Gum Pack

a) What is the feeling you wanted your gum package to portray? How did you achieve this?

I just wanted it to look cool and apppealing to my target market. I achieved this by having a black background and blue text which makes it look cool.

b) Who are you targeting your gum to? How did you achieve this?

I am targeting my gum to teens and people who wants to make or produce songs with me. I achieved his by using the gum pack as an visiting card.

c) What area in your design did you use Photoshop?

The picture in the back was edited in photoshop.

d) More marks are given to designs that are custom created and not just taken from free vectors or free stock photography. What part of your gum package did you custom design?

All my design except the only picture is custom created.

Class Task 8

Clask Task 7

     

1. What happens when you paint part of the layer mask …black? …white? …grey?
If you paint the part black, it erases the top layer. If you paint it grey, you can see part of both the pitures. If you paint it white, the top layer comes back.

Frustration

Questions:

a) What were you trying to express and how did you achieve this?
I was trying to express my frustrated feelings towards school especially math. I achieved this by getting a nice background and using some filters.

b) What filters did you use and where?
I used Neon Glow and Plastic Wrap for the background, Glowing Edges for the numbers and some blur for the text and my picture.

c) What layer blending mode did you use and where?
I used gradient mode for the picture and inner glow for the text.

d) What special brush did you use and where?
I used Rough Round Bristle Brush on the picture to give it a disturbed look.

Class Task #5 Born into Brothels

1) How did you enjoy the film? What stood out for you?

Ans: I enjoyed the film because it shows how people who dont have any money do to survive. We are in Canada living a good life but most people dont knoe what people living in that district go through every single day. The part where every child goes to school stoods out for me the most because it is one of their most important goal in teir life.

2) Did you learn anything new about photography, life, people? What?

Ans: I learned new things about life and spcially people like how they even sell their bodies to survive.

 3) How do you think the world needs to change? How important is this?

Ans: I think the world needs to change in different ways. First of all, peace and education should be on top of the list. If every single person is educated, i dont think there will be any kind of violence.

4) What are you willing to do TODAY to be a part of that change?

I am willing to change the world by giving my valuable time to make every child go to school.

5) Do you know a good song/rap/poem with good lyrics about change in the world? Post a link or lyrics to share it with us.

6) Pick a non-profit organization that is important to you. Why is this important to you? Do they have a website?

A Non-Profit Organization I chose is United Way. The focus of United Way is on identifying and resolving pressing community issues, as well as making measurable changes in the communities through partnerships with schools, government agencies, businesses, organized labor, financial institutions, community development corporations, voluntary and neighborhood associations, the faith community, and others.The webpage for this organization is http://national.unitedway.org/.

7) What ideas do you have for media arts projects that we could do individually or as a class to help contribute to these organizations that are important to us?

I think we can do the same thing as they did in the movie like taking pictures and auctioning them off. What ever money we make we send it to he organization.

Class Task #6 Photo Editing Challenge

 I copied the other side of the face and flipped it. After I colour corrected it and it was done.

This was preety easy. I just used selected the eye by magic wand and copied it. Then i adjusted itz angle and i was done.

Magazine Cover

 

Questions n Answers:

a) What qualities of your magazine cover make it effective? (eg. What makes it eye catching?, What about it promotes curiosity?, How is it visually pleasing?, What makes it easy to understand?)

Ans. The qualities of my cover that make it effective  are that first of all its made by me, secondly the effort i put in to it and thirdly the PS3 and GTA IV make it look more interesting.

b) What was the order of hierarchy you were trying to achieve for the elements on your magazine cover?

Ans.  I wanted to make GTA IV Stand out because it is 1 of the biggest n most popular games comin out this year.

Class Task #4

Q1. Will a 300 dpi image or a 72 dpi image be clearer when printed out at the same size? How come?

Ans. A 300 dpi image will look more clearer because it will have more pixels per inche then a 72 dpi picture.

Q2. What would a picture created at 1 dpi look like?

Ans. The picture will be very blury.

Class Task #3

 

Q1. What combination of tools did you use to isolate the fruit in “fruit_combo.jpg” and where in the image did you use which tool?

Ans. I used a combo of Wand and Lasso tool.

Q2. Of the methods you used to isolate the fruit in the 3 pictures. Which method did you find most effective in this case?

Ans. Lasso tool was the most useful of all tools. I also used the eraser tool to erase some of the background.

Q3. Experiment with the following:
  After you make a selection in the menu and go to
     a) Select > Modify > Expand
     b) Select > Modify > Contract
     c) Select > Feather
  What do these do? Post a fourth image indicating that you know what feathering does.

Ans. The expand tool makes the selected part larger, Contract makes it smaller and Feather makes the edges softer.