Minor Assignment 1

Oh my! When I got out of class on Thursday night my brain felt like it had run a marathon! I sat down in my car and felt like I had to catch my breath...I was SO confused after those four hours (which by the way, only seemed like 30 minutes).

I used three pictures to make my "creation". The background was a shot of Mardi Gras beads. The second picture I used was of the high heel. I used the magnetic lasso to cut the shoe out and bring it over to the beads. The third picture was of the wall clock. For the wall clock, I used the magic wand. The magic wand brought over the black frame of the clock first. Then, it brought over the face of the clock but it left out the numbers. That wasn't my intention, however, it turned out kind of cool because you could see the colors of the beads in the numbers.

For the 3 assignments I kept the same picture and just tweaked each one a little bit. The first completed project is actually the second picture posted here (I had a hard time posting and was running out of time!) In this picture I used the "liquify" setting to smudge up the clock. I had no method of using the pictures I did, but when I started to put these together it started to take on a theme of a "modern Cinderella". When I smudged the face of the clock, I thought it kind of made it look like a dream.

The last picture that is posted here was the second. In this picture I simply made a frame and adjusted the "curves" to make the inside of the background darker than the actual picture.

The first picture was my last that I finished. In this picture, I used the eraser tool and found a star shaped brush. I used two different sizes and randomly applied stars to the picture.

I am such a HUGE perfectionist and I really felt like I rushed this whole project. I'm really hoping that I can get a better grasp on the technicalities of the program so that I can focus more on the artistic aspect.