evaluation

I basically think that I did quite well with time management as I finished within the time bracket with everything complete, including all blog posts. I have to be honest and say that I think I could have improved my final product and put more thought into what I was hoping to achieve and basically I only changed colours. It was still a challenge for me as I was having trouble with the layers and my final photo-shopped image contained a lot of them so it gave me heaps of practise. If I could of gone back and done things differently I properly would. I would of made my avatar more animal related and changed their faces features so that they were more unusual looking and made them more interesting.

creative media reflection;

I started off this Creative Media assignment with no clue about what I wanted to do, so there was quite a few weeks of just playing around with a heap of different pictures and seeing what I could do for my final product. I had an issue with layers in the beginning, wasn’t a fan. But then I realised how important they were in the end and how much easier it make it. I used them to separate the hair, skin, lips and much more parts of the image. In the beginning we first learnt about layers, masking and changing colours which is pretty much the basics and you can do anything with knowing about those 3 things. The masks helped me a lot during the process of this assignment. After putting all of the parts into the different layers, I masked them and this helped me isolate the parts I wanted to change the colour of. I chose the colours blue and green as they are the best for camouflaging in water and the jungle, which is the surroundings of where they live. They are all born in twin and come in opposite, meaning if one had blue hair and green skin the other would have green hair and blue skin.

As I said, I did not like the layers in the beginning and found them difficult and frustrating. But on the other hand, I did really like the masks and I found them quite easy to use.

I prefer to work independently than in groups and find that I am a visual learner and picked up on a lot of the techniques by the demonstration. So during the process of the project I found that I just worked on the image and learnt as I went. That is how I prefer to learn.

final image.

this is what i am going to submit.......

mk&a

this is what i have done, near my final product. im not really liking the look on ashley at the moment, it can be fixed. her skin tone is looking a bit weird. i had them at the start with one with all blue hair and skin and the other with all green skin and hair but then i decided that it was too boring and changed them so that they are oppisite each other.

personality profile

this unusual species are all born in twins and are always oppisite each other, for example if one has green hair and blue skin the other will have blue hair and green skin. they are these colours as it works well with camouflage in both the water and jungle. they are kind and welcoming but very protective over there land, who is ruled not only by one person but by all, they vote. they all have large families due to everyone being born with a twin and very close with there sibilings.

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i have started on my final copy of the avatars. they are Green and Blue skinned as they change there colour depending on the camouflage they need. I have decided to use the Olsen Twins as my image instead of Sienna Miller. I'm not really liking what i have done so far, but i will try fix what i have done so i will be happy with my final submission.

green;

i have decided that my base colour for my avatar is going to be green as they are going to live in the forest. the green will help them camouflage. when they are need to hind they turn blue as they take cover in water and this will help them go un-seen.

another photoshop picture;

more work...
i have changed her skin to a blue, her hair to an orangy colour and changed the colour of one of her eyes.

sienna miller;

so far in photoshop for my assignment, i have started playing around with an image of Sienna Miller. changing her skin tone. i may use this image as my final submission (with more editing of course!)