Reflection

I am really happy with both of my avatars; I think they look really good. I liked the way I did the skin and the eyes I think it looks really cool. I loved how can changed the nose to make it wider with liquefy. I also liked doing the hair I loved how I could change the colour and see how it looks. I had trouble with the hair it was hard to get every bit of hair to change the colour because you can't keep some bits black and other bits purple. I also had trouble with the eyes, it was hard because when I put the eyes on a separate layer they were huge but when I put the layer on with all the other layers they went back to small but I finally got it at the end. I changed the colour of the eyes, hair and the skin allot because all the colours I tried didn't show both emotions. I tried red, yellow, green. But in the end I used the colour purple and blue.
This term on photoshop I have learnt how to:

* Mask
* Make and use layers
* Use the selection tools
* Free transform (apple T)
* Use colour pickers and colour adjustments.
* Crop command
* Liquefy
* Hue and Saturation

My avatar is always happy or sad; they show a little bit of anger but not that much. I used these tools to reflect their personality as i used the liquefy tool to widen her mouth on my happy avatar or I also used it to make both their nose wider and larger and the eye brows look wavy and sad. I used the mask in many things, I used it on the hair and the eyes and the skin. I used the colour adjustment to change the colours. I used transformed to make the eyes bigger to make it happy and sad. I really like working independently, I prefer looking at the demonstrations on the smartboard. I am a visual learner and i am not a huge fan on taking notes and I like working on projects and learning new stuff as i go. I really like this project because that is what Mr Powell did during this avatar project while we were working he showed us different stuff that we could use on our final project. So to get this project done I basically watched all the demonstrations and videos on the smartboard and I knew what to do. But I did ask for a little bit of help when I did get stuck.
I really had fun with Photoshop this term!! :) :)