Big Idea: Spirituality

Artist: Ann Hamilton

This artist is appealing for the bizzare and technological. Her big ideas include spirituality, place, identity and consumption. I am inspired by the scale of her pieces. They are usually installation pieces which are larger than life. This artist's work will be used to inspire the elements in my final. It will use grand scale and high contrast lighting to create a dramatic effect.

Both artist's images can be found at art21
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?show=96

"ghost…a border act"

"Untitled"















Artist: Mel Chin

This artist is inspiring because he tackles immense digital design. He constructs maze like patterns for a 3-D effect. It is visually very interesting. His big ideas include loss and desire, consuption, spirituality and memory. I have been struggling with making my images "full". I am inspired to make my images more intricate and filled with interest.

"Knowmad"

"Revival Field"

Photoshop Tutorial

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/design-layout-techniques.html

Ok. So I've typed this four times now and I spent three hours on a tutorial that wouldn't work for me. This is the last time. No thanks to bubble berry on worth1000, I was already frustrated with this. Thankfully I found a tutorial on planet photoshop to make a movie poster. I used a video game. For some reason I can't upload images to this blog. I would really appreciate any input about that.

I started with a black background and used the single row marquee tool to create white lines that would give me areas to put photos into. I used the rectangular marquee tool to make the bottom right box.

This image was achieved by simply adding an image using the magic wand tool to highlight the section I wanted and adding my image through copy and paste.

I filled each area with an image pertaining to the game and filled one block with a swatch color.

The final image has inner glow in the text blocks and a black gradient on all of the outer edges. The text is supposed to be actor characters for the movie so i just made up last names for the two characters I chose for the images. The bottom image has an adjustment layer that enhanced the peach color.