Treyvaux…

This assignment was an interesting one! We had to follow 3 links to these random websites to get 3 random things: a band name (from an article title), an album name (from the last 4-5 words of the last random quote on the page), and a random photo as the background picture.

Everything I had was really random. For instance, the band name, Treyvaux, is a “municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland,” according to Wikipedia. But it’s definitely somewhere I’ve never heard of before. However, I really liked the quote and picture that I was randomly given!

So I took a picture of the picture with my phone and used the Photoshop Express app on my phone to turn it black and white and then sent it to my email. Next, I copied and pasted the picture onto Paint, an image editing program installed on PCs, and cropped it so that only the window was in frame so it would fit onto a potential album cover. Next, I added the band name and album title. I used a cursive-ish font and placed these words over the flower box because it was the only white space in the picture.

I think this turned out pretty well. From the whole image together, I get that the band is a very laid back, chill band that maybe has some folk melodies, acoustic guitar, and quirky but classic voices. Maybe you see something else, and that’s great too!

Album Cover

Walmart, according to Paris

Part of our assignment for this week was to do multiple assignments from the visual assignment bank.  I choose to do King of the Meltdowns.  This assignment was worth 2 stars, and we had to find a picture of a celebrity and a quote that matches that picture.  I chose to use a picture of Paris Hiltonlooking confused, with the quote ” What’s Wal-Mart, do they sell like wall stuff?”

I thought that using a confused picture, with Paris asking what Wal-Mart was, was a perfect match!

Walmart according to Paris

I had a little bit of a struggle when I first made this assignment.  At first I tried to used to QuickMeme, it was very easy to upload the picture that I saw, and to add caption to it.  The only problem was that I was unable to actually embed the image to my blog; I would have had to put the link of the website with my meme on my blog, and people would have had to click it in order to see it.  No one wants to do that, so I figured out another way to do it.

Steps on how to do this assignment on PowerPoint.

1) Think about a celebrity that you want to use.
2) Find a funny quote that the celebrity has said, or someone else has said about them.  You can do this by going to Google and typing in the search engine.
3) After finding a funny quote – remember it, or write it down somewhere and go back to google and look for a funny picture of the celebrity you would like to use and save it to your computer.
4) Open up PowerPoint (if you don’t have PowerPoint you can get it here)
5) On PowerPoint go to Insert then click on Photo then choose “Picture from file” and look for the picture you want to use.
6) Feel free to fix the size of the picture or crop it as you please.
7) Under the picture use a text box to type in the quote.  Make sure that you align the quote under or above the picture.  You are also able to use put the words on top of the picture if you would like.
8) After you have everything the way you want, click on “File” then “Save as Pictures” – this will allow for flickr to recognize the image and upload it.
9) Upload it to flickr and crop the whole slide to just have the parts that you want
10) Save the changes and voila! You’re picture is amazingly beautiful.

:)  I hope this tutorial was helpful.  This assignment was fun to do specially spending my time looking for funny quotes from celebrities and looking for pictures to match it.  I liked that I was able to be resourceful and use PowerPoint in order to be able to embed the picture into my blog.  I love the way QuickMeme did my picture with my quote, but the inability to save the picture to my desktop and uploaded to Flickr made it impossible to embed.

Find Yourself

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The first thing I thought of when doing this assignment was, where are there a lot of names?  Well dorm room doors of course! So I went around the dorm and sure enough, there is another Eric living in my dorm.  It is a pretty awesome name if I do say so myself

Weekly Summary for week numba 5

Again, I’ve already done all the work for this, so I’m going to copy and paste what I said and link to the original post.
  • Photoblitz activity.

Phew! This photoblitz was stressful.

When I started:

Time I started

Take a photo of two things that do not belong together:

Pumpkin and Pens

Take a photo of an interesting shadow:

Soda Pop Top

Take a photo dominated by a single color:

Pink Make Up and Post Its

Make an ordinary object look more interesting, almost supernatural:

Supernatural Hairbrush

Make a photo that is abstract, that would make someone ask, “Is that a photograph?”:

Highlighter Marks.

Time I ended:

Time I ended.

This was kind of stressful. I chose to do this in my dorm room because I could run around without people judging and staring at me holding my dinky dumbphone (opposite of the smartphone, of course) taking pictures. Also, I would have resources to use. It was fun though, running around my room, throwing things on the floor to use in the pictures. The easiest photo was the single color one because I have way too much make up and I could just throw my pink stuff on the table with some post its. Plus I feel like this was the best one.

 

Link to original.

  • Besties Set


Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

So mine doesn’t have many pictures because I feel like my camera really stinks. Or maybe I’m just a bad photographer. Either or.
How did I do this you may ask? I made my set on flickr like this tutorial told me. Then I scuttled over to my best friend, Mr. Google, and typed in “how do you post a flickr set to a wordpress blog” Voila! This site popped up!

The reason I choose these pictures is because I feel like they “fit” the prompt for them the best. Plus they’re the clearest ones my dumbphone/Macbook could take.

I didn’t realize I told a story with them but I do. I’m apparently a make up wearin’, hairbrushin’ angry feminist.

Whatever. It is what I am.

I suppose I actually meant to give this idea off, subconsciously.

Link to original.

    • Three Daily Creates!

Daily Create #1:

Prompt:

“Love See No Color.” Make a short video expressing that idea.

Work:

Oh lord this is embarrassing. I didn’t prewatch it before I uploaded it so bear with me.

Daily Create #2:

Prompt:

“Bald is beautiful. Photograph the egghead in your life!”

Work:

I knowww we aren’t supposed to use pictures from before this class and such, but my egghead is at home. He is my head, sitting on the right in this picture, obviously. This picture was taken in the Bahamas on a cruise. The woman on the left is my mother.

"Bald is Beautiful."

Daily Create #3:

Prompt:
Draw an abstract picture of your favorite animal.

Work:
This is a lovely abstract corgi. Its stubby legs are in one place, its stub of a tail is somewhere else and so is its little head with huge bat ears.

abstractcorgi

Link to original.

    • Ten stars worth of Visual Assignments (Links because everything would be ridiculous): .

Two Stars: An Album Cover
Two Stars: A Splash of Color
Two Stars: Common Erryday Object
Two Stars: Find Yourself
Two Stars: Create a New You

    • What in the World have I learned?:

I have learned so much about visuals. I may not have improved as a photographer, but I’ve improved as a storyteller. I feel like I’ve learned that there is more than just slapping a link on a blog and being done with it. I’ve learned so much about Gimp as a photo editing tool through Google and experimenting around. To me, telling a story visually is about how you tell the world what you want to say without words and just a picture. Your picture needs to convey words without needing a description following it and explaining it.

    • The Lovely Radio Show Blog Post

Super excited to get this underway!

Pop Art From the Heart

This visual assignment was about turning a normal picture into something extraordinary. When I first read this, I knew exactly what picture I could use. My roommate from last year edited this picture of us when we went to the river together last spring. She gave me a cowboy hat and a mustache and gave herself a black hat and gotee. I called her to ask for permission to use this picture, but as I was talking to her, I decided I kind of wanted to try my hand at it. So she gave me the website she used to edit the picture, called Be Funky, and I used another picture instead!

My friend Mitchell posted this picture of him, his brother, and I on Instagram a few weeks ago as a throwback picture. It’s a picture of all of us at the beach a long time ago, when I was probably 4 or 5 years old. It’s such a cute picture! So he posted it on Facebook for me so I could have it too and I decided to use this picture for my assignment! So I used the Be Funky website, clicked on Effects, and chose one of the options given for the Pop Art effect. I really like how different this has made the photo and how it has made it even more playful than it already was! Loved it! Hope you guys do too!

Normal to Extraordinary!

Create a New You: Red Hair

“Fixed” up:

Changeyourself

Original:

Original

I personally think photo touch ups are fun to do, but aren’t needed in the media such as magazines.  However, this assignment sounded fun to do.

In high school, I took a “photography” (read: photoshop) class so I thought I was game. Wrong. That was years ago. So I googled and it this popped up and was helpful with doing my hair, lips and eyes. I made myself a red hair by messing with the saturation of my hair, did the same with my eyes and lips.

In my opinion, I look fake, most likely because I stink at outlining the area to fix.

Baby’s Blue Balloon Makes Her Fly

This assignment was to take a photo and turn into black and white, but keep the original color for one single object. I kinda knew how to do this just from fiddling around before with the photo editing software, Picasa, that I like to use for all of my pictures. But I couldn’t remember how to use it. So I just clicked the Help button and figured it out from there.

I used the Focal B&W effect to edit this photo. It enabled me to turn the picture black and white while keeping a circular area the original color. So I was just flicking through some of my favorite pictures from high school, and decided to use this picture and highlight the blue balloon. And the title of this blog post is from one of my favorite songs, “Black Balloon” by the Goo Goo Dolls just because the blue balloon made me think of it!

Blue Balloon

This is a picture from my senior year from my outdoor track team’s end of season banquet. I love this picture because it has some of my best friends in it and we all look so happy!

 

 

A new look for me.. Kinda ORANGE

SO for my final Visual Assignment for the week I decided to do an assignment called Create a New You! (: by Tiffany. This one was fun because I messed around on Photoshop to make myself looked wicked tan.. aka orange! (: “Take an existing photo of yourself, and edit in a way to give the picture a different look. Color your hair, change your eyes, whiten your teeth, get a “tan”, etc.” It was worth two stars!

Find Yourself… On a Perfume Bottle

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I won’t lie, since my name is Amber, I’ve been known to run around Bath and Body Works chasing my friends with bottles of “Sensual Amber”, telling them to smell how nice I smell. No shame.

Naturally, I already own… several… bottles of the stuff in various formulas (body lotion, sprays, body wash, etc.) The object of this assignment was to find your name on something in the world. This was again two stars.

So for this I took the spray bottle with the words “sensual amber” on it and stuck a pink Post It behind it so you could read it. I took a picture of it, emailed it to myself, and took it to my friend Gimp. I messed with the satruation so it would stand out a little more and here it is. I regret not using the lotion bottle that is easier to read but live and you learn I suppose.

Common Erryday Object: Plaid Scarf

Fixed up and messed with:

Everydayobjects

Original:

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I kinda procrastinated on this one, so I took my plaid scarf off that I wore that day and balled it up and took a picture of it with my dumb phone. There honestly is no inspiration to this one but “get it dooone!” Again, this one was two stars.

Anywho, after I emailed the picture to myself I opened up my buddy Gimp. Then I pretty much closed my eyes and slide the color balance things around and hoped for the best. I kinda like it. The white and the saturation is a little too much though. Oh wellll. I kinda like it.