Realistic Shadows

Realistic Shadows: Puppy power

For this project I chose a picture of this puppy from morgue files.com. I used the tutorial given to us by Mrs. Lofquist to direct me in making this shadow. From this assignment I learned how to make a realistic looking shadow on an image that did not originally have a shadow.

Tonightx2 Music video

Tonightx2

The Project

The scope of this project was to create a 90 second music video. We first wrote down ideas about songs and shots that we liked.

My process

Once we chose the song Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae we began to watch other music videos and create a selection of screenshots of shots we liked. Then we began to storyboard our ideas. It took us over a week to film all of the shots we needed and about another week to create our own edits.

What i learned

During this process i learned how to cooperate with others when coming up with ideas. Also I learned how set clips to the beat of the music. If I could do something differently I would have shot the music video outside of school. I would keep the same song and the main plot line. From this experience I will take the shot ideas we came up with and the new things I learned in final cut to enhance my next project. I am very pleased with the outcome  of this music video. We all worked very hard on this project.

Journey to the Floating Mountain

Journey to the Floating Mountain

For this project we were to take a picture of this rock formation that was originally in water and add it to a picture of the sky. We used the quick selection tool to select the mountain and then used refine edge to make the trees and the edge smoother. I put a cloud in front of the bottom of the mountain to make it look more realistic. After I finished all of that i added a moon and flowers and also a title and my name.

This screenshot shows the image before any of the masks were added. This is the original images put together. 

This image shows what the image looks like after the hue and saturation was changed. 

In this lesson I learned how to use the refine edge tool and how to use hue/saturation to add effects to the image. During this project I learned how to properly use the quick selection tool. there were a lot of layers and different images used for this project so I learned how to properly organize my layers. http://www.morguefile.com this is the link to the site that I used to get the moon and flowers. Next time i do this project I would spend more time making my cloud more realistic looking. I would choose the same moon. From this experience I will take the skills and tools I learned how to use.

Creative Spheres

 Creative Spheres 

Circles are flat objects and spheres are 3D. Circles have no depth and spheres can go all the way around an object. 
When I started all three of these projects I first sketched them in my sketchbook. I chose the tutorials based off of what i had done with my sketches. 
Photoshop and illustrator are very different. Illustrator uses vector and saves as a PDF. It also has a better pen tool and you don't have to select a layer to work on it. Photoshop is a Bit map-pixels. It has the marquee tool which illustrator does not have. Photoshop also uses masks and you save it as a JPEG




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHq6F9djUlU

This Sphere didn't take very long to make.
 It simply used a pattern and the 3D tool.

http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/create-a-nice-3d-ball/5131 Photoshop


This sphere was off a tutorial just like the first one. I first created the pattern and then duplicated it and turned it to 45 degrees. After I did that then I started to play around with the gradients to see which colors look best with the background.


















This sphere was my own personal design. I started by making the pattern and then made it 3D and duplicated the layer turning it so it looked round.