Good examples vs. Bad Examples logos

Good examples: These logos are well known! As you can see, the company's products reflects on the interest! 

illustrator symbols

Another small project was to use our name (initials and full name) to create a symbol that express you. Symbols have been used in the world and is mainly recognizable! For me, I was TOLD that some of stuff are too cartoony... (Which I can agree too...) So hopefully I'll adjust it to make it more classic.

My self portrait with dream like background

For one of our big project, I used illustrator on myself with my hands on my chin. This is a common gesture to suggest that I'm thinking. In the background, there is a floating thought bubble with the SEPTA train in the cosmic night! In addition, there is water on the train tracks!
What I'm suggest is that I would ususally imagine things when I'm in the SEPTA train, since I'm always bored of the same routine!
This train in the water reference come from the movie, "Spirit Way", where the main character is taking a train in the ocean!

illustrator face project!

One of our main projects was to use illustrator program to make a self portrait! The process was very long! I wanted to focus more on the hands! Making you feel like I'm pressing down on something. (Which I was...)

 

 These are the symbols that represent who I am! The panda symbol represents the nickname was I was given during high school. During fall and winter, I wore a panda hat almost everyday. Ever since then, I was called "panda bear" or "panda chan" and such. 

The other two symbol are my hobbies! The left one is reading books during my spare time, which has shooting star that represents imagaination! 

The right one is karate, where I have a person dressed in a uniform and top on a fist!

Photoshop Fashion Industry vs our truelooks

One of the most well known problems in the world would be Photoshop edits. In the fashion industries, models are remade to be display for their cosmetic products.

Source #1: http://www.more.com/photoshop-pictures-reveal-retouching

To most women, their "skinny" body or flawless face is known as the perfect image. However, some viewers don't know would be that they are looking at a Photoshop model with edits. This brought a negative view to the world, as it caused more self esteem of our looks!

Source#2: http://heartifb.com/2012/07/17/the-photoshop-debate-where-do-bloggers-weigh-in/
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The Fashion Industries use of Photoshop has even influence other to retouch their own faces! However to most people, photoshop is not the crop the ulgy part of themselves, but to make a best version! To me, the use of Photoshop can help bring the best of yourself but what would you gain?
I believe that Photoshop gives the users a confidence feeling and self confidence! But does that positive energy comes from your true self?

Not only that, the fashion industry's products guarantees the viewers that their products will help improve their looks to look like their models! Another negative effects is brought once again as it gave an fake impression to weak minded teenager to change their looks.


Source #3" http://www.oddee.com/item_97271.aspx
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Lastly, Photoshop does not just make their viewers discourage but the models! There are some models that are known as reformed freaks because of their way their bodies were crop! Photoshop should not be used to create horrible disfigured models but to display them in a more beautiful way!






Source #4: http://shine.yahoo.com/fashion/supermodels-without-photoshop-1108305.html
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With the world getting use to the magic touches of "Photoshop", we tended to forget how we really look like! For example, this picture shows couples of models without Photoshop retouch! This make us realize that how much have Photoshop have affected us.







Source #5: http://www.collegefashion.net/fashion-news/fashionably-informed-retouching-and-photoshopping/
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Photoshop have the one tool that Fashion Industries depend on. Although the uses of Photoshop helps models to look best for their products, it also caused a lot of controversial. For example, in the website, Taylor Swift advertisement on promised teenagers that you have the perfect image through their products. They also note that famous actress and models uses these products too. However, it was not the product that made them beautiful, rather Photoshop retouches! It ask the world, should we trust what the Cosmetic industries display on TV? 



Overall, I believe that Photoshop is a tool to present yourself through the best way! However, does it really represent who you are inside? True beauty is both outer and inner beauty.
The use of Photoshop in my opinion depends on the user. With the right hand, one can make wonderful image that doesn't offend the viewers and the models! But if it was place in the wrong hands, there will be more troubles that are caused by a simple tool known as Photoshop!

My three photo shop stuff

#1 (My first homework!)- I started to pay around with stuff like mixing and blending in my pics!
#2 (In class assignment)- I began to looks for pics in the internet that may suit the background.
(For example, does the deer image fits with the lighting and shadows of the forest?)
I also began to take small sections of the pics and made new layers! I took the new layers and merge them together.
#3 (My second homework)- Since my old homework almost looked like the first photoshop that I worked on, I decided to change the background in a vertical view. This time, I added different pics that may suit the scene.