Media Arts EMOTIONS TASK - Surprised

Here are some images of surprised that inspired my fish:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ei_quiz/

http://allthewritenotes.com/2013/08/12/get-excited-youre-a-writer/

http://healthyhomeboy.com/2013/09/09/attention-all-men-ladies-you-can-read-too/

In these images I can see very similar facial features:
- mouth stretched open
- eyebrows raised
- eyes wide open
- very similar to a scared face, but they look a lot happier

 My puffer fish's eyes are very wide and I put the top of its eyes upwards to make them look a lot like the images above. The mouth is wide open similar to the images.

Media Arts EMOTIONS TASK - Sad

I researched some images of sad people and here's what I found:

http://cauldronsandcupcakes.com/2013/04/16/its-okay-to-feel-sad-sometimes/

 http://houseonhybiscus.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/heart-wrenching-sadness-in-childs-face.html

http://www.readmyblogplease.com/2013/05/anonymous-confessions-from-writer-of.htmlh

In these photos I can see the facial features of:
- Droopy eyes
- Shiny eyes (from tears)
- Frown
- Droopy face

I decided to make my puffer fish have it's mouth open to give the idea that the fish was about to cry. I made the eyes a lot smaller, because I came across a manga image with a character being depressed and sad and there eyes were quite small. I thought I would use this in my image.

Media Arts EMOTION TASK - Scared

The first emotion I picked was scared. Some images I found of some scared people:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jun/15/fear.science




http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/VeronicasLife/media/scared-face-o.gif.html

http://footballislifeblog.blogspot.com.au/2011_01_01_archive.html

The features in these pictures
helped me create a scared look for my fish.
- Opened eyes
- Wide Mouth
- Raised Eyebrows
- Stretched face

Of course, puffer fish do not have eyebrows so I raised some skin to get a similar effect.

I remember seeing a manga picture of a cartoon looking scared and the cartoon's mouth went over the chin, so I decided I would use the same effect to help create the scared face.

Media Arts Lesson 11 - Emotions Task

The task I focused on today, was the emotions task. We needed to select an animal, find three different emotions and use the liquify tool to morph the animal into each of these three emotions. I chose a puffer fish. I decided to use these three emotions, Suprised, Scared and Sad. I researched and found some images that helped inspire my morphing and make the emotions look similar to those. Here is the original image:

I will be doing separate blog posts, for each of the emotions.

Media Arts Lesson 10 (continued) - Shailene Woodley

In Media today I also used the liquify tool to 'improve' and enlarge some of Shailene Woodley's face. I only used the liquify tool to edit this photo. I decided to make her eyebrows a lot more prominent, as before they weren't very big. I also made her pupils a lot more larger, her lips fatter and made her face skinnier. I used a tip from Mr Andrews to help make this photo look a lot more realistic. The tip was to only use small adjustments instead of big so the photo will look a lot better and natural. Here's the original image:

Here is the liquified image:             

Media Arts Lesson 10 - The new Harry Styles

Today in Media I decided to touch up Harry Styles, as in one of the photos I came across, his face was full of pimples. I decided I would touch up his face, so see what his face would look like without all the pimples. I used the healing brush and the clone stamp tool, to remove these blemishes. One problem that I came across, was even I used the healing brush sometimes the skin I copied would turn up darker than the actual skin tone. This was a problem, as it would look as realistic. To overcome this problem I undid my actions (command z) and selected a new piece of skin to copy. Here is the original image:

Here is the image touched up.

I decided to keep some of the unnoticeable blemishes, so it would look a lot more realistic. I think this turned out very well. To get rid of the really tough pimples and redness, I used 2 tools, the clone stamp tool and the healing brush. These 2 brushes worked effectively to make the skin look a lot more realistic.

Media Arts Lesson 9 - Overlaying

Yesterday in Media, Mr Andrews showed us one of the best avatars that one of his students had made. I thought it was fantastic, I could see how much effort she had put into it and it looked stunning.  I then started my project of a monkeys face over mine. I used some of the tool Mr Andrews explained to us last lesson. I found it quite hard to make the picture look as realistic as I could, because a monkeys face is quite different to a humans. I used the liquify tool to edit the monkey's eyes to make it look a lot cuter. This image is not the best one, but I will put further improvement to it next lesson.

Media Arts Lesson 8 - Overlay and Liquify

Today in Media Arts we learnt two new tools, the liquify tool and how to overlay. The liquify tool, is a selection of tools which makes parts of an image smaller, a part of an image bigger and to move parts of an image. I decided to edit MirandaSings, using the liquify tool. The main reason why I used the liquify tool is to make the image look strange, weird and ugly. But you can also use the liquify tool to touch up images and make them look better. Liquify, can also be used to change the emotion of the picture. Mr Andrews, demonstrated on a dog trying to make it look a lot more sad than what the picture originally looked like. This, so far is my favourite tool that I've used in photoshop. Overlay is used when you need to put a texture over another image. Mr Andrews experimented with this face and the texture of snake skin. He placed the snake skin over the top of his face and adjusted it to fit his face. This tool can be useful to blend an animal with your face, a task Mr Andrews set us. I decided to blend my face with a monkey. I haven't done it yet and I am planning to start it next lesson. Here is a picture of Miranda Sings liquified:

Media Arts Lesson 7 - Custom Brushes

Today, Mr Andrews taught us how to make a custom brush. A custom brush is a brush shape you can make yourself. I decided to make a panda bear as my first brush. We needed to make our brush no bigger than 2500x2500 pixels. Mr Andrews suggested we make our stamps 300x300 pixels. I used both hard and soft brushes to create this brush. Once you've finished your brush you could change the way it turned up once you add it. You can randomise it, so you don't know exactly where its going to go, if its going to be rotated. I thought that was very smart and making custom brushes will benefit my photoshop skills. Custom brushes are another great source to use when you want to touch up and blend. As well as custom brushes we learnt about 3 different brushes, hard brush, soft brush and the air brush. What an air brush is, is that the ends of the brush are much like a soft brush and the middle area is a hard brush. This brush could be very handy to use. Here is the picture I made using my brush (the maple leaves where a ready made brush, I did not make it):

Media Arts Lesson 6 - Healing Brush

11/02/14

Today, Mr Andrews introduced us to another tool. This tool was called 'Spot Healing' and 'Healing Brush'. On photoshop we were given a picture of Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) That was very high resolution. Since it was a very good quality photo, we could see any blemishes and imperfections in her skin. What the tool 'Spot Healing' does, is it covers up the blemishes with the same looking skin that is near by. One fault in this tool is, not having much control over what skin you would use to cover up the blemish. If we use the 'Spot Healing' tool then sometimes it can be unreliable. This is when the 'Healing Brush' tool comes in. This tool can be used to select a certain piece of skin to cover up anything (just make sure to press alt). I used this tool to make a pretty Hermione and a ugly Hermione. Heres how they turned out:

                                                                         Pretty Hermione

                                                                        Ugly Hermione

                                                                                Original Image

Media Arts Lesson 5 - Huncy

10/02/14

Today, we got to make a new photoshop of two different animals. I decided to get an image of some horses and place a duck and bunnies head on top. I noticed as I was doing my photoshop that, The duck's and bunnies head were not the same colour as the horses body. This was a problem, as they wouldn't look as realistic as I would of wanted them to. I decided to use the Hue/Saturation tool to make the photo a different colour, so all the animals colours would blend nicely together. This added a great touch and I was glad I decided to use it. Today we also discovered a new tool called, the 'magic wand' tool. This tool crops out a certain space of the photo that is the same colour. For instance, if you wanted to cut the background out, then you would select the tool and select the space that is the same colour. I believe this tool will become very useful during the year. Here is how to photoshop turned out:

Media Arts Lesson 4 - Welcome, Beever

7/02/14

Today we got to mash together our two animals. I decided that I would keep the beavers body and place the bee's head, wings and antennas on the beaver. Later, to make the photoshop a bit comedic. I decided I would place a packet of chips in between the beavers hands. It was very simple, I placed the chips over he top of the beavers hand. Put the opacity down to 56%,placed a mask on that layer and painted away the bits over the hands.

One problem I faced today was:

- I started to paint away a potato chip, but red appeared to of nowhere. I checked to see if the colour of my paint had been set to red, but it wasn't. I asked Mr Andrews for help and he had figured out the problem. I had accidentally pressed a button called, show layers. Which resulted in the red paint, it showed where the layers were. Here is what the Beever looks like:

Media Arts Lesson 3 - Hue/Saturation Tool

6/02/14

This was our third media lesson and also our first time working in Molphy 5. Today we used laptops instead of desktops. The program was very similar and there weren't any significant changes. Today we added colour to our emu and frog creations. By selecting the Hue/Saturation tool, it allows you to change the colour of the picture to whatever colour you wanted, I decided a muted orange. It matched well with the green and orange on the neck. Once we had finished, I had found a tool shaped like a raindrop, located on the left side. I decided to use it and it turns out it was much like a blending tool. Once I was finished, Mr Andrews set the task that everyone had to find two more animals to blend together for next lesson. I decided to use a beaver and a bee (beever). I decided these two animals as there faces and eyes did match up and they both had the same shaped face. Here us how the Fromu turned out:

Media Arts Lesson 1/2 - Introduction to Photoshop

3/02/14

Today was our second Media Arts lesson and we worked on our Frog and Emu photoshop. I like to call it a Fromu. Our first lesson we started of by cropping our emu's head, copying it and then pasted it over our frog (base). We then aligned the emus eye and frogs eye and also aligned the emus mouth and the frogs mouth, so they are in proportion with each other. To make sure they were, we needed to turn our opacity from 100% to around 65%. This lesson, we started by using the paint brush tool and started to get rid of all the parts of the emu picture we didn't need. I decided to keep the beak of the emu and have the body and the eyes of a frog. We then placed a mask over the top and then selected the paint brush tool. To use the paint brush tool we needed to use a hard brush first and then to touch up the edges of the pixels, we used a soft brush. After I had done this I duplicated my layer just I case if I made a mistake and wanted to start from where I finished.

Some problems that I could of faced are:

-    Instead of pressing my mask to erase bits of my photo, I could of accidentally pressed my layer. What would of happened was, instead of erasing black paint will take its place and it will be harder to undo.

-    If I made a huge mistake and wanted to try again but I forgot to duplicate the layer, then I wouldn't be able to start from where I was before.