Practicing Animation in Photoshop

We were told to play around with animation in photoshop by changing filters, moving things, etc.

A girl taking a selfie, changing the filters to artistic ones and playing with tweening.

Batman in the rain! Took a photo of Batman and added the rain effect.

A dancer changing hues. 

Just some clouds moving along, choppy animation but that's what practicing is for.

MorphX: From 4 to 20

This project had me looking through some old photos of me. I really liked this one of when I was four and my mom did my hair and makeup for fun. Together, my mom and I recreated the look and I put together the morphed movie.

Me at 4 years old

Me at 20 years old

The lines in morphX

Irina Werning's "Back to the Future" project

Irina Werning.

I absolutely love her "Back to the Future" series. I was a fan of it before this class for several reasons. First of all, the very idea for the project is inspiring and intriguing to me. I can imagine how much work (but fun!) it was to track down the locations, outfits, and other details necessary to recreate the original photo. It plays to my sense of attention to detail because I can see Irina's attention to detail shine in each piece as well. Every piece of clothing, every piece of jewelry, every finger is almost exactly if not exactly like the original. Not to mention it's incredibly fascinating to me to see what the times have changed (or not changed).

I imagine these photos would be a fantastic gift to the family members involved. However, there is also a dose of reality among these photos. The particularly strong ones are where there was a group of children - brothers or sisters - and the recent photo has that person missing. It reminds me how fragile life is and how every photo is important. It is sound reasoning behind my constant drive to take photos of my family and friends. Although it drives them all crazy, I know I will want all of these photos in the future.

"Somewhere!"

For this project, we had to photoshop a photo of ourselves into a completely new scene, someplace we haven't been before. It is intended to look like a brand new photo.

Finished edited photo. Me and the lion yawning!

Original lion photo

Webcam photo of me

The lion photo is from this website. I took the photo of me with my webcam because I didn't have access to my camera at the time. The lion photo was of much better quality, so I had to add noise and downgrade the lion photo to meet the grain similar to my webcam quality. I then cut myself out, and edited the lion photo to be able to fit me into it. After that I changed the colors, added photo filters, drew grass and hair, smudged, added shadows, and kept tweaking myself and the lion until we both looked like we could perhaps be from the same photo.

The project below was my original idea for this project, but it was too simple, so I did the lion photo as well.

The photoshopped photo! 

The photo to the left is the original photo of me, photo credit goes to my lovely momma! And the image to the right is of a beautiful Hawaiian waterfall, photo credit goes to Chuck55.

This was a very fun challenge for me. It took a while to find the right background, and which effects were right for the photo.

I cut out myself from the original photo, making sure to feather the edges just slightly. I then had to blur and add fake bokeh to the waterfall background. I played with photo filters and colors until everything began to look more cohesive. Lastly, I repainted a lot of stray hairs around my head because it looked really fake with no stray hairs. Now I have a photo of me in Hawaii. :) However, this project was rather boring, so I did the lion one which I like a lot better.

MorphX In-Class Practice

Christina Hendricks into Brittney Spears!

Myself in a Famous Painting

This was an interesting project! I had to photoshop my face into a face of a famous painting. I chose the Portrait of Maria Mercedes de Alvear by Michael McNaughton.

Photoshopped version

Original painting

Photo of me I used

I orignally chose the Birth of Venus because not only is it a beautiful piece of art and story, but I could photoshop my face into four faces here! The more the merrier, right? Unfortunately the faces were too small for this project.

My edited version of the Birth of Venus. 

The original Birth of Venus.

Close up of the goddess' face!

And another face!

More faces! 

Autoscopy

My autoscopy was made from six different images (four of me, two of flowers). I wanted to depict how I always feel pulled in so many directions. There are so many things that I want to do and so many that I need to do - it's difficult to balance and decide what actually to do when I'm thinking about a million different things. The flowers are in front of me because they represent the different paths I could take, but they are always changing and always just out of sight or reach.

JPEG 100% 369 KB

JPEG 75% 150 KB

JPEG 50% 72 KB

JPEG 25% 43 KB

JPEG 0% 21 KB

Adaptive, 4 color, dither 0% GIF 29 KB

Grayscale, 3 colors, pattern dither GIF 37 KB

Mac OS, 8 colors, 100% dither GIF 77 KB

Restrictive, 47% dither, 16 color GIF 54 KB

Recolor

For this project we had to take a photo of ourselves and recolor it to be something totally different. I chose to make myself really tan and blonde with pretty green eyes! Personally, I like my current look better :)

Original photo

Recolored photo

Compressions

In class, we were playing around with how you can save and compress images with different settings to achieve different versions/results. 

Original photo, jpg at highest quality

Windows Auto gif

Selective, 64 colors gif

Selective, 32 colors gif

Selective, 16 colors gif

Selective, 8 colors, 0% dithering gif

Selective, 4 colors gif

Perceptual, 2 colors, 50% dithering gif

Restrictive, 4 colors, 50% dithering gif

Restrictive, 8 colors, pattern dithering gif

Restrictive, 16 colors, noise dithering gif

Pop Art Poster

So many polka dots!

Some criteria for this project was to use no more than 4 colors (the white doesn't count because it would be printed on white paper), include your face in it, and play with a word or text.

Trypophobia is the fear of clusters of circles or holes. I wear a lot of polka dots and I once met someone who couldn't look at me because they had this phobia. So I thought this would be kind of interesting to do, especially since "trypophobia" has "pop" in it and it's kind of like pop art!

I ended up not using the image trace part in illustrator at all in the final project because my reference photos were not contrasted well enough, and I couldn't get a smooth, fine edge like I wanted. So I used it as a reference but I drew my own outline and shadows and whatnot.

Here are the references I used to create this image - pardon me for being a mess!

Face ref.

Body ref.