Avatar Project

For my Avatar project, I decided to do a picture of my Alter Ego. I have myself, in the clouds, with a nice fluffy beard and some wings. Not to  mention my beautiful halo circling majestically around my head. This represents that I am an angel. For this project I used Photobooth, Quick Selection and Wand tool, and even the paint bucket tool and things like that for minor things here and there.

Advertisement Project.

For this advertisement project I decided to advertise the iPad, an Apple Product. I got the picture of an iPad, smacked it on to a cool background, and type my advertisement genious. I also used paintbrush tool here and there, and quick selection and Magic wand tool.

Chair Project

For this project, we had to design a chair and give it a shadow. I decided to make mine fancy and dedicate it to Leonardo Da vinci. The back part of the chair pictures the mona lisa, and the part you sit on says "The Davinci Chair" (Cleverly named, I know). The shadow took FOREVER. It's very complicated, and I never want to do it again. The fewer shadows required, the better.

Marla Abstract Expressionist Painting

  
In class last week I watched a movie about a 4yr old girl who was making really good abstract art. So I decided to try out my abstract abilities in Photoshop and came out with this. It's all 1 layer, and it was made by using only the brush tool. I used different types of brushes to give off different thicknesses of brush strokes. It was a fun, short project.

Filtered Self-Portrait

This is my filtered self-portrait. All the Michael's in the top row are right side up oriented, all the Michael's in the middle are horizontal and flip flopping directions, and all the bottom Michael's are upside down. I used the Edit>Transform>Rotate tool to get all the pictures of me to rotate how I wanted. I also used a ton of different filters, one for each photo of me. Not only that, I used the Paint bucket tool to color in the borders of the grid. I believe I used the Shape tool to make the borders.

Visual Puns

These are my 2 Visual Puns. One of them is Fire Drill, as shown on the left, and the other is Dragon Fly, shown on the right. What I did for Fire Drill was I used the Negative Space technique. Then I did the Dragon Fly by making the fly a cartoon dragon and making it fly around Obama.

Negative Space Shilouette

Description: For this project I had to do Negative space and put a picture of me but make it negative. It's confusing, you'll get it eventually. So I took a lovely background and added a soothing color to match the background. And then I put my name in 3 different fonts in the negative space me. It was confusing and took me a while but it worked out for the best.

Crazy Combos

Description:  I had fun with this project. It has an alpaca body, wings, a tiger tail, Barack Obama wearing a top hat, a giraffe neck and Napoleon Dynamite as his second head. The background is, of course, Fenway Park. I used the patch tool to get rid of a little piece of white that was being annoying next to the alpaca's feet. I used the quick selection tool to get the body together and the move tool to position the body how I wanted it.

Michael DeSimone 15 green things

Description: For this project I was required to take 15 different images and incorporate all of them somehow to make one harmonious big picture. I used the paintbrush tool on a few things so not EVERYTHING had to be green in the photo. I used the quick selection tool on a few things so I didn't have to put the entire photo into the big photo, a few occasions where I used the quick selection tool is I used it to get trees in the photo and to get almost every photo into the big photo. I also used Paintbucket to color in big parts like the cat which would've been hard to paint otherwise. I am satisfied with this project.