Original Picture
Kaleidoscope 1 Kaleidoscope 2 Kaleidoscope 3
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Kaleidoscope Project Pictures (Original image + All 3 finished products)
Kaleidoscope 1 Kaleidoscope 2 Kaleidoscope 3
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Kaleidoscope Project Reflection Questions Paragraphs
The strongest part of my finished art pieces are the background layer because I feel that it looks evenly placed in my art piece in a very symmetrical fashion, the triangles because I feel like the are also symmetrical, and the halves of stereo because they make an appealing plus-like design. The part of my art pieces that could use improvements are the X that is placed in the center because the lines on the center of the pieces that I used for the X are not symmetrical, the lack of multiple layers because there could be more of them, and the four squares that I placed in piece 3 because the grey floor makes the piece look weird. I could improve on these issues by placing a section of the lines in a certain way so the lines become symmetrical, adding another layer or two, and changing the floor's color. The tools that I used to create my works were the polygonal lasso tool, free transform tool , quick selection tool, rectangular marquee tool, crop tool, ruler, layer duplication, and filter gallery.
I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out sectors from the original picture, the free transform tool to adjust the size of my shapes, the quick selection tool to remove some layer remnants, the rectangular marquee tool to cut out a shapes for the pars of the X parts, the triangles and the squares, the crop tool to fit my image within the specified picture size, the ruler to even out my picture into four sectors, layer duplication to get some more square and triangular sectors for my art piece, and the filter gallery to make the fuzzy resolution less noticeable and make it look more appealing to the eye. The easy part of this activity was making the background layer because all I had to do was cut out some shapes, duplicate them multiple times, and place them in a symmetrical fashion . The difficult part of this activity was figuring out what to put in the center because I couldn't remember how to pull out a small piece of the picture and edit it to look like a fireworks show for your eye and placing the shapes symmetrically because there were so many of them.
I demonstrated each of the objectives for this activity by using my class time to the best of my ability(due to the fact that I kept getting stuck after I figured out the previous thing that had me stumped), I used the rules of composition wisely by not placing anything in the center without it branching out to the rest of my piece, I created three kaleidoscopes (two of which were late however, but still done), and my edit of the original picture I took looks clear, focused properly, has no gaps and is lined up correctly, and seems to have a high amount of quality to it. If I could do this assignment again, I would try to get past the metaphorical roadblocks faster in order to make one more kaleidoscope on time for the due date. And lastly, on a scale of 1-10 I would rate my effort on this project as a 7 because I was trying very hard to make three kaleidoscopes, but ended up making two of them late because I ran out of time due to the obstacles in my way and thus had to make two more instead of starting the next project.
I used the polygonal lasso tool to cut out sectors from the original picture, the free transform tool to adjust the size of my shapes, the quick selection tool to remove some layer remnants, the rectangular marquee tool to cut out a shapes for the pars of the X parts, the triangles and the squares, the crop tool to fit my image within the specified picture size, the ruler to even out my picture into four sectors, layer duplication to get some more square and triangular sectors for my art piece, and the filter gallery to make the fuzzy resolution less noticeable and make it look more appealing to the eye. The easy part of this activity was making the background layer because all I had to do was cut out some shapes, duplicate them multiple times, and place them in a symmetrical fashion . The difficult part of this activity was figuring out what to put in the center because I couldn't remember how to pull out a small piece of the picture and edit it to look like a fireworks show for your eye and placing the shapes symmetrically because there were so many of them.
I demonstrated each of the objectives for this activity by using my class time to the best of my ability(due to the fact that I kept getting stuck after I figured out the previous thing that had me stumped), I used the rules of composition wisely by not placing anything in the center without it branching out to the rest of my piece, I created three kaleidoscopes (two of which were late however, but still done), and my edit of the original picture I took looks clear, focused properly, has no gaps and is lined up correctly, and seems to have a high amount of quality to it. If I could do this assignment again, I would try to get past the metaphorical roadblocks faster in order to make one more kaleidoscope on time for the due date. And lastly, on a scale of 1-10 I would rate my effort on this project as a 7 because I was trying very hard to make three kaleidoscopes, but ended up making two of them late because I ran out of time due to the obstacles in my way and thus had to make two more instead of starting the next project.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Letter Project Reflection Questions Paragraphs
The strongest part of my finished art piece is the overall shape of my piece. This is because I personally think that it looks like a design that one would find on an ancient Aztec temple, which is appealing to the eye for me. The part of my art piece that can be improved on is the lines from the capital and lowercase L's that I used. This is because of the fact that they were uneven and not lined up properly, so it didn't make my piece as appealing to the eye as it should have been. The tools that I used to create my work were liquefy, the rectangular marquee tool, a gradient, the horizontal type tool, transform, and the move tool.
I used these tools in order to fix the lines that I made from the L's because they were uneven, move, alter, and adjust the L's in order to make my design, make the L's in order to have the parts to make my design, and create the background for my art piece so that the background would be more appealing and not just a white void. The part of the activity that was easy for me was placing the L's that I used in order to make my design. This is because all I had to don was make one capital and lowercase L, duplicate them if I needed another one, and move them into place. The difficult part of this activity was making the lines from the L's even. This is because of the fact that a lot of the lines were uneven and I didn't realize it at first and when I did, I originally used liquefy, but it took forever. And then on the final day, I found out that the rectangular marquee tool was much more effective, but still took forever and I didn't end up evening out all of the lines in time.
I demonstrated each of the objectives of this activity by working efficiently once I figured out how to work Photoshop properly, using the rule of two thirds by making my design symmetrical and having a plus shaped hole in the center of my design so that nothing just stood in the center, and made a unique and inventive idea that was developed through problem solving and experimentation by experimenting with the L's to make an Aztec looking design that I personally think was unique compared to the rest of the class. If I could do this assignment again, I would finish fixing all of the lines and alter the color of my design. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my effort in this project as a 7 because I tried hard once I figured out how to use Photoshop properly, but my design looks pretty simplistic due to the lack of color or texture.
I used these tools in order to fix the lines that I made from the L's because they were uneven, move, alter, and adjust the L's in order to make my design, make the L's in order to have the parts to make my design, and create the background for my art piece so that the background would be more appealing and not just a white void. The part of the activity that was easy for me was placing the L's that I used in order to make my design. This is because all I had to don was make one capital and lowercase L, duplicate them if I needed another one, and move them into place. The difficult part of this activity was making the lines from the L's even. This is because of the fact that a lot of the lines were uneven and I didn't realize it at first and when I did, I originally used liquefy, but it took forever. And then on the final day, I found out that the rectangular marquee tool was much more effective, but still took forever and I didn't end up evening out all of the lines in time.
I demonstrated each of the objectives of this activity by working efficiently once I figured out how to work Photoshop properly, using the rule of two thirds by making my design symmetrical and having a plus shaped hole in the center of my design so that nothing just stood in the center, and made a unique and inventive idea that was developed through problem solving and experimentation by experimenting with the L's to make an Aztec looking design that I personally think was unique compared to the rest of the class. If I could do this assignment again, I would finish fixing all of the lines and alter the color of my design. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my effort in this project as a 7 because I tried hard once I figured out how to use Photoshop properly, but my design looks pretty simplistic due to the lack of color or texture.
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