Lifestyles of the Rich

"Lifestyles of the Rich" a Amazon best Seller and Oprah Book Club book of the year, is a thought provoking book over the complexities of wealthy living and how to find your wealth, with or without money.

FLYING AWAY FROM THE CITYSCAPE!

I'm a hero flying off on my magical duck escaping the crumbling city. Today we dabbled in sizing and made very cool visuals using pictures we took ourselves, how liberating.

Rihanna before and after

"1990's" masked type

Today we learned to use layers and backgrounds do display cool graphic backgrounds to text. I used a graphic of a grafittied wall and some artists jumping it as the background for my text "1990's", in my opinion, a time characterized by grit and artistic expression in all forms.I found this technique to be really cool and can definitely see myself using this again.

Jet Life T-shirt design

The "Magic Wand" tool by far has to be my favorite and most used tool. The magic wand allows me to keep what I need out of a picture and delete what I don't, making it incredibly useful when using photos found off of the internet. My favorite project has been today's T shirt project because it has allowed me to express myself creatively and show off some of my interests. I don't think I would use photoshop for fun in my spare time but I definitely don't think this will be my last time using this program seeing how it is immensely useful.

Typography: Light Bulb

Typography is an art based on displaying words, symbols, and pictures patterned to create a picture. I created a picture of a light bulb made up of words describing or related to this invention. I found the process to be a lot easier and more fun than I believed it would be initially. Typography can really be used to create some magnificent artwork.

Billboard: Doggy's day off

Today in IMED I learned of the usefulness of layers and of different cropping tools. Today alone I have learned to use over 5 different photo shop tools used to crop, layer, enlarge, warp, and change in many other ways an otherwise basic picture. I am now learning very practical uses for photo shop in the creation of even more detailed pictures out of simpler pictures. My billboard is titled "Doggy's day off" because today the dogs owner has taken a more relaxed approach towards the dogs handling and left fruit out for him to eat.

Self-portrait

Today's lesson was over the use of certain tools in Photoshop, one in particular being threshold a tool allowing you to change the color contrast on your pictures, in our case, making them black and white. We also learned how to change huge .PSD files to much smaller more accessible .JPEG's. Next in Photoshop I would really like to learn how to edit blemishes and small imperfections from pictures.

What I did this summer..

This summer I partied, raved at concerts, and worked like crazy. My summer was packed with fun filled nights, but hinted of slight dissapointment when compared to last summer. I'm not saying last summer I did too much more than I did this summer, but just the fact that most of everything I did was so new to me made the experiences that much better.

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