So needless to say, i won't be a graphics designer

Photoshop was a lot harder to maneuver than i though. The project idea was simple enough but learning a new program is always a challenge for me, especially when it comes to graphics. Although i have worked on graphics with final Cut, Photoshop is much more involved. Along with Matt M, Matt F and Kimi we are filming a behind the stage look at CAM's fall play, "Caucasian Chalk Circle", which premiers this Thursday. For the photoshop project i wanted to make a billing of the documentary. 

I started with a black and white photograph taken by Matt from rehearsal. The photo was of the back of one of the actors head. How it looked in the harsh shadows was really captivating yet when i tried to use the lasso tool to cut out just the person from the background it lost it's effect. Messing around with different backgrounds and filters i just could not get the right look that i wanted and the picture of the person didn't look so great. Although the photos Matt took were awesome, none looked well in Photoshop. Square one. 

After messing with several of the rehearsal photos and not getting a desirable effect i decided to go in search of my own image. The images i found of the Caucasus mountains held a lot of depth and were beautiful to look at, also i though it would be better to include an image that held meaning to the play but was not an image you would see in the documentary. The picture is of a small stone house with a chimney and a fence post in front of it. The little house is at the base of the Caucasus mountains and there are multiple greens and blues to work with. At first i tried to edit it in black and white but that took the contrast out, plus i liked it better with color. Through the Photoshop book i learned a lot of little tricks like the history brush, i used the history brush to apply a filter to the image. The colored pencil filter looked really neat, and then i used the history brush to take the filter off of the house in the foreground. 

The titles on the print are not exactly the look i had in mind but still look OK. I distorted the titles to make them bend so they appear like a circle. Overall, i still have a lot to learn with Photoshop and would have liked to have added multiple layers to my piece. If there was anything specifically i would have like to learn more of it would be added multiple layers and working with the lasso tool to perfect an image.