DeAngelis+Izzy-Texture

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Throughout the texture co mbine-three, I took pictures of many objects, such as flowers, graves, trees, shells, and much more. But I decided to go with the images of flowers and graves because it matched my concept of bringing life to the dead. So when I first looked at my image on the plain grave I realized it was boring looking and it looked lifeless, so I decided to bring some life and happiness to the grave by adding flowers all over it. I came up with the idea to put the flowery designs as the letters of the deceased one’s last name--- “Kraetsch”---so this did take a process to do. For each letter I pretty much repeated the same steps but obviously used different flower pictures. The first step was to find an image of a flower that was bright in colors---because it gives off a happy vibe---then I would click and use the ‘quick selection tool’,which grabbed all the parts of the image I wanted like the flower petals or I would crop out the petals that I wanted to use. Then I would copy the selected image parts and paste them over onto my grave picture which was the background layer. Next I would mostly shrink the image size down so it would fit over one of the letters, then I would drag the flower image to a certain letter, and if need be I would rotate the picture so that the flower petals were better shown. This is then where I used the eraser tool to form the actual letter, I used different brush thicknesses to get everything that needed to be erased. Once the letter was made I changed the opacity to a lighter shade so that the colors weren’t as bold and were more subtle. Also for every image, I made it a separate layer so that they were laid out better and were easier to get a hold of if something needed to be changed. Next once all of the letters were properly made and put in the correct spots, there was still some spots on the picture of the gravel on the letter “S” that was too dark compared to the other little gravel pieces. So I used the clone stamp to put the lighter colored gravel chunks onto the darker sections so that there was a even balance on the picture. Next I looked at my final picture at that point and realized it was still a little too boring so I added these roses to the picture, because they symbolize life and death which is what my main concept was. With the flowers I shrunk and enlarged them and changed their brightness because they were too dark at the start. In my final image, I saw that a compositional technique that I used was leading lines because at the bottom of my photograph I had grass coming in on a slant that then connected in the center by the roses. By having this slant coming in and directing towards the middle, it helped make my roses stand out more and it then guided you to the last name on the grave. You also could’ve been guided towards the last name on the grave at first because on the grave you can see that on the side there are 3 lines on each side the are vertical and point towards the name. But the grass could’ve also been seen as a frame to the bottom of the picture. The texture that I focused mainly on was the flower petals and what each one looked like up close. By showing the different flowers up close, you got to see that there are many different flower types and they all have different textures to them; this created a variety in my final piece. I also enlarged the rose in the middle of the grave to show that it was dying a little and had so welted petals but it was still living and had bright colors still. Lastly the grass was shot up close so you could see its different color greens and its mossy-like texture. In the overall look of my final picture I used very bright colors(like green, pink, yellow, purple, and orange), I also used a pattern when I had a little rose, then a big rose, then a little rose shown in the middle of the grave, and finally I showed repetition when I had the grass framing the bottom. My main concept that I tried to get across in my final picture was that you can still bring life to the dead and show that a grave doesn’t only have to portray the sad things but you can also show this happy emotion, too. I showed this throughout the piece because I added bright, vibrant flowers to name on the grave which showed that even though they are still dead, there is still some life of happiness still around. I also added the grass to the bottom of the picture to convey that there is still life of growth around when you are dead. Overall I thought that this being my first project working with the cameras and photo-shop, I thought I completed a great work of art. I used the software and technologies effectively and I thought I conveyed my concept to its fullest potential from where I am art wise. I thought I was most successful and proud of myself when I used photo-shop to make my flower pictures into letters, because I’ve never used photo-shop before and I was surprised at all of the cool things you can do with it. But I did think that I could’ve shown my compositional techniques better, I think that when I was choosing my pictures and photo-shopping my pictures I didn’t think about the techniques as much because everything was so new to me. So next time I will for sure think closer at what I can do to use and show more compositional techniques.