Midterm

For this assignment, I chose to use the UVA Rotunda logo and in it, incorporate popular Charlottesville/Crozet restaurants. Overall, I like it, but the logo I used was not the best quality and there were a lot of outcast pixels that I wish I could have cleaned up and made the image look more clean. If I had more time to work on it, I would definitely fix that.

For the splash, I followed the tutorial, adding different splashes around my object to make it look as realistic as possible. At first, I followed the tutorial for the background too, but I didn't think it looked realistic enough. I played around with a bunch of different images until I found on that worked well. After changing the splash to match the ocean using a color filter and the color replacement brush, I selected the part of the pineapple that would be underwater and lowered the opacity. I also selected the ocean and lowered the opacity on that too to make the pineapple look like it was actually underwater. Overall, I liked how this turned out, although it was a struggle to get it to look right.

"To Save One Life is to Save The World" - Holocaust Project

For this project we had to capture the theme of "To Save One Life is to Save The World." I knew I wanted to incorporate newspapers from the Holocaust and pictures. I decided to use the word "Heroes" and have pictures of heroes in the word. There is a picture of American Soldiers, the Big Three, an injured soldier, a child with his parents, and FDR. I chose these because I feel that in some way all of these people had done something to save someone's life and therefore- saved the world. I then also added an American Flag to the background and blended it with the newspapers to give it a subtle background that embodied America's involvement in the Holocaust. To finish it off, I emphasized the theme by adding the quote at the bottom in a simple font. I really liked how this turned off. I think it is fairly simple, yet it highlights that tragedy and embodies the theme.