ENDS 116 Project 2

My image is a front sectional view of the first and second floors of the family house. It emphasizes the view from the front door through the living room and into the backyard. By photoshopping figures into the foreground and background, I have given the visual viewer an easy way to relate to the image. The range of activities going on in the image (reading, talking, running outside) show the versatility of the different spaces of the house. The photoshop interface made this process fairly simple, given the numerous options at hand. The tools I used most heavily were “darken,” and “burn.” Darken allowed the figures to take on the same lighting as the room they were placed in. Burn allowed me to darken certain areas of their bodies and make shadows at their feet. One problem I encountered was the difference in “crispness” of the people and the space. The people tended to look cleaner around the edges than the objects around them, making them look out of place. To fix this I used blur, sharpen, smudge, and clone stamp tools. Overall the use of photoshop made this house more accessible in the typical client’s eyes.

I chose to use the posterization effect on one of the images because of its emphasis on shadows. I feel that it’s a simple way to bring out the hard and soft lines as if they were in a comic book. On the third image, I chose to use a color variant after converting to black and white because it gives the appearance of an old photo. By taking out the wide range of colors, it lets the viewer focus on the other aspects like subject matter and layout as opposed to wall color and fine details. Again, this easy change helps the eye to notice different things in the same image.

Image Citations

"34536652 Jorge Salcedo." Shutterstock Images. Web. 3 Apr 2010. .

"6980614 Phil Date." Shutterstock Images. Web. 3 Apr 2010. .

"Foto S.A. Photo and Servicing Agency." Foto S.A.. Web. 3 Apr 2010. .