ha! HA! I hope this is not a crime against humanity.  I took a picture of my little cousin Giselle and transformed her from a very gorgeous baby into a scary baby. I am really proud of myself. I used Picnik and an effect called the focal zoom! All you have to do is click on which art of the face you want to zoom out and then effects according to your preference.Enjoy!

For this assignment, I used a picture I had taken for the dailyshoots. I did a little bit of editing in Picasa but the changes weren’t so major so eventually I settled  on Picnik. Am not the most creative person out there and am not ashamed to admit it. This is my best shot.

For my last Visual Assignment, I decided to pull out the stops. I anchored down and did some serious bulkr downloading and Picasa creating. If you read my previous posts on averaging collages, you’ll notice I found a rather boring element of uniform “fogginess” in the finished products, with the exception of one collage I saw which was made from the first 50 results of the search for “Blue” on flickr. This got me thinking. I decided to make an averaged picture for each of the seven generally-accepted colors in the rainbow. This set begins with my results for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Indigo, and Violet. I then made a 7×1 grid collage of those averaged pictures in order from Red to Violet. I still wasn’t too satisfied with the final result; sure, it looked like a rainbow, but a dull one. So I decided to explore Picasa’s other image-editing tools. After tinkering for a while, I tried the “I’m feeling lucky” button, and the rainbow took on a vivid, luminous quality! I’m very pleased with the finished product, and I consider it my favorite of the Visual Assignments.

Ishtori Haparchi – Face to Face With Another Problem

My random article was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtori_Haparchi.
My random quote was  ”All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.).
My random picture was Weirdo, by Lord Jezzer.

I’ll confess that I didn’t pick the original image that came up. It was a waterfall. I liked this more. When it came to writing the text on the cover, I chose to write it freehand with my Bamboo Pen tablet. I did this because I hate picking out a font. I really should make a random font picker. I’m really pleased with the result, but I don’t think it’s because there’s anything objectively awesome about it. I think most of this assignment is valuable based on the ambiguity it brings to the finished product. This has helped me see the averaging assignment in a different, better light.

First off thanks Timmmmyboy for creating this assignment and the tutorial to go with it. It was great to be walked through a tool I had  never used before in Photoshop. And second thanks to ds106 for always finding ways to exercise your creative side!

I deviated a little from Tim’s assignment by selecting 30-50 photos from the top 100 when searching for the terms: red, yellow, and blue. I also spent a little time resizing photos in each layer so that they filled the entire layer as well as allowing me to make a some choice about which part of the image I wanted to use. Finally I played around with the various Stack Modes. In the end I chose to use the “Median” for each smart object.

It’s kind of humorous to me how Photoshop basically has created an “Abstract Expressionist” filter for a bunch of images. I wonder what Mark Rothko would have thought about this process. His “multiforms” feel eerily similar – here are a red, yellow and blue.

My deliberation was a mixture of search, selection, and reframing combined with an algorithm. Actually sounds quite “Modernist.”