This week we had to work on “Visual Assignments” dealing with photography, editing images, and just having fun! All campers had to at least earn 10 stars in order to get a good ol’ pat on the back and completion for the week.

The first visual assignment I worked on is called “Splash The Color.”

The Magic School Bus

Can be found at my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7351847794/in/photostream

I used an application called “Color Splash” that allows you to manipulate the colors in an image. I decided I wanted the bus to be filled in with the color and the rest to be black and white. I wanted the focus of the image to be about the bus. The story behind this bus comes from a trip to Hawaii I went on two years ago. I was driving with my family through some scenic routes and stumbled upon an abandoned bus on the top of a cliff. At the base was the Pacific Ocean. Still to this day it is a mystery on why the bus was left at this cliff, but it makes for a great touristy photograph!

The second visual assignment I worked on is called “Picasso Yourself”

4 Eyes is better then none!

Found on my Flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7166722773/

I used photo shop to distort the image of myself. I first used a tool called “Lasso Tool” and drew around the part of my face that I wanted to copy onto other parts of my face. Then I used the “Rectangular Marquee Tool” this gave me the option of where I wanted to place the copied parts of my face, and where I wanted to put them.

The third visual assignment I worked on is called “9 Lives”

9 pictures that symbolize my infanthood to “adult”hood

Found on my Flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7351924088/in/photostream

I used PowerPoint and Preview in order to create “9 Lives” I dragged each image into the power point then opened a “word box” to put in captions for each image. I then saved the PowerPoint and turned into a PDF. This was a bit of trial and error. The PDF was simply too large to upload onto my Flickr account, so I turned to Preview. Preview allowed me to make the image much smaller, by turning it into a JPEG. After bringing the size down, I uploaded it onto my Flickr account. J

The fourth visual assignment I worked on is called “Complete Family Photo”

Since our family, like all others, can be slightly dysfunctional, I have photo shopped together one huge group photo!

Photoshop is the outlet I used in order to complete this visual assignment. I used a photograph I took in Hawaii about 2 years ago and made it my background image. Then I gathered multiple images of myself, grandma, parents, brother, and of course the dogs and uploaded them into Photoshop. I cropped down each image to make them small enough to fit on the background image. Then I used my Lasso Tool to select the photograph to copy&paste onto the background picture. I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool to reserve a spot on the background image to paste in the foreground image. I then made the entire “Family Photo” into a JPEG and uploaded it to my Flickr account!

Found on my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7352054510/in/photostream

The fifth visual assignment I worked on is called “ Is that a ghost?”

I uploaded an image onto Photoshop that had a pretty simple background in order to make room for a ghostly foreground. I then took another image of myself and used the lasso tool to crop out the body specifically. I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool to place the “ghost” image twice on the background. I wanted to give it the feel of a ghost walking along the beach. To make it translucent I went to the layering of Photoshop in the lower right hand corner and adjusted the “fullness” of the foreground image. Then of course I uploaded the finished product to Flickr!

Found on my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7352476630/in/photostream

The sixth visual assignment I worked on is called “Draw it”

I used an image of my puppy Leo cuddling with a small mouse

This task was not as tricky as some of the others. Thanks to the wonderful diversity in Photoshop, I uploaded a picture of my puppy and used an artistic filter on it. I used a crosshatch filter, and played with the shadow/highlights of the image. I then uploaded it to Flickr.

Found on my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/7167300437/in/photostream