Blog #5

1. What is the most significant accomplishment in looking at your Midterm or Final? You can talk about technique in Photoshop, investigating your Big Idea, creating a meaningful artwork, etc.

      

       I believe I have made significant progress in feeling confident in my Photoshop abilities. From the midterm to the Final, I used more advance tools a such as selecting pieces of an image from one picture and placing it onto my major image then warping it instead of erasing sections of an image and placing an image with low opacity over top it. I also think I really focused my Big Idea of technological conflict into a clear and precise idea that is easily readable and extremely meaningful since it is something that most people can reference to Adam and Eve, knowledge and humanity's destruction . 

2. Choose a project in the class and discuss your most challenging learning experience in Photoshop. Focus on a technique or concept from Photoshop that was difficult at first, but that you mastered by the end of the quarter.

       My most challenging learning experience would be remembering all the tools and which tool to use when. In the project of Photoshop-ing a face, I became overwhelmed with how to create a more popping eye ball. I however learned with the individual help by Ms. Mattox to select the iris, use the burn tool then get the white paint brush and create a glare in the pupil. 

3. Compare two projects from the quarter to compare and contrast how you achieved making meaning in the work. Try to showcase in your examples an improved capacity to making visual images that mean something as opposed to being a showcase of technique.

My blog #2 tutorial image of a tree I had to transform in some way is a good example of making something to showcase technique verses an actual meaning. I tried to make the image as different as possible from the original without making it too complex and to me, the tree looks not that good. I did however use the liquify,burn tool, gradient and clone stamp tools fairly well. Compared to my second image of my midterm or my first image of my final, it is night and day for what they represent to a mere technique art piece. For the 2nd image of my Midterm, the rising sun with a funeral type image of a gun sticking in the dirt stating " Make Art, Not War" as the American flag is overlaid on top of the image carries a very powerful meaning to anyone who knows how damaging war is to the American people and how we should try to find alternative ways to direct conflict. My 1st image of my Final of the women about to bite the world with wires encircling it speaks a word of caution about our reliance on technology and the possible negative applications technology can have on our earth whether it be polluting it or using it to create weapons for warfare. In both cases, the meaning of the projects made the projects and help supplement the image instead of the image's technique being its only significance.