blog assignment 2 (Ice Shark)

For the original image, I selected an image of a shark, selected it with the magnetic lasso tool, and moved it over the background of the iceburge.

In this step, I completely desaturated the shark and adjusted the color selection, specifically the neutral colors, and inversed the colors.

In this step, I incresed the cyan and blue levels to give the shark a blue, ice-like tint. After doing this, I took the eraser over it to make it look more transparent.

For the final step, all I did was move the shark's position, resulting in the finished image above.




http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/163129/ice-parrot

Blog Assignment 1

Shi Yao

Stone Pit



Lonely Town



Italy Town






Stone Pit:
- Denotations: an abandoned mine or quarry, looks like early 20th century, broken down, old everything is falling apart, you can see the broken bridge in the background, the stone architecture is in ruins and the is not verymuch left of it.
- Conotations: the artist may be trying to make a statement about how a once bustling work facility can turn into ruin once all of its recourses are exhausted and how poor and dangerous the site looks.

Lonely Town:
-Denotations: an old mideval looking allyway, probably the slums of a major city, a lone woman is walking down the allyway, cloths and rags are hanging out on cloths lines, ladders going across from roof to roof, some windows boarded up.
-Conotations: The allyway appears to be a poor part of the city because of the raggedy cloths hanging from window to window, the boarded up windows, and the ladders that extend from roof to roof. the boarded up windows could also indicate that it is not very populated and a place that people would try to stay away from. the lone woman walking appears to be carrying something (her hands are not at her sides), this could be a basket of food, a pile of dirty cloths that she is taking to be washed, or even a bucket that she is going to fill with water.


Italy Town:
Denotations: a mideval looking town (obviously Italian, revealed by the title), no people, a few wealthy looking buildings in the back, one building has a sign with a crest on it, a lone bare tree in the center, with stairs on both sides of it.
Conotations: the image appears to be a waelthier maketplace that leads up to a noblemans house. the streets are somewhat clean (for the time period), which is also an indication of a wealthier part of a city. the season could either be fall or early spring because of the bare tree in the center, the clear sky (Winter is generally cloudy all season long), and the birds flying in the sky (either returning from or flying to a place with warmer weather).


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