Photoshop Tutorials

 I chose three easier Photoshop tutorials to try. One covered a smoke dispersion effect that used mostly layer masks and brushes, one was a simple lighting effect exercise, and the last one invovled more practice using dispersion effects that we learned in Friday's class.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyEZtfteAY

http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutorial/space-lighting-effects-in-10-steps/517

http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-water-effect-photoshop-cc

The Cyclical Nature of Things: scannograms

Scans of handmade paper, dried flowers, and stones that I will use as elements of my final image.

The Cyclical Nature of Things: process photos

These are contact sheets with photos I am drawing from for this project. There are old photos, photos of old drawings, and new photos that I have compiled as my sources for the project.

The Cyclical Nature of Things

My idea for this project is influenced by my interest in art therapy and the spiritual and psychological life of people. I want to focus on the cyclical nature of beauty/joy and pain, focusing on how humans have the ability to experience both at once. I think that in life beauty and suffering comes in cycles, but it's the ability of the human spirit to acknowledge their existence simultaneously that really interests me. My intent is to use botanical and natural elements as symbols for both suffering and beauty, utilizing both images of plant matter and pressed, dried flower scans. I would like to use flowers and other natural subjects to make an image that is beautiful, but somewhat haunted.

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