Synopsis

I have a lot of ideas, but I don't know which one should I use. I was thinking about creating a commercial where someone shows much cheaper ideas for Christmas. First I would put a question if people like spending a huge amount of money for gifts. Then I will put some pictures of cheaper gifts. This is my slogan "cheaper doesn't mean worse"

Also I was thinking of making a commercial related to volleyball, chocolate.

I don't know which one should I make

REFLECTION 6 - PROJECT #5

    We were working on project #5 many hours, every single element must have a stroke around it. In this project we had to re-draw our pictures again with vector shapes only. I had over 500 shapes in my picture (I had around 300 shapes of leaves). Initially I drew a girl, a volleyball, a house, a tree, and a bunny/dog. Then I drew more details like another side of a house, the side if the house I had to draw with darker colors because it wasn't facing the sun. Also, I added shadows to a house, dog/bunny, tree, volleyball, and to a girl. The most time to draw, took me leaves (around 3-4 periods). I had to draw a lot of little leaves and put a stroke on every single one. 

   vs.     

    Drawing with brushes tool was much easier and faster, but it wasn't that effective as drawing with vector shapes was. When we made a mistake we could use an eraser tool (drawing with brushes). However, I got really mad when I was done with one element because I forgot to make a new layer for another thing and it was stock together (for ex. tree and a girl were drawn on the same layer but they weren't supposed to). I had to start all over again around 7 times. On the other hand, using vector shapes took us MUCH more time. The picture after using vector shapes look MUCH better than drawing with brushes. Also, when you start making a new shape, it creates a new layer so you don't have to worry about putting 10 different elements in one layer. 

     When I was doing project 5B I felt kinda like Mahdy and Mashnoon (no one knew how to do figure #5). I started doing this project late because I had to finish project 5A and I wasn't done by the end of the period, but I helped people with finding how to do this one:

When I saw this one I knew, that I have seen it before already. I realized that it was in "styles" (I saw it before when we were doing the lab with the lion), it didn't take me much time to do this one, then people started noticing that I found it and they kept asking me questions how to do it, even Mahdy and Mashnoon came to ask me how to get this. I was kinda surprised that nobody knew. The goal of project 5b was to practice using vector shapes. Project 5 was really challenging (drawing over 300 leaves is not that easy :p) 

Reflection5 - Project#4

•                   On the picture I drew, there is a big yellow house with a brown roof, a blue, yellow, and white volleyball, a girl who wears pink and purple clothes (about 10 years old), a pet (It was supposed to be a dog, not a bunny -,-), a yellow sun, and a beautiful, fall tree. The thing I liked the most is the tree. It's colorful as fall is, some leaves where falling down, and some were already on the ground. If I knew that we were going to paint our drawings, I would draw something more complex, instead of drawing what I drew. 
•                         To be able to color my drawing in without covering up the lines I had to move the background layer to the top. I had to re-draw my drawing with the pencil tool, because the lines which I drew were too light. I used the brush tool and and the eraser tool while I was doing my project. The brush tool helped me with painting the drawing, and the eraser tool erased the imperfections that I made during painting. Also, I used the history brush tool. It helped me a lot.
•                        The hardest thing to do for this project was to not to forget what layer are you painting in right now. More than 10 times I forgot that I was in the layer where grass is, and I was painting a volleyball, or I was painting the sun in a tree layer. That was the most confusing and hard thing to do for me, and I had to fix these mistakes. The easiest part was to erase the imperfections that I made during the painting my drawing. 

REFLECTION 4 - LAB#3

In our project#3 we had use a picture of someone famous, and use images to fill in who they are. I picked Justin Bieber (I don't like him to be honest),because I found a lot of things that I could use to fill in his body.. Inside the cutout I used:
- Canadian Flag, because he was born in Canada,
- French Flag, because he speaks french,
- Cotton Candy Ice Cream, these are his favorite(personally, they are too sweet for me),
- A picture of a hockey basic equipment, because his favorite sport is hockey(personally,I think that hockey sucks and volleyball rules),
- Microphone, because he is a singer(ewww more than one billion views?!?!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4),
- Money, because he gets a lot of money(<< that's me in the future),
- Sour Patch, because these are his favorite,
- A picture of a tattoo, because he has the same one,
I didn't even need to inverse the selection as I had to cut the person out. The mask mode and paint brush  really helped me in this project.
I chose the words:
- Cute, because he donated $545,00 To AIDS Research and that's cute what he did,
- Talented, because he can sings
- Young, because he is young
- Kind, because he loves his fans(I'm not one of them)
I was really mad when I found out that I used 3 words instead of 4-5. I had to do it all over again. I think that I did a good job with a cutout.

I'm thinking of using Winnie the Pooh
I would use:
- a jar of honey
- red shirt
- forest
- a pig
- a rabbit
- an owl
- a bed
- a chateau

Reflection#3 - Project 2

In our 2nd project, We had to work in quick mask mode, and we had to use masks. In this project we had to put ourselves interacting with the original picture. Layer masks allow you to see with a short look on the layers their effect on the image. Also it allows you to combine two or more different things on one picture. You just have to switch the order.The black color represents the hidden area, the white color represents the part that can show through to the layer beneath, the red color shows you the selected areas that you picked before. 

             During this project in mask mode I used only 3 tools - a brush tool, an eraser tool and a lasso tool. I used brush tool to select the area of a picture that I wanna move somewhere else. I used the eraser tool to eliminate the imperfections of my selection in a mask mode. I used lasso tool to select the top part of my jersey, so I could change the color of this selection, and change the color of a number on my jersey (originally the number on my jersey was white, but I changed the color so it matches with other girls' jerseys). These tools really helped me, my cutout looks more realistic.

              I truly love masks more than lassos. Lasso tool requires high concentration when you are selecting, I'm not the type of a person that can keep calm. I don't need a lasso tool when I have a mask because I can always change the size of a brush and of an eraser.

p.s. fishes feel good!

Project 1 prepared us for using selection tools. We practiced using selection tools on pictures of people's heads. We had 3 periods to find a good picture, and edit it. I decided to pick something easy, because I don't want to make my life more difficult, if I don't have to (My life is already difficult and complicated :p). I picked a picture of twins. I was pretty sure that I'm going to do something wrong, but I finished it on time. I forgot what I was supposed to do after I select first head but I did it. If I could re-do this project I would pick more difficult picture so I can challenge myself, and I would like to use different selection tool cause I used the easiest one - quick selection tool.

p.s. today I fed my fishes so you don't have to spend 5 minutes of your life on feeding them :p

REFLECTION1 - LAB1

Our task for the Lab was to edit pictures by making copies of the background layer for each adjustment. We had to label each layer for what the adjustment is. We had to make the follow image adjustment layers, from bottom to top. I liked "replace color" adjustment because I can change the color of something and no one needs to know what I did. I can make my eyes green, my lips purple, and my shoes yellow and it still keeps the same shadows. I have never used photoshop before. My brother is a photoshop master. I always wanted to learn how to use photoshop. People who can use photoshop are needed, my brother earned his first money by doing stuff in photoshop. Anyways there was no difficulty with this lab. I can't wait to edit my selfie with "replace color" adjustment :p
p.s. lady hawks won their volleyball game today 2-1

iOS 8...

IOS 8 BUT STILL NO VOLLEYBALL EMOJI
ARE YOU KIDDING ME