The strongest technical aspect of my work was the cutting out the background of my picture. I spent a while on this in order to make the picture accurate without the white marks in the background.  I could have worked on the position of the polaroids framing the girl in my picture. I think I could have  got part of her leg and parts of her coat. Other than that, I think I have done a good job with the other aspects of the polaroid project.

    The easy part of this project was finding a subject picture for the project along with the background images and the color. Another easy part of this project was finding and copying the empty polaroids. A difficult part about this project was figuring out how to do the background. We had to cut out around the entire image and I did mine several times to cut out the hands and feet carefully. I was frustrating and annoying to do along with the other images in the background.

   I used the lasso tool multiple times in order to do the background of this project. I used the lasso tool with the subject of the project along with the polaroids to make them clear. I had to do tho with the music notes also to fit the background theme of dance and for it to blend with the pink. If I could change something about this project I would change the three images in the background. It was difficult to find three images that had dance in common and that could easily relate. It would have been easier to just do a background color and image so the project would not be overwhelming and take away form the main subject of the project.

  

           The strongest technical aspect of my work was the effect the elves have in the photo that make them stand out because of the desaturation. The flowers are red and orange, the background is black and white. I could have improved on the erasing of the endues of the leaves. When i was filling in the leaves some of the color went onto the background, i fixed most of it and it looks much better but some of the sides i could not fix because they were to small, even when the brush was on a smaller size.

          The easy part of this art project was the desaturation of the picture. Once i found the tool, all I had to do was click a few buttons and the picture was all black and white. Another easy part of this project was coloring the leaves in. A difficult part in this project was being careful of coloring in the leaves and not coloring the background. The leaves have many sides and angles so it was hard to get with the different brushes that i used.

         I demonstrated the objectives in this art activity by desaturating the image and re-coloring in the leaves to stand out in the picture. If I could do this art project again I would have changed the objective of the project because it was confusing and I think it is something we could have done on our own and not in a project. To me it felt more like a leasing on how to use photoshop and it could have been something we could have done as a class.

                  The strongest technical aspect of my work was painting of the flower. I lowered the opacity to blend the original color of the flower and the color I painted the flower. the original flower had a shine to it, so with the new color, purple, the shin was still there. I think I could have improved on the blending or shade of the colors i used to paint the flower. I wish I could have made it look less fake even though I did lower the opacity. For example, the yellow in the center if the flower looks fake and painted, even thought the original white flower had a vibrant yellow in the center anyway.

                The easy part of this captivity was choosing the photo to paint. I decided to use a white flower to make the color easier to paint over with. The difficult parts were figuring out how to use photoshop and understand the tools. I had a hard time discovering what the different tools did for each aspect of the project. Another difficult thing was painting the flowers center because it did loo fake and not well done even though i put it on a low opacity. The center in the original had a bright yellow and green in the center so i decided to make the center yellow, green and purple to blend and balance the entire image out.

              I demonstrated the objective in this art project by using different brushed and blending the colors to create a painting of a purple flower. If I could do this art project again I would not have done anything differently. This is because this was a simple project and it helped me get use to photoshop. It helped me get use to the set-up and discovering the different things you can do with photoshop for this project and others that come along.