Photoshop Project Thoughts (2/7/14)

Wooooooooooo, another week another blog... 5 more weeks to go! yay! alrighty lets get down to business. Photoshop is a great tool. I used it before a long time ago and learning to use it again was a lot easier than learning it the first time. However, I think the drawback in using photoshop is that its a complicated program to use. Like if you wanted to reflect or invert an image and do more stuff to it, photoshop has a much more complicated way in incorporating that into its program OR maybe its just me... But i think simple programs like Paint allow me to do things much quicker if i just wanted to add a quick change here or there and just save and bam done while in photoshop i have to click more stuff and edit more things in order to accomplish the same goal as i would do in paint. Of course photoshop is great for bigger projects like the one i currently finished with my name using the environment of ucsb and such. The photo is located down below:

Look at that master piece... my my it took my hours to do but i got it! First my process in thinking about how to go about doing this project was first the GOAL. What was my goal when i was asked to find a letter outside of class and make it resemble something. Then I was like psh that's easy why not choose more letters.. OH I GOT IT MY NAME! Thats a challenege muahahah as i thought in my head. Then I successfully found all the pieces of my name and i was like HMM this is very good but how am i going to go about putting these things together without making it messy. So I tried piecing them together without cropping or setting a background and i was like this is very messy. I need to polish it so i found a background of UCSB storke tower and I was like hmmm THIS IS MY THEME! Timothy at UCSB! Who is Timothy? What does he do? How'd he get his name?? Interesting story on how i got my name but I will discuss it in my final piece =D so too bad you gotta wait!. So anyway after thinking about putting these things together and cropping things in and out, then I wondered wait... there's water in this photo! I SHOULD DO A REFLECTION OF THOSE LETTERS! YAY! EXCITING! Then a few more hours of my time went on trying to figure out how to transparent these letters at the same time rotate them like they were reflecting. It was hard to try to get the right angle and stuff and even so its not perfect but at least i tried AM I RIGHT? Can't go through life if you arent going to give it your best shot RIGHT? So as i came to look at my final piece i asked myself this question... Can my audience recognize these letters as something i found around my environment? I always worry if people cannot recognize these objects because that would defeat the purpose of the assignment. BUT hopefully you can recognize some of the letters; but of course if i showed you guys the raw images of these letters you'll be like ooooo that's crafty! bahaha just kidding. Anyway, that's my way of thinking about this assignment! See you guys in the next blog!