Photoshop Tutorial

The assignment was to find a cool tutorial for Adobe Photoshop. I looked through a lot of tutorials and saw this one, Photoshop Tutorial. It shows you how to turn a normal photo into a mystical, dreamy effect. 

It's a simple task and it's fun to play around with. This is a great tutorial that can help a photo or anything seem surreal or mystical. Check out this site for more tutorials--->Tutorials

Optical Toys - Thaumatrope

  Thaumatrope was one of the first optical toys that have been invented. The purpose of this toy was to provide entertainment. John A. Paris had invented this in 1825. Thaumatrope was also known as "Turning Marvel" and " Wonder Turner".  

    The site made for this topic is very plain and boring. It's white and black. When I first saw this site, I thought that it was very plain and didn't catch my attention. It would be more exciting to look at if they used different colours and maybe a pattern or design to express what the sites about. Although, the information given was clear and thorough. It had great information about the different devices like: who it was made by, why it was made and how it works.

    The toy I liked was the one you see above called "Thaumatrope".  This toy is created by a disk, two strings attached to it and drawings on the disk. It works by you pulling the strings and it creates the drawings as if they were on top of each other. 

My Photoshop Trial

  This is my Photoshop trial. The purpose of this assignment was to get to know the basics of using Photoshop. It was a lot of fun to do and learn about.

  The first thing I did was to figure out what I was going to do it on. I chose to do it on a girl walking on a rainbow. It's pretty surreal. I found a photo of a rainbow by a beach. It's a nice scenery aswell. That photo became my backround. The next thing I did was find a photo of a girl walking. The girl walking became my second layer. I found a photo but I had to take out the backround. So to do this I used the Magic Wand tool. This tool easily takes out pieces of a photo by simply clicking wherever you click. It was a very easy and simple tool to use. I also used the Quick Selection tool to get the small pieces out of the photo.

  Overall this process was easy and I look forward to using Photoshop more often. I also look forward to creating more detailed photos using this awesome program. Hoped you enjoyed! :)

  



My Prezi Presentation!

Check out my presentation on Yves Tanguy! He was a French Surreal artist.
He's pretty amazing.
P.S Prezi is awesome :)

My Presentation On Yves Tanguy <----- Check it out!!

My Chess Piece

  This is my chess piece that I drew for my CyberARTS class. My chess piece had to have a sense of movement, pattern and value in the back round and the chess piece itself. The assignment also included a point of view so where you were looking at chess piece from. My point of view or angle was eye level. The chess piece had light on the right, shadow in the middle, a small amount of light on the right side and a bit of shadow on the very right.

  The assignment as I said before needs to include a sense of movement and pattern in the back round. I think the piece shows movement because it leads your eye from the bottom to the top. I also did the swirly lines in a way that it brings your eyes to the main focus, the chess piece. Pattern in my back round is the repetition of swirly lines. It repeats four times and has different variety of length and value in the lines. I think the value in the swirly type of lines creates a nice variety of value with shades of lights and darks. For the variety of value I used a HB, 2B & 6B pencil.

  Overall I'm happy with the outcome and I think it illustrates realistic characteristics in the chess piece itself like the value. I think I could have done better with the value and try and make the different values blend in better. Hope you enjoyed my art! :)

Composition in Our Photography

This picture shows pattern. This factor is created by repeating the diamond shape in the fence. It also leads your eyes diagonal and creates a lot of movement. The backround is the grass and the green color really makes the silver in the fence stand out which is also contrast.

This picture represents one of the composition rules which was the rule of thirds. This is shown by drawing 3 horizontal lines and 2 vertical lines. Where ever the lines intersect is where an important point of the picture should be. In this case the lines intersect around where the tackle is(people on the ground), number 90 on the gray team and number 33 on the gray team. Those are the main focuses of the photo.

This picture represents the diagonal rule. This is shown by the gray team, number 56 in the bottom right corner and the rest of the people going to the left. The line does not go all the way to the opposite side but is still moving in the direction. This leads your eye from the bottom right to the left and ends off with a big group of people on the side lines. This photo also shows perspective.

My Logo

My Logo

  The first step we had to do was research our name. My name, Alisha, means Noble and protected by god. My last name, Ganga,  means river water. I chose to base my logo on  the qualities/words protected by god and river water. 

  
  With the qualities/words I chose, I came up with waves. This represents my last name which means river water. Long, wavy waves. I used direction to figure out what would look best or best describe my qualities. By doing that, I came to a conclusion that I would use waves and use them in a horizontal format. I chose to illustrate each wave with two lines and use a different type of color which was a sky blue and dark blue. By choosing two different colors it shows contrast between light and dark. This also makes the waves stand out. The person walking on water symbolizes a god like figure which in my opinion is a holy and spiritual figure. In reality, no one can actually walk on water.

   In my logo the colors used are a sky blue and dark blue. Blue usually represents or reminds you of water. This relates to my name because my last name means river water. The line quality of the waves are thick, curvy and horizontal. The lines also show sturdiness and they're confident lines. The typography used in this logo is my name in the font "Futura"and the size of font is 14 pt. The typography in my logo illustrates confident and strong. I personally thought that adding the blue outline will represent my name being "protected" which is one of the meanings, protected by god. By adding the blue outline my name also stands out. Like i previously said, my logo represents water and protected by god. The waves used in my logo show water. The person walking on water represents a god-like figure. Walking on water in some religions is a holy and spiritual act. The person walking on water also illustrates that in reality no one can actually walk on water but being protected by god, it shows that god is helping/protecting the person over the water.

   The technical part of this process was to draw thumbnails in our sketchbook. I came up with several ideas and then it was to go on to Adobe Illustrator. This is a tool that is used on the computer to create art or "draw" on the computer. There are different tools like the paint brush, pencil, crop, lines, and many more. Illustrator is an amazing tool and i recommend it to anyone.

  Overall I'm happy with my logo and I think i showed my characteristics accuratly. My logo is creative and I hope it inspires people to try and create their own logos!

  Hope you enjoyed my journey to create my logo!! :)