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.