The Power of One - Series.

For this project we had to chose a series of six images and each should represent something like war, conflict, rascism etc.

I chose this image because it shows many different races and people all together and as one. They are all equal.

I chose this image because Nelson Mandela made a huge difference in South Africa, he himself went through a tough time and managed to change a country and become a big leader and role model to people of South Africa and all over the world.

This image also shows that many races are the same and should be treated the same way, unlike how it was during Apartheid.

This image shows people fighting for their rights and trying to make a difference, which they did by ending Apartheid.

This image shows the culture of South Africa, and the pride that everyone has.

This is the war of South Africa and shows the battle and fighting of people trying to help their own country, South Africa.

The Power of One - Movie Poster.

For this project we were told to just re-make a movie poster for the movie The Power of One. I used a sunset at the bottom because in the movie Peekay was very inspired with nature and he it was a big part of his life. I then used some images from the movie on the outside of the number one, and the flag in the middle is the South African flag, waving proudly after Apartheid was over because of what had happened on the outside of the one, it's everything that happened on the outside that made the impact to change South Africa. I really enjoyed the project and the movie, since i am from South Africa. It was a very inspiring and touching movie and i really put thoughts into how i put this project together.

Power of One - Text Illustrations.

I really enjoyed making this project because i am from South Africa, though i was not familiar with what life was like in Apartheid i still know a lot about it. The text i used is in another South African language that i actually speak, called Afrikaans. The word moed means courage. Then i put pictures inside the letters representing South Africa today, it looks different because Apartheid has ended and because South Africa's people had courage through this hard time they faced. For the back ground i just took the map of South Africa and desaturated it to make the words stand out more.

Color Wheel 2

This project has to do with winter and snow, in South Africa we don't get snow so this is special cause i've never ben able to make a project with my own pictures of snow, the images in the templates are all my own, as we were told to use for this project. The images have all been taking since December 2012 through 2013. Most of them are from when we went to Vail, Colorado for Winter Break. I did not pur filters on the largest snowflake because the colors captured in the picture are all colorful, it is actually a rack of skiis and snowboards. The back ground is just a gradient with i used filter on to change the color. I really enjoyed making the Color Wheel.

Color Wheel 1

For this project i used my own images but the stencil i got online. I made many layers and then used the  stencil and cut out part of my own images. I used a surfer, beach bucket and spade, Patrick the starfish from Spongebob and a palm tree as stencils. I enjoyed making this project because it made a lot of sense to me and it was fun to create. I put borders on some of the stencils. For the back ground i used the gradient tool and the color was blue and yellow which i did not like so i used photo filter on the background.

The 49 States

Matthew Jensen  (American, born 1980)

This image is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I liked this project cause is doesn't seem like what the project is displaying, the 49 states. He also did't travel around America to take these images, he used Google street view and edited the images and displayed it on a plain white wall and all the images have land and road. These pictures also do not look like they are from different states. The images all look similar but very different. To me this is a really beautiful, fun and inspiring project that he changed and displayed it in his own way. 

The link to this image : 

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/view?exhibitionId=%7b2E988323-B8DF-496F-B72A-E999E567FABA%7d&oid=190046296&pg=1&rpp=40&pos=7&ft=*

The link to the Website: 

http://www.metmuseum.org/

Batesville Day.

For this project i tried not to use too much color because it looks better when its printed onto a shirt or something they'll use for the day. I just took an imagine from the internet looking like what i thought Batesville would look like and i desaturated it, then used history brush to bring back the color in the barn. I then just put a test with the date and the name of the day.

Candice Grobler Alphabet

For this project we were asked to use our own skill to make our own creative font, i used matches and created each of the letters and photographed it.
I really enjoyed this project because it was simple but looks different. Each of the images have a different color back ground because of the lighting which changes it up a little.
I used a 8 by 14 dimension and had 6 images across and four going down, which gave me 28 places in the left over to i just filled it in with the wood from one of the images and put a heading or name for the project.
I decided not to put an effect on the images because i like the way the lighting is different.
I really enjoyed putting this project together.

Chair 1

For this project we took a picture of a chair and had to take out previous projects and pictures and do like a wallpaper model on the chair. When i got the model or orginal image it had a shadow so i selected the backround and deleted it and at the end i made my own shdow which was very interesting to see the way that the photoshop app did it, I like this project because the shadow looks realistic.
I If i could have done anything different i would have used a single color or pattern instead of having many different projects i feel it would look better.

Mid Term Project.

With this project we had certain tools that had to be used in order to get our credit, i like that when i used the puppet warp tool i was able to ad another image, the feris wheel, into the image. There are a lot of images that have had many different tools been worked with them, some more than others the back ground is a sunset that i used a harsh filter on. I used more than fourteen tools on this project and that is what makes it look very different look. I used a 7x5 inch grid to work out the one inch flower images. I enjoyed making this project but i prefer using less tools on certain images.

NAPP Tutorial.

I used the 2012 December Issue of Photoshop magazine and i also used the image that they provided in the tutorial.
This was a lot of fun and i learnt a couple of new things making this project.
I used the lyrics from one of my favorite songs Little Things by One Direction for the text.

The link to the image is: http://members.photoshopuser,com/magazine/issue/december-2012