Photoshop

Our inspiration for this task was our own identity. Our task was to portray ourselves through a poster. We began with writing our full name onto Ai and making it curved shaped and experimenting with different fonts, sizes and colours. Once we had chosen our design, we zoomed into each letter and were able to change the format and shape of each letter using the tools down the left hand side. I wanted mine to reflect me so I chose my favourite colour (pink) and a bold font.

Then we chose a photo of ourselves, and separated it from its background so we were able to place it on another image. I chose a photo from the day time, where the sun was shining on one side of my face. I wanted the image to look realistic so I chose a sunset as my background and edited the picture of myself to become darker and the light side of my face to become more orange to mimic the colour of the sunset, I also darkened the tone so it looked more realistic and like it was an actual sunset. When I chose the position of the photoshopped picture onto the background, I made more extra adjustments to add to the realism. Once we had finished this section of the task, we then wrote 200 words reflecting us and our personality, our likes and dislike, whats unique about us and where we aspire to be in the future. This was to form this identity theme of the poster. When we had written it out, we then photoshopped the original full name we wrote out at the beginning, onto the picture, to label it as our own. 

Here is my end result. I enjoyed this task because I have never used photoshop before and it was interesting to see what the program is capable of. I enjoyed edited each picture so that they would appear more realistic and it was interesting to see the development and how a photo of me in daylight in a built up area can be completely transformed into me on a beach at dark. I think the poster was successful as I thought about the light on one side of my face and I made sure I found a picture where the sun would appear slightly to the left so I could place the next layer to the right as this was originally a corner picture. When we had finished our posters, we presented them to the class. This was useful as I am not very good at speaking in front of larger groups of people and it is one of my weaknesses, therefore it is something I need to work on more in the future. I also enjoyed seeing what other people had come up with and what backgrounds they had chosen to be their ideal place. Many people chose large cities such as New York.