Blackbird Calligram

lyrics by The Beatles

Blackbird is one of my favorite Beatles song. It is a beautiful and simple song to go along with a beautiful and simple image of a blackbird singing in the night. I liked this project and I love how my image turned out.

Rotoscopy- hand painted self-portrait in vectors

vector version

original picture

This took FOREVER. Each little vector shape was hand-drawn and then filled in with the exact color of my face, using the eyedropper tool. I felt like I was making camouflage of my face. It turned out exactly how i wanted it though. I think its awesome that this image can be printed as large or as little as I want, and still no pixels!

Tutorials

Photoshop-

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/the-maiden-and-hummingbird-photo-manipulation.html

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/combine-photo-elements-to-create-a-surreal-photo-manipulation.html

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2008/03/10/adobe-photoshop-cs3-tutorials-extract-complex-shapes/

Illustrator-

http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/gmesh/

http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/illustrator-how-to-make-custom-swooshes-swirls-and-curls/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-h92VWRricOI/illustrator_cs3_tutorial_using_brush_tool_to_trace_sketch/

1st Attempt at Illustrator

Illustrator was annoying to me at first because I had no idea what to do. After I started playing with it, I stared to like it more and more. I like the fact that every little thing can be manipulated. Also, it is very clean with nooo pixels.

postcards

GIF/JPG

GIF- 30 colors, 25% dither, diffusion- 26.25K
GIF- 2 colors, 50% dither, noise- 7.913K
GIF- 2 colors, 85% dither, pattern- 4.67K
GIF- 16 colors, 85% dither, diffusion- 23.91K
GIF- 8 colors, dither 25%, noise- 47.63K
GIF- 16 colors, dither 25%, pattern- 28.76K
GIF- 64 colors, dither 25%, diffusion- 29.98K
GIF- 256 colors, dither 50%, diffusion- 52.07K
JPG- 100%- 84.61K
JPG- 50%- 19.79K
JPG- 25%- 11.55K
JPG- 0%- 6.494K
GIF- 4 colors, dither 25%, diffusion- 14.22K
GIF- 8 colors, dither 50%, noise- 31.3K
GIF- 16 colors, dither 50%, pattern- 48.8K
GIF- 64 colors, dither 71%, diffusion- 72.76K
JPG- 0%- 11.23K
JPG- 25%- 24.72K
JPG- 50%- 44.39K
JPG- 75%- 98.57K
JPG- 0% 11.23K
GIF- 4 colors, dither 50%, diffusion- 19K
GIF- 8 colors, dither 75%, selective- 37.34K
GIF- 16 colors, dither 75%, pattern- 45.31K
GIF- 64 colors, dither 75%, diffusion- 60.76K
JPG- 0%- 5.36K
JPG- 25%- 10.27K
JPG- 50%- 20.53K
JPG- 75%- 91.13K
JPG- 100%- 145.7K

This excersize was very helpful in understanding different sizes. Uploading different jpeg sizes helped me to see what still looks good at a reasonable size....GIFS, however were a lot more fun to play with because when i messed with them, the image was completely transformed.

Places I have never been...

Me at Stonehenge!!!
Me at Warwick Castle!!





background photos by Caulene Hudson

This assignment was fun because I got to pretend that I have been to Europe! Both of the pictures of Stonehenge and Warwick castle were take by my sister when she went to Europe a couple of summers ago. The photo of me was taken in my kitchen. Haha