Collage

The theme for my collage is "nature". i wanted my collage to look bright and colourful. I took the pictures of tress and flowers that really liked and put them together. The background of my collage is a tree.

First i chose seven pictures that i liked and i opened them one by one and edited it by Changing the brightness/contrast,colour and Cropping it. Ater i finished editing all my pictures, i opened my background picture and added on all of the other photos and changed the sizes. Then i deleted the parts that i didn't want and i am done!

Random album covers

The name of my first album cover is Karyn bye (she is an ice hockey player. She was the alternate captain of the united states women 's hockey team). The quote i got was "The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." by Bill Cosby and i took the last four words which were "cultivate the delightfully vague". I think it would be pop or r&b music because of the people in the picture.

The name of my second album cover is Otohiko kaga (he is a Japanese author). The quote i got was "as we grow old..the beauty steals inward" and i took the last four words.i like this album cover more than the first one because of how it turned out.I think it would be mabey slow and calm music. I used bold for both of the album cover names and i used smaller font for the quote, i also placed the texts diffrently.

Photographer: Joe Mcnally

Joe MCnally's blog:http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/

Joe McNally was born in montclair, new jersey. He went to Syracuse university and received his bachelor's and graduate degrees from the S.I. New house School of Public Communications. Joe Mcnally is an American photographer. He shoots for national geographic as well as other magazines, advertising agencies, and graphic design firms.

I think his photos are very unique. i don't really have a favourite photographer but i really like his work.

most of his work are really cool , check out this site :
http://portfolio.joemcnally.com/



i found some images of Joe Mcnally's work on google:

~ celebrity photo ~

For the image on the left, i decided to use the famous actress Angelina Jolie and i placed her in India, new Delhi. You wouldn't normally see Angelina with her wedding dress , crossing the streets of new Delhi.

So first i cut her out using the magnetic lasso, and fixed up what i missed by using lasso. Then i dragged her to the new background by using move tool. I adjusted her size and moved her around so that it would look real. Then i used the air brush and went around her . At the end, i adjusted the brightness/ contrast and i'm done!

Obama

For this exersice, i first used magnetic lasso to cut obama out and fixed up my errors by using lasso tool. Then i pressed the move tool and moved him to the great wall of China background and ajusted him a bit within the new Back ground. BUT i didn't save it properly so therefore i lost the first part of the exercise.

so the image on the left is the second part of the exercise,

i found it more difficult than the first because i was really confused with the mask. I created a layer mask by clicking on the Layer mask icon. Iwanted to change the sky colour but couldn't figure out how so i just left it the same. I also used the air brush to remove the "halos". With the help of some few classmates and teacher i was finally able to finish it.