Project One - Self Portrait

 

Materials:                                                    what did you Photoshop?

Layer 1 (tutorial 2) = My schedule: I photoshopped it so that it had a low opacity and was layered over the rocks in the foreground or middle ground of the second layer. 

Layer 2 (tutorial 4) = A photo of the city at night from a park in New Jersey. I used a layer mask, coloring over the bottom rocks with a gray to partially erase the rocks at the bottom and have the schedule show through. 

Layer 3 (tutorial 2) = A boat. I used the tool to remove the background, and added a layer over it to make it a “screen” layer instead of normal settings, to make it pop more. 

Layer 4 (tutorial 3) = I used the object selection tool and removal background tool to get the outlines of me and my siblings. I then used that mask and moved it to show our silhouettes with a background of the sky. 

Layer 5 (tutorial 5 & 1) = The final layer is one with hot air balloons. I used the object selection tool to isolate them from the background and the move tool to move them to the top left corner. 

Overall design reflection: (what was easy / hard for you to do?)

It was originally difficult for me to figure out how to import the images, but I got the hang of it. Another thing I found difficult was remembering how to make one of the layers have a lower opacity to show the one below it. But after playing around with the settings and tools, everything became much easier. I found it easy to position things, layer them, and move them.