Self-Evaluation

I think the most significant work is the final project, because it can most describe my mood. Going back home! After one year's study, I really feel so tired and want to go home now. So I just want to show my alone condition. And I used the most common technique taught in class like retouch and different kinds of selection tool.

I really like this class. It has a relax class situation and a nice teacher. The more important fact is I can learn a lot of knowledge not only about how to creat and edit a nice picture but also how to criticize and enjoy the art work and computer art.

I will try to learn and watch others' work on the internet in the future. Hope all of the classmates will continue spending time on the computer art!

Alone

The above is the image after using technique.

I think as a international student. Loneliness is a common problem we need to face in the daily life. The friends and sweethearts may help you at sometimes. But finally you will find there is only yourself here. You can not find the true belongingness here .I just want to creat a project to describe this kind of feeling.



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URL:


http://psdessential.com/photomanipulation/you-will-stand-alone-photomanipulation/

Two artists who inspire my project

I want to introduece two artists who really help me in doing my project.

The first one is a film called Reserve Angle.
WITH LOS ROLLOS PERDIDOS DE PANCHO VILLA (The Lost Rolls of Pancho Villa, 2003), Gregorio Rocha has constructed a fascinating document of the intertwining histories of cinema, politics, and culture. The film grows out of a surprising contract made in 1914 between the Mutual Film Corporation and Pancho Villa, in which the leader of Mexico’s Constitutional Army granted the company exclusive rights to film him in exchange for 20 percent of the profits from any resulting movie. From this odd agreement came The Life of General Villa, 1914, a heroic portrayal of Villa’s life that included select footage of the Battle of Ojinaga. In subsequent American movies, after Villa’s troops invaded Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916, he was portrayed as a villainous bandit from across the border.Because my main topic is angle so it shocked me by a quite different feeling.

The second one is Twisted Sister: Artwork by Jamie Fingal. My bid idea is about a story about two angles. The little sister stay in the black pray for her sister angle. For letting her sister live in the sunshine and have a happy life she even can put all her life in a horrible place. And this website give me the feeling of the love between sisters.

Link:
http://artforum.com/film/id=25454
http://jamiefingaldesigns.blogspot.com/

Enhancing Eyes

Hyperlink: http://foto.worth1000.com/tutorials/161755/enhancing-eyes

(1) Open your image.
(2) View Actual Pixels (Alt+Ctrl+0)
(3) Click and drag (space bar + left click and drag on mouse) to eyes

(4) Ney layer via copy – Ctrl+J

(5) Select the dodge tool, set range to midtones, set exposure to 10%, and decrease your brush size to fit inside the eye.
(6) Go over each full eye, a couple times over the whites.
(7) Select burn tool, same settings as above and this time decrease brush size to the size of pupil.

(8) Go over each pupil several times, and if you want, you can also run around the edges of the iris.

(9) Enter Quick Mask Mode (press Q).
(10) Select a soft black brush at 100% opacity.
(11) Paint both eyes "red."

(12) Exit quick mask, invert (ctrl+shift+i), right click and feather your selection by 5 pixels, and create a new layer via copy (ctrl+j).

(13) Filter -> sharpen -> unsharp mask...Amount: 20; radius 80; threshold 0 –> OK.

(14) Duplicate your unsharp mask layer we just made by dragging it down to the new layer icon...You should see a copy of that layer appear in the layers window now.
(15) Set the blend mode of that layer to Screen, and reduce opacity to 25% (or a whatever setting you think compliments the image best).

(1) Create a Layer Stamp (ctrl+alt+shift+e).
(2) Enter quick Mask mode again – This time select just the iris.
(3) Layer -> New fill layer -> Solid color...Select your color of choice.
(4) Set blend mode to color and adjust opacity as needed – 25% works pretty good.

Final Image:

Because something wrong with my Mac Photoshop CS4, I will try to work on it and upload pictures tomorrow.

Sorry for that!

Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz is best known for her pioneering work in the use of computers for what has since become known as computer-generated art and computer-aided art analysis, including graphics, film, video, animation, special effects, Virtual Reality and Multimedia. Her work was recognized for its aesthetic success and was the first in this medium to be acquired by The Museum of Modern Art. Her contributions in starting a new field of endeavor in the arts, art analysis, and the field of virtual reality have been recently awarded Computer-World Smithsonian Awards.

In the picture above named Mona/leo. The denotation is the left part of the picture is famous picture of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci, and the right part is just a photo of Leonardo da vinci himself. The connotations of this picture I think is in some stories, people said the Mona Lisa is the self-portrait of Leonardo da vinci. Maybe Lillian Schwartz agreed with this point and made this picture for Saluting to Da vinci.

This is another picture from Lillian Schwartz called After Picasso.The denotation of it is the girl on the left wanted to give a baby to the man on right and the man watched the women with deep love. It seems that the man really did not want to the women disappear in his sight. There's an eye was looking the whole process. The important clue in the picture is all the things and colors give a very sad feeling to the readers. I think the connotation is the women will leave the man for some reason. Maybe is tell about a sad love story. The quick brush lines in thispicture indicate the sence of flatness with illumination of blocks of color, recalled the period of abstract expressionism

SOURCE LINK:

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/lesson9.html

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/small/schwartz2.jpg

http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/images/small/schwartz1.jpg