Mandapaka+Final+Texture





Artist Statement In Photography class we used Photoshop to combine three pictures into one. My concept for this project is a girl to the museum with her parents she saw a lot of art pieces but the art piece that she loved the most was the painting of the shell. She was walking on the streets still dreaming about the art piece that she saw.Some changes that I made to my original picture where I cropped off the background in my picture so that it would be easier for me to clean out the white spaces around my picture. I used Lasso tool and cut the white background in my picture and then I selected the magic eraser to clean off the white background so that the image looks transparent and less white space. For two of backgrounds, I decrease the opacity to 63% for the branches background, and I increased the opacity to 100% for the shell background to make it look like she is dreaming about it. I also blended both the backgrounds so that one looks like a dream and the other looks like an original background. For my first shell background, I used dodge tool on the shells to make them look brighter, so that they look stood out of the picture. For the shell background, I used the blur tool to make the background look blurry so that everyone’s eyes are going to be in the shell. For my second branches background, I altered some colors and filters by darkening my branches a little bit so that it looks like somewhat a dream. For my photo layer, I darkened myself to look more realistic, so that it looks like a girl dreaming on the streets. For both of my backgrounds, I altered the background colors with light blue and black and white color, so that it looks like the girl is staring at branches and suddenly remembers the art piece that she saw in the museum. The compositional techniques that I used fill the frame because the picture has no extra spaces or anything and the picture of my back fill the frame and grabs the attention. Some art elements I used in this picture are Line; the branches have a straight line connecting to each other. Value, I used the darkened tone of colors to make the branches background look more like real and I used texture to make the picture look like it is real and feel touched. Some principal of art are Variety, and I made this art piece look like variety by making some objects/pictures look smaller and by adding different colors to it. I used Emphasis to make the photo look more like more contrast, by combining the elements. I think I did pretty good in combining three pictures and make them look real, and photoshop was so helpful in darkening or lightening the pictures. Some problems I faced while doing this project was when I was saving the picture I had a problem, the picture started looking pixely which I didn’t like, but there was no way for me to undo it. Some changes I would make to this project would by choosing the better concept, and getting good and not blurry pictures.