Blog Entry 5: Group Joiner Project

Photoshop Automate Feature

Manually-Assembled Digital Collage

Cut’n’Glue’d Collage

 

This project was very interesting to say the least. The idea of Joiner pictures is quite unique, and it makes for beautiful artwork. There are very many ways to represent a given moment, and a Joiner helps to capture all of them; it allows the artist to show what they want and intend to show in a given piece. My favorite part about this project was being able to think creatively to try a new type of artwork I have never done before. The most frustrating part of this project was simply working with tech and trying to get pictures uploaded/correctly transferred from phone to computer.

In my opinion, my 2nd image, the Manually-Assembled Photoshop collage was the most successful. To me, I see many patterns of linear use and repetition of shapes such as square that help to make the piece stand out to me. We kind of just made it as we went and ended up loving it. Many people saw many different aspects in that piece that weren’t even entirely intentional, the piece is just full of thought and wonder. All in all, the piece was successful because Photoshop is generally pretty user friendly and is a useful tool for creation. I believe for the most part, that Photoshop was capable of allowing the user to do whatever he or she wanted with their piece, but when Photoshop attempted it’s own automated feature, it was pitiful. Many groups were unsatisfied with the automate feature and for good reason – it didn’t really do much.

Photoshop is 100% a tool for creation in my opinion. It is a piece of equipment (technology) that allows an artist to express his or her inner creativity. It provides many features that help to do this such as filters, cropping tools, paint brushes, and so much more. In more ways that one it is actually easier to work with Photoshop then in real life, because if you make a mistake you can just delete it. For these same reasons however, Hockney hates Photoshop. He says work becomes too uniform and  perfect and loses side of human connection and creativity working with the blunders. These feelings are reflected in his artwork in how he manages to uniquely create joiner after joiner, each filled with a sense of connection and admiration. Work created by AI, algorithms, or computer is most certainly art, sometimes these forms of art are actually the most beautiful or aesthetically pleasing because these devices can create art in such accurate form that designs end up being very precise and perfect. Those pieces of equipment are all even forms of art, an algorithm is a piece of art in themselves. The structure behind them, the design process and the well-though out algorithms that are used to perform tasks, all of this is very calculated and must’ve taken an extremely creative and talented person to come up with.

 

 

 

Blog Entry 4: Composite Landscape

This is the piece I composed by combining multiples photographs together! Started with the water as my background, I then added a view of a city and put a gradient layer mask on the water background so that the sky would appear to be water. After this, I added a lady who was actually resting on an inner tube although it appears as if she may be doing a back-breast stroke. Next, I added in a guy swinging a golf club and a potted succulent just for fun. Below is a picture of my work from class.