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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFN4Hho4RNM This video explains how to manipulate photos, add vectors, and create projects from scratch. You are able to change the background color that will be shown in the original "background layer". He explains that the crop tool can be used to adjust the size of the photoshop document if needed. You re able to edit with different brushing tools on the left, just simply click and drag to edit.  These tools will all be helpful when getting used to using photoshop for the first time. Knowing about free drawing is a helpful tool when needing to add something small or significant to the project. I think that this guy did a good job explaining all the different features in a slow, educational way and makes me excited to know that it is not as intimidating as I thought. Especially since I did not know you were able to adjust the project size after you had already started.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF_jSrBhdlg All versions of photosho...

For this assignment we were asked to create a tagbrush out of our previously created logo. The logo is supposed to represent who we think we are as a person. The logo I created represents happiness and self love not only emotionally but physically. We were then asked to create a picture out of the tagbrush to which I then created a picture of a tree with grass and the sun. This tagbrush will be used on all projects upcoming to represent our work and our personal touch on the assignment.   

  For this assignment we were asked to create a self portrait to later then be used to create a propaganda poster. Attached above is the finished propaganda poster, the message "Do it for yourself, not for them". The poster is actually representative of an anti-propaganda message to not focus so much on following the status quo and do your own thing. As well as doing things to work on yourself instead of doing things to impress others. I chose this message because I have worked hard in the past few years to better my mental and physical health in the gym specifically. Because of this, I have noticed lots of others in the gym or in public in general doing things so that they are noticed by others or so that they are seen in a different way in the eyes of other people. This poster is supposed to represent the opposite and how working on yourself should be for the purpose of making yourself feel better, not for the approval of other people. The poster focused on a more positive ...

  The assignment was to create a logo that represents who you believe to be as a person. I found inspiration in images that represented happiness, as well as gym related things. I pride myself on being a pretty positive human being and part of obtaining that mindset is staying consistent in the gym and bettering my physical well being, along with my mental. The logo I created is a combination of a girl jumping around joyfully with a sun in her right hand and a dumbbell in the left. Representing my love for positivity and and fitness, the logo at the top of the screen is who I believe I am as a person. The three different color choices were chosen as happy bright colors with additional shades of the same color to compliment the dress. Each dress color is the base for the picture as the dumbbell and sun are compliments to it. 

                                                                                  Artist Statement:  Written above is a letter to my future self with my hopes, some dreams, and other current information that my 40-year-old self would enjoy looking back on. The included image represents the growth and personal change that I hope to endure over the next 20 years as I continue to learn more about myself. I look forward to reading this in the future and seeing how much of my life has changed and how many things came true that I hoped for. The calligramme is a flower and butterfly made up of words from the letter. Not only are there words from the letter but there are also words of affirmation and goals that I hope to achieve/continue to achieve....