PSA's

So i chose to do my PSA on single parenting. The pictures didn't come out quite as i originally pictured but they still work. here is my "copy" or the paragraph we had to write about our subject.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are 13.7 million single mothers and fathers currently raising their children in the U.S. and this number has remained the same since 1994. Most single parents are mothers with 82.6% and fathers only accounting for 17.4%. Whether or not the parent is a mother or father, those children are still more at risk than children with two parents. For example, single parent kids are more likely to be killed, to commit suicide, to become teen moms, to have behavioral problems, to be incarcerated, to drop out of school, and to commit rape. But don’t worry these risk factors are preventable and will not happen to everybody. If you are or know somebody who is a single parent and need help go to http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Benefits.shtml. You may also visit

http://www.grants.gov/ . There are many other federally funded institutions that could help as well. Just remember, be a parent.

And now here are my pictures...

Hope you like them:)

my warhol images

I don't know why this image came out so small. Hope you guys can see it.

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

final photoshop-

For this assignment we had to choose an image to adjust in photoshop. We have learned many different techniques in photoshop, so which one do I choose? Do I do something simple like turning the image from color to black and white? Or do I do something more difficult like color layering? There are so many options to choose from. I decided on a fairly simple technique called copy and pasting. Its procedure is just how it sounds—you copy and paste one image onto another. That is the jist of this technique. Just kidding I am going to explain more in the next paragraph so keep reading.

            So as I said earlier the process or procedure for this technique is fairly easy to do. What did I do to get my final outcome? Well first, I chose two images. For this photoshop image, we could use other pictures that were not our own. I chose a picture of San Francisco Giants’ closer, Brian Wilson and a picture of the president’s oval office. Ok here we go, I am going to take you step by step through this process. It doesn’t take very long so I might digress a little just to prolong it. No I’m only kidding or am I? I am doing it right now. For real now, here is the step by step process. So, the first thing I did was open these images in photoshop. Next, I clicked on the oval office picture and checked its image size. Then, I did the same thing for the Brian Wilson image. I was in luck because both of the images were the same size and lazy me didn’t need to change them. Next, I clicked on the magnetic lasso tool which is located on the upper left hand side of the page. I used the magnetic lasso to select Brian Wilson out of his original image. My first attempt to get a clean cut Wilson failed; actually it took me a couple of tries to get the perfect outlined copy. After I got the best copy of Wilson that I could get, I went to the edit menu and selected copy. I then proceeded to paste Wilson on the image of the oval office. Then, I chose the edit menu and clicked ‘free transform’ so I could adjust Wilson to the size I wanted. I adjusted Wilson and put him in the president’s desk. Once I was finished with that, I flattened the image so I could put a filter or some other effect on it. Instead of a boring photo filter I decided to put an effect. I went to the image menu, clicked adjustments and chose threshold. I don’t know if we could just do threshold without color layering, but I did because I only wanted that effect. Well, that was the process step by step; it wasn’t too hard or too long to follow, right?

so brian wilson as president?? i say yes.

Andy Warol

Some facts about Andy Warhol:
-Andy was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh as the son of Slovak immigrants. original name was Andrew Warhola
-worked as an illustrator for magazines like Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar
-His first iconic image was a painting of a Campbell’s soup can>>was an idea he’d bought from the gallery owner Muriel Latow for $50
-didnt enjoy using paint so sister suggested that he do silk screening
-did portraits of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Troy Donahue and Liz Taylor
-then did images based on car crashes, race riots and electric chairs
-then did flower paintings
-1964 made The Factory
-June 1968  shot by Valerie Solanas but survived
-He died as the result of a routine gallbladder operation on Feb. 22, 1987.

(source of info ny times article about him)

some of his artwork

Photoshop pictures

Ok so this is an image with a photo filter. The first thing i did was open the original image in photoshop. Next, i duplicated the background layer. After that, i pulled down the image menu and clicked on adjustments. i chose 'photo filter' as my adjustment and brought up this box thing where you could chose what filter you wanted. i think i chose cooling filter 82 because it made the image a purple-y color that i liked. the original image was more orange-y since it was sunrise. 

This is a black and white photo with color emphasis. the first thing i did was upload the image and duplicate the background layer. Next i used the magnetic lasso tool to select the part of the image i wanted to keep in color. i chose to keep the yellow in color. so after i selected that with the lasso i went to the select menu and chose 'select inverse'. that makes it so it selected everything around the middle of the flower. then i went to image>adjustment>desaturate.

For this image i duplicated the background. then i made sure both images were the same size. then i used the magnetic lasso tool to select the flower. i clicked copy and then pasted it on the tree. then i did that lasso again and copy and pasted the second flower on the tree again. i did free transform to adjust the flowers to a good size. then i flattened the image and saved as a jpeg.

blended. hmm what did i do to this image to make it look like that. well first i made sure the two images were the same size. then i picked my target image(the one i wanted as a background). then i went to the image menu and clicked apply image. then a box popped up and i chose the other image in a drop down menu. <that makes no sense but i think people in my class know??.. after that i flattened the image. when it was one image i went to image>adjustments>photofilter. i forgot which filter i chose but i think it was a cooling one. Wait, no. it was a choice from the drop down box where it says 'multiply'. i think i used hard light but i am probably wrong...

little toy photoshop. For this image i really dont remember how i made little willie blue. i know that i used a photo filter to make the background that color. the filter i chose was sepia. hmm i think i might have duplicated the image a few times and then flattened them into one. after the sepia, somehow i turned willie blue with a blue filter and adjusted the  opacity to make it darker. (dont ask why i put him in dodger colors. yuck.) Then i duplicated the image like nine times(one for each glove). i used the lasso tool to select the glove and pasted it somewhere on the car's seat. i repeated that nine times and that is how i got this effect.

Blended & Copy/Paste Photoshop images

In this blended image, I mixed my unity picture of daisies and my movement and rhythm photo. After i did the steps to blend the image, i messed around with the kind of effect. I think i chose 'vivid light'. After that i changed the hue of the image to make it look that light blue color.

For this image, i used a picture from the nature walk and the flower from the black/white stuff. I just copied and pasted the flower twice(one on each tree). i thought it would make the image look like two giant flowers. i dont know if really gets that full effect but it still looks cool.

fisheye photoshop

here's fisheyeeeee... oops i forgot to crop it