I think the most significant accomplishment is the second image in my final projects shown on the left. I was able to combine many images seamlessly into an entirely new image. It was definitely a challenge for me as well since it took a lot of time and attention to detail to get the pictures to meld together just right. I used the vanishing point filter in order to extend the buildings realistically. I also used a lot of masks in order to blend parts of the images together. The most difficult thing was finding realistic damaged pieces of buildings and placing them together with the new looking buildings. It took time to find these damaged pieces and then more masks/blending with the eraser as well layer blending modes to make the damaged portions appear like they were how the buildings would look on the inside. It was also difficult to match the plant colors since a simple image adjustment will not always make pictures exactly match in tone and brightness. I feel like I was able to blend multiple plant images into a realistic scene of what the world might look like in the future.
The project on the right is our movie poster quiz. I had a lot of trouble initially with this project due to selection errors. I used a select color range and I was getting a lot of filmy background remaining around my image even if it looked like I hadn't selected it. After this difficulty, I learned that since it was so easy to ctrl+click on an image in order to see what all was selected, then it would be smart to do this each time before I created a new layer after selection. This preview selection would show a sparkley little ant trail in every area that was selected. This showed me many times if I had extra things selected and I was able to use the quick selection tool to remove these extra areas of selection. By learning this I was able to easily check my selections each time and then refine the selection edges so that I was able to get very crisp selections. By the end of the quarter I was able to do this quickly and easily so it took less time to touch up my images as I was blending them into the new background.
The image on the left is the combined image of both halves of my midterm diptych and the image below on the right is the first of my final project images. In the midterm diptych image I took a very literal look at reality versus fantasy. I tried to show the various aspects of fantasy when it comes to video games and magic and other things and tried to show reality by showing a real person (myself) and death as well as the real world. Although this method was able to easily show the Big Idea I was striving for, it probably wasn't a deep as it could of been.
If you look at the first of my final images however, I left this image very open to interpretation. The main goals I went for were trying to blend a real-life person into an anime girl and I also wanted the girl to have very real looking emotions. I think I was able to obtain this goal and in doing so I think I was able to show a deep meaning in this image. In fact, I think this image may have brought inspiration to me for my second final image. Even though I didn't really see the whole meaning of this first image initially, the sadness lead me to think of why a person would be this sad. This lead me to the idea of the destroyed world and lack of all human life. So in developing this image, I was able to extend my Big Idea from a simple reality versus fantasy to wondering about the reality and fate of the earth and what might happen to humans if we keep treating the earth like we currently are. This all started from me trying to show a deep sadness in the girl, without making it look overly dramatic or unreal by overusing photoshop effects.
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