The tutorial I chose to use focused on displacement maps and texture. I picked this topoic because I had no idea what it was therefore I thought it would be helpful to learn and a little challenging. In the first snapshot above I cut out the image of a flower from on of my pictures. Then I adjusted the brightness and contrast in the image and blurred it to create the displacement map.

In the second snapshot I placed the texture I wanted in the file. I deviated from the tutorial slightly by choosing a stone texture instead of a wooden texture. Once the image was placed in my file, I used the displacement filter to treat the texture.
In the third snapshot I masked the texture over the flower image.


Finally, I adjusted the opacity and fill of the texture so that some of the shading in the flower could show through. The only problem I had with the tutorial was reducing the file size of the images to between 75-100 kb. For example, although some of the images are at the lowest possible quality, they are still more than 100 kb.

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161117&page=3

Big Idea Brainstorming

perspective

how people view the world

how many people see one event

how perspective influences understanding other people

common themes of perspective

perspective in terms of family

perspective in terms of friends

how perspective changes over time/age

what is funny/offensive

Blog #1

The first work on top by Forrest Lucero shows an image of a forest or wooded area. The color of the image is munipulated to have a muted red tint to it. In the middle of the image are two quotation marks with empty space between them. To me this implies that the forest is speaking or making some kind of sound. Due to the muted the muted tone of the image, the forest looks almost whimsical. This leads me to believe that the artist is trying to say that we should take time and listen to nature's soothing sounds.

http://carlovely.tumblr.com/post/137489628/forrest-lucero

The work on the bottom also by Forrest Lucero depicts an image of the ground that is also muted in color. On top of the grass are the words "love should be like polariods." in all capitol letters. Beneath this phrase is an actual polaroid picture with the word "instant" inside. Although the first phrase is a large typesize in white capitol letters, the word instant stands out because of it's contrast due to it's small typesize and back coloring. This empasiszes the analogy that love should be instant like the development of polaroid pictures.

http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/07/07/forrest-lucero/#more-7000