I really liked the assignment for Normal to Extraordinary. It creates normal pictures (of extraordinary people) into something different. I knew I immediately wanted to do my best friend, so I went through the pictures I have of her and came across one she sent me when she was bored one day (accompanied by pictures with “I” and “you”). I really liked this picture because it describes her. She is such a sweetheart. I used Pixlr again and started playing around with effects. I came across the “pointize” effect and thought it looked like an old pop culture painting. I took the background out and added the pointize effect in purple. But, I didn’t like the way it was just one color, but I didn’t want to add to much since it was already quite a busy picture. So I decided to change some of the white dots into pink ones. I also highlighted the heart and made that pink too. At the end, I randomly added in a swirl effect which made everything much more smooth instead of so harsh cut. It was just a few simple adjustments but I think the combination of the effects and the colors really turned out cool!

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