Lucy Attempts Digital Media: A Collective

  Out of all of the many, incredible, emotional images in “The People’s Portfolio”, this particular image made me gasp aloud. It is from the particular section that encapsulates the sexual violence in the Congo. With no context, the image is already leading me to be curious and worried about what is going on. Upon learning the context of the image, my stomach dropped and I became emotional. I hope this image continues to evoke emotion to all, so that change can be brought about.  Sometimes people are afraid of what they see, like this photograph. But we should be more worried about what the subject of the photograph has had to see. I think images like these are useful in this situation and I was able to find emotion in every image from the portfolio. I chose this selfie from my recent trip to South Florida. It was taken around the time of which the sun was setting in the backyard of the airbnb that me and my friends had rented. They say there is a difference between smiling fo...

  Photoshop Hw 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXWrSXI2dI This tutorial goes into depth about the adobe photoshop pen tool. I think this tool might be slightly easier to use compared to other tools because I have used the adobe illustrator pen tool. The pen tool is defined as being useful for “big, sweeping cut-outs” in this video. He also details how you can use the pen tool to make a path to add a vector layer, which can add cool edits to any image. In this specific example, he outlines a sports car with the pen tool and uses it to change the color of the car.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtHsFaclKo This video goes into detail about the lasso tool. “ The lasso tool in Photoshop allows you to manually select specific areas of an image. Select the tool from the toolbar, then click and drag to draw circles around the areas in the photo you want to manipulate. If you want a more accurate outline, use the magnetic lasso tool, which you can choose from the toolbar by click...

I chose this image of Kirby and Kendall because I think it would be difficult photoshopping the way the masks' shadows hit the face of the people wearing them. It may look kind of messy, because the cut-outs look jagged, which might make the photoshopping more difficult.  This post gave me inspiration  for the project because I feel as if photoshopping something similar would be very doable. The subject is smaller compared to the background which would probably be easy to do, which makes it more reasonable for a beginner (such as myself) to attempt.  This image made me laugh because the photoshopper took the literal advice of the person requesting a photoshop. I think it was funny how he interpreted it and then carried out the project.  I’d recreate something similar to this one. They have made the toy car look life-sized. It reminds me of the mini brands that you find at the store. I could do a whole photoshoot of the mini-merchandise to make the items look life siz...

 Tag Brush Blog From left to right, top to bottom, I have included my original Black and White logo, as well as my artist tag in black and white and in a variety of colors.  I chose this logo because it represents 3 things about myself that I value: My creativity, my excitement towards life, and my heart/ emotions towards people and things. I chose the neon colors because those are the colors I used in my original logo as well, which each represent creativity, love, and excitement.

  Self Portrait Propaganda Poster   For my self-portrait propaganda, this is the original selfie that I used:   The final poster turned out pretty well: My poster follows the “punk” vibe that we were shown examples of in class. I drew inspiration for the checkered background from looking at similar style posters. I also included a faded “shadow” of my original vector in the background that is my take on the following images use multiple images of one subject: I chose the quote “Loose lips sink ships” because my poster is still supposed to be a version of propaganda. This saying was popular in war times as to promote keeping secrets so that the enemy would not be aware of any plans made in regards to military, location, etc. Since my name is Lucy, my nickname is Luce which is pronounced the same way as “loose”, hence why I chose this quote. It is not necessarily satire, more so a play-on-words.