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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I have done a few color splashes in the past, and they have become one of my favorite assignments. I have done a Cinderella slipper, Little Red Riding Hood, and of course my dog. I wasn’t sure what picture I wanted next but started going through my pictures and looking around my room to see if I wanted to take a picture. I finally came across this picture of my boyfriend. He was wearing an all black uniform, and of course lucky pink socks. It made me laugh because it fit s him perfectly. I decided I wanted to highlight his pink socks. When I did these assignments before, I had all kinds of software on my lab computer, but I don’t have this software anymore. I ended up googling “photo editor” and came up with Pixlr. I uploaded my picture, but couldn’t find out how to turn just his socks pink. I ended up trying to use the “bucket” tool. It turned a little more of his leg pink because of shadowing, but I thought it looked really cool, so I kept it! It has sort of a rustic appeal to it (if pink can be rustic) which I think fits perfectly with the somewhat fuzzy picture.

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I couldn’t decide between the two of these pictures. One is of just me, at 2 years old. The other is of my brother and I before school one year, don’t know how long ago.

This child is my favorite. He is perfect. Minus the drool coming out of his mouth in this picture. We had a formal dinner on our cruise this July and his mother dressed him in a tuxedo onesie for dinner.