Week 2 - What I Learned This Week

earlier this week we watched and followed a tutorial on how to make a starfield. i thought it was really cool and i learned a lot about new stuff and it was really interesting to see it develop in a way i didnt expect to turn out well. now were starting our book and its going to be fun

Kelby-Starfield

Week 1 - What I Learned

last class period i learned about Richard Roberts because he was the digital artist i found and did a small presentation on. his pictures were really cool because you can look at them and always find some thing new. the websites i found are on my previous post.

today we learned how to make a lens flare. it was a really cool process because you got to put your own style into and make it unique and different from everyone else's. i learned about motion and gaussian blurs, how to filter through blending modes (ctrl+) and about the smudge tool. its probably my new favorite tool cause you can do so much with it and change the look of your picture into many different things very easily.

Richard Roberts

http://abduzeedo.com/design-inspiration-tips-and-secrets-11-famous-digital-artists

http://www.theotherstream.com/

Different Selection Tools

Quick Selection

this was probably my favorite selection tool because it actually worked and was the fastest and easiest one to use.(thats why i liked it)

Magnetic Lasso

this one was okay but i had problems making it magnify to the little girls arms and hair because they were so light.

Elliptical Marquee

this one was fast and easy and it was cool how you could like fix your mistakes with the refine edges thingy.

"Magic" Wand

using the "magic" wand was probably one of the worst experiences ive ever had in the class because like the video said its not accurate and basically doesnt do anything i want. i couldnt figure out how to make it work for the life of me, and the classmates around me had no idea why mine wouldnt work like theres did(my computer broke) and the teacher absolutely refused to help me!!! so therefore joseph's body is pretty much deformed and i basically decapitated his daughter because the "magic" wand refused to work and select what i was trying to click. it made me so frustrated i cried and had a major meltdown all because the teacher wouldnt teach me. so yeah obviously the worst possible way to select anything. i wouldnt recommend it for anyone.