The finished piece!

The painting I used to crop my face into is called Time Flies by Frida Kahlo. I chose this painting because I have always loved Kahlo’s work and the idea she has of purity of herself. She doesn’t try to alter her facial hair and often embodies strength in her paintings. To edit my face onto the painting, I first had to take a color swatch of the painting’s face and a color swatch from mine. From here you use the color curve to obtain the color numbers. Changing the output of the numbers allowed for my face to have a mask layer that matches the color of Kahlo’s. After this, parts on my face were deleted and the obscurity was played with to get a proportional picture. From here, the polygon tool was used to add texture and color back into the picture.

Photoshop Color Manipulation

Greyscale:

To convert an image to greyscale, you go to the tab at the top of the page named image, scroll down to mode, then click greyscale.

Monotone:

To convert an image to monotone you must first follow the steps to convert it to greyscale, then go back to the image tab, scroll down to mode, then choose duotone.

Desaturate:

To desaturate an image you must go to the image tab at the top of the page, scroll down to adjustments tab, and choose desaturate.

Channel Mixer:

To use channel mixer on an image you must go to the bottom right corner of the screen and click the circle that is half shaded. From here you will get a red, blue, and green scale which you can alter the color of the picture with.

Elements of Art

Line: Path of a moving point

Color: objects’s chromatic quality

Value: Lightness or darkness of an object’s color

Form: Three-dimensional aspect of an object

Texture: Tactile quality of a surface

Space: Positive & negative areas defined by sense of depth

Shape: Two-dimensional quality of an object

Principles of Design

Balance: Distribution of visual weight

emphasis- putting stress on a particular subject

Contrast: Arrangement of opposite elements

Movement: Object created to guide viewer’s eye

Repetition: Repeated object or shape

Proportion: Relationship of objects to each other

Unity: Combining similar elements to make piece come together as a whole

Pattern: Repetition of visual element

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