Raven Collage

Out of all the projects shown this one is by far the most complicated because it involved 6 pictures and editing each individually. The first part to this project was editing the background of the school by taking out the otherwise distracting light poles. This was done using a tool that I hadn't seen in illustrator, that would be the clone stamp tool. It allowed me to copy the area selected with alt and replace the area that I dragged it over. Then the raven was cut out using another tool I hadn't seen before: the magnetic lasso tool. This was for the most part pretty easy to use because unlike the rest of the program it was easy to undo by just clicking the delete button. then I used the brush in a different way to fade the pictures together. Finally I adjusted the transparency, cropped the picture and added a border.

ONW

This project was relatively simple I started with a picture of the school then opened a new project and added the compass and resized it. Next I added the compass to the school background then I used the magic eraser to get rid of the white box and other unnecessary white spaces. The next step I did was blending the compass with the sky and clouds. finally I added the type over the top of it and just as the last I finished with adjusting the transparency and cropped it.

Northwest

This project surprisingly out of all of the projects gave the most trouble. I found the type tool very frustrating during this because it seemed to finalize too fast and it was difficult to adjust after it was typed. Then trying to add the gradient was difficult and I had a lot of trouble with it. Over all this project I had more problems with then all of the others.

Rainbow Butterfly

This was my favorite of all the projects because it was simple but it still had lots of freedom with changing the color and and adding the blur with the clone stamp tool. At first I did have some trouble with the magic wand were it wouldn't select the entire orange section but only parts of it. In the end I feel this one turned out very well.