Reflection | Project 1

The project 1 is divided into two parts which is physical collage and digital imaging exercises.

Before we get into the project 1, we attended a collage workshop with Mr Fauzi. We prepared the magazine and cut out the selected image to become my source for collage. The magazine that I brought was a fashion magazine, hence I decided to come up some collage related to the fashion theme.

This was the first collage that I produced, it was about looking for fashion with fun. In this collage I tried to combine the scene with perspective view, add sunglasses and bag to emphasize on the fashion and fun word.

This was my favourite collage as it was talking about a man with a sad mood cheered up by a kid. In this collage, I tried to add some emoji to show the mood and a little wording as the background content.

The third one was about the fashion in meditate.

After few testing and tutorial with Mr Martin, I decided to combine some of the elements to create another piece of collage. The final piece was a combination of the first two pieces of collage.

 

Part 2

The first digital imaging exercise is the heart mansion assignment. I cut out myself from the other photo using quick selection tool and paste it in the heart mansion photo, then use the match colour tool to make the image gel into the whole concept.

After rescale and matched the self image, I created a reflection by duplicated the original photo and flipped it to make it looks more realistic.

The next steps is create the water reflection effect by selecting the ripple function.

Finally this is the completion of the photo!

1. Copy skin and hair photo from the other photo.

2. Paste the photo into the main photo and use eyedropper tool [I] to select the suitable skin colours and use brush tool to mark it at the corner for later use. Use quick selection tool [W] to select the skin and mask it. Select the mask and use the refine edge brush tool, adjust the smart radius to refine the edge of the selection. Once done, select the solid colour and use eyedropper to choose the most suitable hair colour from the corner there, drag the mask to the solid colour bar there and change the blending option into soft light.

For the following part of the pictures, I repeated the steps above to colour all the part.

FINAL OUTCOME:

REFLECTION

Overall, it was the first time that I tried to do physical collage with the material that I had in hand. The process was interesting but take time. During the whole process, I understand the importance of composition and the golden ratio, rule of thirds etc. Besides I also realised the pen tool was not that difficult to use as I thought.