Contact Sheet Rational:

In the first Row, we discovered the different resolutions in photoshop. In the first box, the resolution was fairly low, only 72 DPI. You can tell that it is poor quality because the picture is obviously much more blurry than the others. As I moved up and changed it to 300 dpi, it became more clear, as with the next increase at 600 dpi. Finally the clearest picture was the resolution at 1200 dpi. I learned changing the resolution of pictures can greatly change the quality in any work you do on photoshop.

In the second row, I tested formats/modes. It's clear that the first picture is black and white. It gives the butterfly a very elegant look to it. The next picture is duo tone, where you pick a few colors and it makes almost a hue of these colors and can drastically add effect to the final outcome of a picture. For example the butterfly was changed to a very greyish red orange and almost makes the image appear to be old. In the third box is the normal picture that would appear on the internet in RGB (Red, Green, Blue). It looks very normal and is the general standard for photoshop. Finally in the last picture is CYMK color, which is basically like the secondary colors in photoshop. The butterfly appears very bright and colorful. For the picture of the butterfly it deffinetly adds the most appeal to the eyes.

In the third row on the contact sheet, I played around with Orientation. The box closest to the right is the regular landscape from a picture I retrieved on google. It is rectangle and the lengths on the bottom and top are much larger than that on the sides. In the middle box, I cropped the image to form a perfect square. Each side is the same length. Then in the first box on the left i cropped the image to create a portrait, which is the opposite of the landscape. In this image, the length of the two sides is longer than that of the length of the bottom and top. Each picture has its own unique quality and should be used according to what focus of the picture is.

In the fourth row, I tested Framing out on photoshop. The first picture is obviously on the right and is of a small buliding with a cocola sign to the right. As the pictures move to the left I frame each of them and without changing the size of the image, I keep zooming in until it is eventually only on a large picture of the cocola sign. The images are not tampered with or stretched in any way, they are simply zoomed in on a particular item in the photo.

In the fifth row, I used framing again to play with the content in a photo. I started off with the picture of the windmill on the right. Each picture to the left is framed to be more zoomed in than the last. Finally on the left picture it is so zoomed in that you can't even tell what the image actually is. It looks more like a fence than a windmill.

Finally in the 6th row, I used different filters to create different purposes for each image. I used a picture of the joker from Batman. The First picture (starting from the left I used a neo glow filter and made the color purple becasue the joker was always related to purple and green colors. It give the image a very eerie look and also goes well with the white makeup on his face. The next image I used a water paper filter, which may not be very joker-esqu but it deffinetly was a unique effect to play around with. It makes the picture obviously much more blurry but it also gives in a somewhat glossy effect and makes the colors lighter and brighter too. The next image I used "Ink Outlines" filter. It added darker inky looking lines and deffinetly made every dark feature in the joker stand out even more. The final image was just the one I started out with, or the journalistic view of the joker.

- I chose this particular quote, not only because it is by Eleanor Roosevelt who is was a strong, powerful woman in society, but also because it can inspire todays society to be creative and do something important for world that makes a difference.

- For the fonts, I kept the words that weren't as important as yellow because it went well with the background and helped the more important words to stick out. I wanted to make the word future look very, well, futuristic. I embossed it and almost made it look chrome-like. Belongs was a little more difficult because you can't really describe what "belongs" looks like, but I made it almost a rainbow like scheme because each color in the rainbow belongs together and fits well. I wanted the world 'believe' to have almost a god-like appearance so I put an outer glow and left the color and extremely light yellow. The beauty I really wanted to look girly and made it bright pink and very cuvy. I also made it shiny so it looked as if it was very done up. The word 'dreams' waw inteded to almost look like the clouds, very wavy and light colored.

- What I found most challenging about this project was deffinetly just getting used to photoshop. I've always had a creative spark but I never actually used the program before. It turned out to be a long process but it was actually fun because I got to play around with all different colors, backgrounds, and fonts.

-Becuase my main problem was actually learning how to use the software the only way I could fix it was to actually take the time to play around with all the different effects until I found something that I liked

-I'm deffiently most proud of the actual final project in general. If you look at the difference between my first black and white draft and my final draft they are much different and for the better. I worked hard on the final colored copy and I feel like I did the best I could with the knowledge I had.

-If I had more time I probably would have just worked around with the colors to make it so they worked better together. They don't exactly match and work as a whole even though they still each have their own individual reasoning.