Avatar Media Year 9 Reflection.

Creative Media Yr 9 - Photoshop  – Term 01 2011

Mr Andrews

Avatar Reflection/evaluation:  Claire Green

Respond to each of the following dot points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the creation and editing of your avatar. These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, knowledge of Photoshop tools issues. etc;

In the process of editing and creating my avatar I did along the process encounter with a few problems, such as : Not knowing what I was going to do for it, Finding the right picture on flickr that would be best for an overlay texture and also I found it a bit difficult to blend the colours together for the background.

Explain whether your planning and organisation (of ideas, files, inspiration) helped during the technical creation;

Yes, the planning and organisation did help as it gave me a base to work with and it was easy and good to look at so I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Discuss whether you made effective use of the provided profile template to organise and prepare the required image assets and assist in the creative decision making process;

I do think this profile template helped me to organise and prepare as it really makes you think over the decisions of the photo and also its process, it also helped me be more creative when it came to making different ideas.

Clarify any time-management issues you encountered during the process and describe the steps you implemented to improve in this area;

I did have some time management issues with this as I had to start over again as I did not like my first idea so starting over did make some time management problems, A way I could have improved for that was before I started to really think over my idea before Starting.

Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like a whole terms worth of work);

Yes, I do think I did enough reflections throughout the project, Though if I could go back I would have put more detail into them. I would have also tried harder to make them for adequate.

List any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project.

Liquify, Cut, mask, change the eye colour, texture,overlays, erase, always have the black and white down the bottom.

Discuss your feelings about the Avatar task:

Are you satisfied with the final result?

Yes, I am satisfied with my final result as It does reflect me and goes (in my opinion) well together.

Would like to change any aspects of your avatar?

If I was to change anything I would have changed my eye colours to a different colour to reflect more of the background.

If you could start the project again what would you do differently?

I would have chosen to do a different personality, something darker and a character that was not at all like myself as It would be more fun and I could add more ideas to it.

Are you pleased with the progress you have made in using Photoshop?

I am pleased as now I know all of the different tools, I know how to overlay, add texture, crop, liquify and move the photo. I am very pleased and I hope to learn more about photoshop and learn new different techniques.

Final Photo.

This is my final edit for my 2014 photoshop assignment for media arts.


It represents myself as I am like the seasons. Summer for the bright and bubbly side of myself, winter for the dark and cold shy side of myself. And the overlay texture on my clothes and face represents the two seasons put together to make myself.

assignment for media arts 2014.

In media Arts last week, We were working on our photoshop assignments.


I had a few problems as I did not know what I Was going to do for mine. After redoing my photoshop project I now have a different ''character''.

My assignment has to different sides, one is winter (the side of myself that is shy and cold and sometimes dark) Also because I enjoy winter.

then I have my summer side ( the bright and happy and bubbly side of myself) I Also did this as I enjoy summer.

And than I will apply another texture which will be spring, the side of myself that is me all together, shy, happy all put in one.

Media Arts Assignment

In media arts this term, we are learning how to use photoshop.
For our assignment we have to make a photo edit of something that represents our personality.

For my assignment I Have a picture of myself smiling casually. For my personality side, I am making an edit of how I love the different seasons of the weather and how it can also represent personality sides.

Winter - angry
Summer - Happy

I thought this would be a good and creative idea to use for my assignment and use the tools that we have been learning to make this.

What Is an Avatar?

what is an avatar? - media arts question.
There are two different types of avatars and two different definitions.

definitions :

- a manifestation of a deity or released soul in bodily form on earth; an incarnate divine teacher.

- an icon or figure representing a particular person in a computer game, Internet forum, etc.

Changing A photo's emotions.

In media class, we have been using the tool ‘’liquify’’ to mix the pictures emotions. I have done this to a random image of a cat.. I have done this by making the cats eyes bigger i have made its face look sad by lowering it's eye lids and mouth.

the following image is included below :

Sloth and A Tiger Photoshop.

In class we have been working on how to morph animals
together and create different patterns. I have done the following to a sloth and a tiger. I have chosen a tiger and a sloth because of the colours they look similar and thats why it would be easier to mix and blend the colours and pictures together.
The image is included below :

Media arts.

In media arts we have learnt a new cool effect which is how to change the eye colour.


I have done this to one direction member zayn malik, his eyes are brown but with photoshop i have made his eyes blue. I have included the picture below.


To do this you use the mask tool, you also need to make a few layers, after you trace the eye you copy it and paste it onto a new layer
you then press the adjustment bottom up the top and then change and transform to hue and saturation, as you have done that you then make sure there is a tick on colorize and that allows you to change the colour of the eye to whatever colour you wish.


I had a lot of fun learning how to do this and the accomplishing it.

colours.

Today in media arts.




In our media arts class, we have learnt that there is two colours you need. black and white.

these two colours are displayed down the left hand side, you need to be careful which one you put at the front and which one behind as when you are erasing something the colour which is in front can determine how the picture might come out with a black line or if it works properly.


also we are learning about how to change the eye colour in our upcoming media arts class.

Today in class.

we have learnt a lot of different tools over the past weeks such as :

liquify : it changes the way the picture looks and can change the emotions on such pictures face.

the mask tool
the eraser tool : we do not use this tool as it is not the best one to use as you can't get back what you deleted.
we have learned how to layer one photo on top of another.
we have learned how to blend to photos together by clicking on one layer and adjusting the colour to fit the other one.

we have learned how to crop and rotate a photo using the free transform tool.

we have also learned how to fix blemishes with the healing tool.

all these techniques we use are extremely helpful and are going to be used in our upcoming assignment.

Learning new tools

In media class we were learning how to use the liquify tool. this tool lets you make different effects to the photo, an example would be a models face, we learned how to make the face look happy or sad by just making the eyes bigger or smaller or even making the mouth into a smile shape.

my first go at the liquify tool was on model Adriana lima.

I made her face look extremely different and look like a cartoon character.


The picture that i edited is below.