Posterize

Artist Reflection:
1. The strongest technical aspect of my work was the complementary colors. The placement of the opposites across from each other helps draw the eye around the piece.
2. The technical aspect of my work that could be improved upon is also the coloring. When using the magic wand tool, it would select different parts of the different images and that made them not all match. What was selected gives the face a different appearance than the full color image or even the black and white one.
3. The easy part about this activity was making copies of the picture and then adding the colors. Aside from the difficulty with the magic wand, the coloring itself was easy.
4. The difficult part about this project was getting the right colors. some colors it wouldn't let work, and others would appear to be the same as others on the image, when they were in fact different on the color selection.
5. I demonstrated the objective in this art activity by posterizing an image and then adding bright, contrasting colors.
6. If I could do this project again, I would try and make the color regions match. I would have made it more uniform and made sure that the coloring itself was cleaner.

Polaroid

Artist Reflection:
1. The strongest technical aspect of my work is the use of the old polaroid frames. It makes the piece appear more real and worn compared to how the stark white frames look.
2. The technical aspect of my work that could be improved upon is the placement of the polaroid frames. I think I could have made it flow better and made his arms more realistically popping out.
3. The easy part about this art activity was making the polaroids layered on top of each other. I simply used the layer mask tool and that was easy because it is something that I have done in a lot of other projects.
4. The difficult part of this project was making the polaroids flow and really make it look like they had been thrown down and scattered. Making sure that the lines were all places in the right spots to make it look like the photographs were on top of each other was difficult too. It was easy to lose track of what edges belonged to a certain photo.
5. I demonstrated the objective in this art activity by putting polaroid frames over a digital picture to make it look like they were a part of the same photo.
6. If I could do this art activity again I would make more drop shadows under the photos. I would make the pictures flow better and have better parts of the original picture popping out. I would probably choose a different background, maybe more of an obvious cityscape, too.