Thawsif Mursalin
Project 4
Visual Design
Ms. Ramirez

Project 4 Reflection Questions 

       

       In this project what we had to create a silhouette with bordered words around it and a collage of a person that you admired. In my case I made 2 of them, however the one that should be graded is the one of my brother. I admire my younger brother because he is smarter than I am. He is at the age of 15 a year younger than I am. He was able to take many exams one of which was extremely memorable, the SHSAT. He got into Math, Science, and Engineering a specialized school. I have always admired him because I knew he was special, he was gifted. This is the reason why my brother was chosen for the person I admire. In the creation of the silhouette first I took his image and made a quick selection using the magic wand tool. After I got the selection I made the background blurred out using a surface blur. Next I placed a gradient on the selection; it was the blend between red, orange, and yellow. With that done my background was left, and I changed the gradient of that as well, a transparent green. Finally with the text tool and the path tool I created a path around my selection and wrote a description of my brother, concluding the silhouette part of this project.

         For the collage I simply choose 10 photos to put into the final outcome all about things that my brother likes which is not that far off from what I like. In the collage I cut out the inside of the selection, next I pasted all the pictures and put them behind the collage template which I now have from emptying that space. Finally the last step I did was filling all the transparent spaces with images re-arranged and resized keeping all the rations intact with the nondestructive shift key. In my opinion this project was quite easy and fun to do. I had fun with this project because of how we were able to personalize it with much more freedom than other projects. I see myself using this in the future for creating memorable events, or even projects in school. This is a great way to really, “wow” the teachers or maybe even gain Extra credit. I was able to do a second silhouette and collage this time with one of my favorite song writers, Taylor Swift. I used the same process as before only this time I used google images which was much more fun because again there was much more freedom and a wide variety of choices!