in this case, the children on the donkey), I was able to rotate, stretch, distort, warp, skew and change the perspective of that image. This option in Photoshop will allow you to take any image and form it in the way to wish, making every image your own invention. Personally, this is not my favorite feature in Photoshop. While this helps with sizing of images and rotating them, the quality of the image isn't very good and the image becomes pixelated and blurry. However, this is a neat tool to learn and could make for a funny photo of friends and family!