Original Images For Sequential Imagery

All pictures taken with my iPhone 4S

Final Sequential Imagery

Here is my final Sequential Imagery, I used a clipping mask in the third image to put the picture of me browsing the internet at work in a money symbol, In the second image I integrated the watch from the first image to make each image flow into the next one. Also in the third image I added the same style font and effects to the word "time" and "expense" as in the first and second image to produce the same "sequential" effect.

Sequential Imagery Preliminary

My topic for the Sequential Imagery project is Internet Browsing at the work place. We all do it without realizing its the same thing as stealing money from our employers. This project was made with intention to bring awareness to this issue. All images are my own. I own the watch, the money was whatever bills I had in my wallet duplicated a bunch of times, and the picture is me browsing Facebook at my office. (Don't worry I took the picture after work was over... not on company time). All other effects were created purely with Photoshop. 

Final - Digital Enhancements

For my final version, I increased the color and saturation on the candles to make them pop out more, and applied a radial blur to the sun rays of the background to intensify the rays of light to give it a more "godly" effect, like one of the students suggested I do. I applied a layer mask to the rays of light after words to make sure the hands holding the coffin still shown through the light and no detail from the picture was lost. Additionally I also removed the buildings in the background, like many of my classmates suggested.

Digital Enhancements - Preliminary

Digitally Enhanced - Preliminary

 
Original Photomontage

I recently downloaded and tested adobe Photoshop Cs6 beta which has a new camera raw feature that has improvements in adjusting exposure, shadows, highlights, hue, and saturation, and other features which allows me to bring out the most detail possible in my image. As you can see here there is definitely some improvements in the clarity and texture of the image then in my original photo montage. Additionally, I fixed up and touched up a number of blemishes by applying layer masks to each layer and removing excess pixels that didn't belong there. For example, in the original If you see around the coffin in the top right corner of the image you can see many scattered pixels, but if you look in the Digitally Enhanced preliminary image, you can see those blemishes have been removed


Here is a link to download Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta:


http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/photoshopcs6/


Enjoy!

Recreate A Book Cover - Final (Extra Credit: Back & Spine)

Work Cited:

http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor2/master-bedroom/master-bedroom-1962.jpg - Bedroom (for back cover)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqy1671ozL1qgsfbdo1_500.jpg - Back of Girl (Front Cover)

Back Cover Revised:

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~aoki/Research/winterson.gif

http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780394280141

Recreate A Book Cover - Preliminary

The book cover I chose to recreate is called "Written on the Body" by author Jeanette Winterson. I used a displacement map to make it appear as if the words "Written on the Body" were tattooed on the girl. The text in the background is the first paragraph of the book. The links to the original picture of the girl as well as the original cover of the book are posted below.

Work Cited:

Stock image of Girl - http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqy1671ozL1qgsfbdo1_500.jpg

Original Book Cover and Review - http://howlblog.co.uk/147/book-review-written-on-the-body-by-jeanette-winterson/