Project 7 Number 10

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 10

In this last project, I took a picture of my brother in law. When taking this photo, he wanted me to take it because he wanted to see how much his stomach stuck out. Considering this, it was a pretty funny picture to begin with, that’s why I decided to use it. The first thing that I did was crop out the background. After that I copied and pasted the picture four times. I knew that it needed more, so I made the background black. This made Ralph stick out more. But still, the picture needed more, so I faded the first three. To me this just looked cool.

Project 7 Number 9

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 9

This picture is of my sister’s cat Fuzz cleaning himself. I liked this picture because you can see his eye crease and the shape lines of his nose; I didn’t want to get rid of those features. I wanted to change the color, so I went to colorize and changed the hue to 7 and left the saturation and lightness at 50 and 0. This made the picture almost a brown brick color, but the picture needed a little more. After looking around, I found the filter called mosaic and tried it. It gave the picture these little chicken wire shape things that gave the picture a little pizzazz.

Project 7 Number 8

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 8

For this project, I took a picture of my brother’s dog and just made it looked cooler. The first thing that I did was colorize it. I experimented with a lot of different colors, but the one that I liked the best was teal. This gave the picture a spiced old fashion look. Yet it wasn’t enough. After trying a ton of filters, the only one I liked was the cartoon filter. I worked with this filter earlier in the course, so I knew to move things around a lot. So this I did. Doing the cartoon filter gave the picture a little dark look on top of the teal. It also made Audrey’s eyes completely pop out. The mood that I was looking to get was just simply that I wanted to make the dog stand out. This photo is a great of example of plain colorization.

Project 7 Number 7

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 7

In the beginning, this picture was an awesome picture, so finding a effect that didn’t really mess with the original image was tough, but I found one. It was called Fractal Trace. At first when I looked at the option popup for this filter, it didn’t look like it was going to work, but I tried it anyway and found that if I put the depth at 1, the lowest it could go, it made all of the fuzzy dots go away. The fractal trace made the picture spread out into many different pictures, in all different angles, and on the far right side, there was the original picture only smaller, but still intact. This gave it an original classic New York wall art feeling.

Project 7 Number 6

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 6

For this project, I took a picture that I took in our backyard. I messed around with it for a while until deciding to do the photocopy filter on it. After I did that, I knew that it still needed more done to it, so I played around and found the illusion filter and set it at 8. With this, it gave the picture not only a black and white quality from the photocopy, but it made the image spread out into pieces. It reminded me of a kaleidoscope, without the colors.

Project 7 Number 5

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 5

For this image I just took an original image of my cat, then cropped and erased. Then I opened a blank document and pasted the image and messed with the skew to make it lighter. Then I pasted it again and did the same thing, only turning it around and positioning it on the other side. Then I made the background black and cropped it down a little. I was going for a unique look of some sort of stationary. In the picture, her face looks kind of angry, and the black background just plays off of that. This number is just a pure example that you can take the same picture, flip it around and make it have a complete different feeling.

Project 7 Number 4

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 4


For project number 4, I wanted to get a ghost like appearance feeling, so I found a picture of an old empty ballroom and another picture of an olden day couple dancing.
I started with the couple dancing. In the original, there was a lot going on besides them, so I cropped around them and erased close to them. After doing number 3, I knew that the image would be too, big so I scaled and resized it, and then pasted it onto the ballroom picture. I then adjusted the image skewing to make them look like ghost and positioned them in a good spot so that you could see them.

Project 7 Number 3

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 3

In my opinion I think that this picture is definitely the funniest. In this picture I took the original photograph, cropped it and erased everything that was unneeded. I then found a Vietnam War picture and pasted the picture of Brian on there. At first, he was way too big for the picture, so I had to go back to where I cropped and erased and scale and resize him to fit into the Vietnam picture. I actually didn’t realize that I positioned him on water until he had posted this image on his Myspace, which just makes it that, much more funny. I used this image because it just doesn’t fit together, but I made it work. It’s a good example that the images you crop and paste, don’t always have to have a common ground.

Project 7 Number 2

Chantal JohnsonProject 7
Number 2

In this project I started out with cropping. The original image of Brian was of his entire body, so I cropped out everything but his head. Then I started erasing. I erased around his head so I could copy and paste it. I then copy and pasted Brian’s head onto his birds head. When doing this, I shaded the head down in the layers box so I could position it good, and then returned it to its natural darkness. I was defiantly going for humor. All in all, it’s just funny when you see a picture of a man’s head on a bird’s body.
This project showed good cropping skills and good multiple layer using techniques.
This project was inspired by project 5.

Project 7 Number 1

Chantal Johnson
Project 7
Number 1

In this project I took an original photograph that I took and traced it. In the original, there was a complete background of trees, a field and the sky; I erased all of this to focus on the main point, Brian. The photo was in black and white so when tracing, I decided to put some color into it. I traced every point that you could see on him, including the creases in his pants and the peanut butter sandwiches that he was holding. And when tracing the tree, I made sure to trace all of the stump lines.
For my color choice, I did the outer tracing line in a darker shade on his pants and the outer shading line on the tree lighter. This I believe sets the eyes at a better focus point. For his hands, I just traced them in grey because they aren’t an important detail to emphasize. The only other that that I did was shade. I did a dark brown on the tree, a regular blue on his jeans and just black for his jacket.

The mood that I was going for was humor. The picture in itself is humor and the colors just add to it.
This project was almost exactly like project 3 that I seemed to have a lot of trouble with, but in this one, I seemed to do just fine.