Visual Design Journal by Dayanna Arias

    In this trip, I saw many interesting things that caught my eye. The museum was split into different sections such as the medieval times, Ancient Greece, etc. While in the museum I saw many different paintings that meant many different things and were created in unique ways. One of the first paintings that we saw was the one of a cow looking at another painting of a cow that was called "The Innocent Eye Test" by Mark Tansey. This painting was made because the  human experts wonder if the cow can distinguish artifice from reality. Another painting that we saw was by an artist called Chuck Close. This painting was very fascinating because up close it looked like it was made by thousands of pixels but in reality it was done by finger painting. Another sculpture that we saw was one that looked to be made with wood but in reality it was made with aluminium and it was an orange red colour and it was made to connect with whoever was seeing it and it gave you different emotion...

    What I did in this project is that I used the quick selection tool to select Harry's body completely. I then created a mask of what I selected. I duplicated the layer of the inverse of what I selected in the beginning. I proceeded to use 8 images to fill in the white space that was left where the body should be. The 8 images had to me things that represented him. The images I used were of his movie poster: Dunkirk, the band he was in which was One Direction, The sweater he has which included all of his tattoos, a music note since he is a singer, a picture of his microphone that he always uses, a picture of fangirls which because we're basically why he has a job, a picture of the Gucci sign because his signature suits are always Gucci and money because that's something he has plenty of.      After this, I did something called letter tracing. It consisted of me duplicating the layer with the mask on it and then adding the layer to selection. I then de...

What I did in this lab was that I used the vector shapes to colour in the picture. I used many shapes but some of the ones I mainly used were a square, a circle and a raindrop. I tried to use vibrant colours so the image will stand out. I used the shape of a cloud to colour in the feathers so it would look like it has some textures in the edges. I tried to make the edges of the owl have some texture so I left white spots here. These tools would be useful to us when we need to colour in different shapes. You would pick the shape that is according to the picture that you are colouring in and then use not only that shape, but other shapes that would help you add some texture to your image so it doesn't just look like you're colouring a random shape.

 What I did in this lab was that I used the  Colour replacement took to change the colour of the child’s cap from red to green. I then used the Clone Stamp tool and the Spot healing brush to erase the graffiti from the back wall and make the wall look brand new. I also  used the clone tool to fix the rip in the bottom left of the picture. I then used the Spot Healing Brush tool to get rid of the sprinkler heads. Additionally, I  used the healing brush to erase the initials ‘DJ’ from the rocks. I then used the patch tool to erase the chips and holes on the sides of the rocks. I also fixed the holes on the left side and the ones on the right side and the cracks that were on the rocks. I used the patch tool to fix the big gap in the rocks on the right. Finally,  I used the healing brush to erase the horizontal wrinkles in the forehead. I got rid of the furrow lines in between the eyebrows next. I also used the patch tool to erase the wrinkles under his eye...

Reflection Journal - (2 paragraphs):  1) Briefly explain what your task was. 2) Describe what the following tools do: the magic eraser tool, the blur tool, the dodge tool, the burn tool, the sponge tool, paint bucket tool and gradient tool. 3) What does the blending mode do? 4) What other projects can you think these tools could have helped you with? 5) Which tool did you find the best fit for you? My task was to use the tools: magic eraser tool, blur tool, dodge tool, burn tool, sponge tool, paint bucket tool, and gradient tool on five pictures I was assigned to edit according to the directions I was given. Some of the pictures required me to only use one tool on them while others required more than one. For example in pic D all I had to use was the sponge tool. Different tools have different functions and the magic eraser tool cuts out a specific color completely out of a picture until it touches another color. The blur tool is used to help focus on a specific part of an ima...