ASSIGNMENT 5

1. My most significant achievment in photoshop this quarter is my new use of photoshop. Previously photoshop was a tool I used to place people inside my own buildings. Now Photoshop has become a tool I use to create meaning inside my works. It is a very powerful piece in my toolset for art and architecture.

2. My final was the most challenging piece to create for a multitude of reasons. The most challenging part of the project was creating an image that was well balanced while also filled with visual difference. Color is a very dangerous tool to work with. Not only does the artist have tone but they lightness and darkness as well. I tried to use color to my advantage. I successful used it to call out things that I wanted to become visually appealing. I allowed the back ground details that were not completely pertinent to my piece to fade away with their black and white colors. Meshing each photoshop item into a coherent and correct image was difficult but ultimately successful in my final project.

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My midterm and final are the easiest projects to compare and contrast. Both use similar techniques to have fairly similar passions. The subject matter obviously explains my love of architecture and the future. Color is a huge tool in both. It is used to both call out difference and emphasize certain aspects of my subject matter. However, each picture has different a different tone about the future. One image has a cautious almost scary tone to it. This image speaks about the far future. The posterized filter also adds to the mystery of it. Posterizing the image allowed for me to take the crispness out of the image because the future is uncertain. The other image has a more optimistic tone. With green spaces and a blue sky, the viewer is immediately brought to a familiar spring scene of happiness. The crispness of each image also goes to explain the ability for cities to take on these type of characteristics.