Lesli Cuamani PR #5/Visual Design 01/21/16
In
this project, we took pictures representing ourselves. To accomplish
this certain work, we used Adobe Photoshop CS6 as always. One of the
first and major steps for the silhouette was to make a mask in order
for the whole project to work out. Masks make a silhouette have an
invisible gray scale canvas that emphasizes on the body or face of
that person. We started first with the collage silhouette which I
believe was a bit easier then the lettering silhouette. The images we
had to pick in order to be placed inside our silhouette, were
pictures we had taken previously that represented who we were as a
person. The images I picked were a cat, sneakers, oranges, a bridge,
a flower and an iced coffee and donuts from Dunkin Donuts. I love the
things I placed and honestly, all of the pictures explain a different
aspect about me. For example, I really love having varied pair of
sneakers that give me a distant style or look compared to others.
Cats are my favorite animal and honestly, I'd die to have one! Aside
from those, each other general and vague looking image has an
in-detail explanation behind. So after I was done placing all of the
pictures, I had to quick select all of the background and surface
blur it, so the original background of the original picture wouldn't
be shown. This was one of the quick parts of the collage silhouette.
Afterwards, I had to delete the excess amount of pictures standing
out from my body figure. I used the quick selection once again on
each picture separately and clicked on the extra detail hanging out.
After I select it, I would simply press delete and it would
miraculously disappear , which I thought was really cool! These were
literally the steps that had to be taken with caution and as always,
save the finished work as a JPEG to later upload onto Jupiter Grades.
As soon as the first silhouette was done, we rapidly started working
onto the second part.
The
second part of this project was the lettering silhouette. This was
the part that I feel I had most difficulty with but had somewhat easy
steps to follow. So we used the second layer we duplicated from the
original image to complete this part. We went into Layer and then
used Load Selection to have the whole background selected for us
instead of going through the hard work of perfectly selecting it.
This simplified the process of using work paths that let use create
the lettering. Due to work paths, the letters were able trace around
the cutout. It was up to you on adjustments on how big letters were,
the font, the width between each letter, and many more options. I
wasn't completely satisfied with the results of the lettering
silhouette since I somewhat rushed through it and looks very sloppy.
I know I could've invested more time and effort into it unlike the
collage silhouette. I honestly feel like I tried my best for the
collage one which I feel looks very nice! I chose this person because
it was instructed and had to be done so. I see myself using these
skills I learned for later on when I help my parents promote their
business by making business cards or simply editing object/image
related pictures. I can also use these skills for later labs.
