Avatar reflection/evaluation

 For our avatar assignment we had to photo-shop pictures of our self or a friend to make the photo look like how we see them by adding in emotions and personality’s of what we think most describes them. We had to edit one photo with two personalities or two photos in one personality in each of them

Some of the technique’s our teacher taught us was things like:

- Rubbing out and on layers 

- How to put two pictures together

- Softening the strength of a layer so it would blend in better

- Making masks

- Changing the colour of eyes, hair, lips etc.

 And many other things but these are just some of the basics. It took a while to get used to all the different tools but I eventually got the hang of it.

I decided to use my friend Lily as my model for my assignment because I know her very well and I also decided I was going to do one photo with two emotions. At first I was going to have Lily on a beach with a surf board in her arm and as a second emotion to be funny and crazy looking but I changed my mind and ended up making Lily look like a angel/devil and the beach idea.

For my beach idea I had Lily standing on a beach holding a surfboard this is because Lily is from Byron bay where it is a very beachy culture and Lily loves the beach. I made many mistakes during the editing one of these and I was forgetting to save my work. Many times I had exited out of my project without saving it and I lost lots of my work, like when I spent a whole lesson turning Lily into a angel but I forgot to save it and lost it all. I had to redo it all in prep and in our next lesson. I made other mistakes like putting layers on that didn’t look quite right so I had to rub and un-rub parts out that I did or didn’t need.

My second emotion I turned lily into an angel/devil. This was because Lily comes across as a quite shy girl so that is where the angel half came from but she is actually quite the opposite, a loud, crazy and cheeky girl so I made her other half a devil. During the assignment I made many mistakes on this emotion. It took many dresses to find one that suited the angel of her body and tunic. This resulted in many different dresses being put on the image but eventually I found one, and still had to edit the dress to cover her tunic. Another mistake I made was forgetting to save my work I had to redo a lot of what I had already done because I didn’t save it to my memory stick or creative media folder. 

From this assignment I learnt how to photo-shop images and learn lots of techniques on photo shop. I also learnt how I would betray my friends and how I see them.

My finnished assignment.

This is my finished assignment of lily for creative media. We had to put two personality's in one or two photos of what we thought best describes the person we were working on. I decided i was going to put two personality's into to the one photo. I put lily on a beach with a surfboard in her arm because she is from Byron Bay where there is a lot of surfing and beach scenery. my second personality was that i made her into a angel cross devil with horns and a halo. i made her wings white to signify an angle and a red dress to signify a devil. i made lily into a angel/devil because she often come across as i little quite angel but i know she in a naughty little devil.   

Mistakes

Thought out my assignment i had made quite a few mistakes. At first before i made lily into a devil/angel i was going to make her into a colorful and crazy looking person with dots, stripes, spikes and other crazy things but the colors didn't look right and didn't blend in very well so i decided to go with and angels and devil personality because it looked much better. i made other mistakes like putting a bad dress on her, changing the hole pictures saturation and other things but they were all easily fixed. 

my ideas for my assignment

For my creative media assignment i have been editing a picture of my friend lily to what i think best describes her. I decided I was going to put two personality's into the one picture, i put lily on a beach and and edited a surf boarded in next to her. This represents lily because she is from Byron Bay where there is a lot of beach scenery and people that like to surf. My second personality was i made lily into a angel/devil, this is because lily often come across and a quite shy little angle but i know her for he naught devil she really is and that not everyone get to see.

My creative media avatar assignment.

For our creative media assignment this term we are creating an avatar of our self or one or two of our fiends. We had to take a picture of our subject and Photoshopping them to what we think best describers who they are.