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My Advanced Studio
ExperienceBy: Cory Drexel
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Before Photo Shop
What did I already know?: Before I took this class I didn’t even know what photo shop was, let alone how to use it.
What programs were you familiar with?: I didn’t know photo shop or any program like that. I didn’t even know how to scan photos onto the computer.
How comfortable were you using computers?: I found when it came to a computers basic functions I was fine but I never knew how much capability they really had.
Computer access: I have a computer at home and with the computers at school I have almost constant access.
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Year Book ProjectTitle: Year book project page, 1st project.
Purpose: To create a profile page about ourselves that we would want to appear in the year book.
Thought process and creation: I was very unfamiliar with PS at the beginning of the year so at this point I was still just trying to get a feel for the program. All I did was crop a picture of myself, run it through a single filter, add some text and arrange the layers.
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AdvertisementTitle: Advertisement Project, 2nd project.
Purpose: To create an ad for an already existent product or made up one that you believe would sell the item.
Thought process and Creation: I’m quite the Nintendo fan so I wanted to make an ad for the Wii. Although it may seem like I just cut, paste and repositioned a bunch of separate pictures (and I did) it took a lot of precise out lining and trimming. I also learned the importance of making use of space.
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Self PortraitTitle: Self Portrait Project, 3rd Project
Purpose: To create a visual representation of ourselves using only pictures.
Thought process and Creation: At the point in time, its obvious I was pretty sad, just looking at it brings back unpleasant memories. But I think I did a good job showing that time in my life but it wasn’t good at showing who I am as a person. This project had very little use of anything other than cut and pasting.
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Corporate Identity Package
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Corporate Identity Package (cont.) Title: Corporate Identity Package with,
Envelope, Business card and Mail address and logo. 4th project.
Purpose: Create a fake company and make three separate components to advertise the company. Make sure the pieces are consistent, informative and usable.
Thought Process and Creation: This was a good idea I felt, having to make separate pieces containing the same company logo. I just wasn’t able to use my creativity in this project. It is simple but I’m not proud of it.
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Surreal Triptych
Title: Surreal Triptych, 5th project. Purpose: Create a past, present and future picture of yourself. You must create the present with a landscape that you feel represents you. Thought Process and Creation: This is also a kind of sad piece but I realized that it holds a constant about me; that I have no constant. As a person I am to easily affected by people, events and feelings in my life therefore it is hard for me to stay the same for very long. As for the tools I used I got familiar with blending, fading, adding shadows and proper placement.
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CD Redesign
Title: R.E.M. CD Redesign, 6th project Purpose: To take a CD cover that you feel could use improvement ad redesign it.Thought Process and Creation: Its not that I didn’t like the original cover I just liked R.E.M. at the time and wanted to make a cover for their album ‘Document’ which contains ‘It’s the end of the World as we know it’. I created the circle in the sky from scratch, had a ton a of fun trying to outline the buildings and got lazy with the asteroids. All in all I don’t like it.
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Currency Project
Title: Straw Hats Currency, 7th project. Purpose: To create our own form of currency. Thought Process and Creation: We were supposed to make a currency using our self but then it would be the 4th project with my face on it. So I took my favorite straw hat pirate and made money out of him. It is just mostly cutting, pasting, flipping, rotating and careful attention to symmetry. Although it simple I like the way it turned out.
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Cereal Box Project
Title: Old Fart Flakes cereal, 8th project
Purpose: To create our own cereal that we think would actually sell.
Thought Process and Creation: Although it looks good and probably gets a good laugh out of you it was nothing more than a precise arrangement of layers, font manipulation and my bizarre taste of humor. It actually looks pretty good but it is armature as fare as photo shop goes.
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Grid projectTitle: Donut Grid, 9th project.
Purpose: Make a 4x4 grid containing a single type of object or theme.
Thought Process and Creation: There are at least four obvious layers in this project and I used fading and blending to include all of them. Outside of the basic grid idea I made the donuts start in the top right corner and get lighter in color as they swirled towards the center.
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Artist BookTitle: Wind Waker Artist Book, 10th project.
Purpose: Make a story book on photoworks.com using pictures formatted on PS.
Thought Process and Creation: Though the artist book is just a compiling of photographs to make a story of sorts I did put all the photos in my book through photo shop first. I wanted the photos to seem progressive but also explanatory.
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Digital Photos
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Independent Project
Title: Metroid Prime Promotion Poster, 12th project.
Purpose: To create a project of our choice with our own criteria to show what we’ve learned in PS this year.
Thought Process and Creation: I was playing the ‘Metroid Prime’ games at the time and naturally I was obsessed with them. This project is a great representation of what I am capable of in photo shop, and that is basically cutting and pasting.
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Lessons Learned The farthest my knowledge of photo
shop is cutting, pasting and perhaps a little touching up. I can’t create something from scratch or unify two completely different things. Its not the class. My lack of knowledge is to blame on my slow working habits and because I take so long to do projects I don’t have time to do tutorials which in turn makes my projects more amateur.
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Future Use I definitely wouldn’t use photo
shop to create things form scratch but as a ‘paper’ artist I would consider using it to touch up my own drawings. But my lack of knowledge outside of cutting, pasting and resizing wouldn’t be much use.
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Favorites All three lasso tools, move tool,
elliptical and rectangular marquee tool, magic wand, color sampler tool, eraser tool, paint bucket tool, zoom tool, blur tool, smudge tool, ect.