Sarah Grossman Digital Media

 I think this image would be the hardest to edit myself into because of the harsh lights and having to take into account all the little water drops.   This photo gives me an idea for a "somewhere" project. I choose it because I like the snowy landscape and the trees. This photo made me laugh. I am really interested in creating this illusion because I like the way the artist combines lights and visual effects. 

  Artist statement: My portrait is a picture of my Halloween costume face paint . I dressed up as a skeleton, so I had skeleton face paint on. I used split complementary colors picked from adobe.color.com to fill in my portrait. I used the quick selection tool to pick what areas to fill in and then I used the fill tool to fill in the color. I went into select and mask and used brush tool and refine edge tool to fix stuff up.   

  Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners 2022 | Everything You NEED to KNOW! - Bing video   I am excited to play around with the fonts in photoshop. There seems to be a lot of different tools to create different fonts. I like the different blending modes photoshop has to offer. The example in the video where the user uses a photo of light and makes it look natu ral is intriguing .     Photoshop Tutorial For Beginners - Top 10 Things Beginners Need to Know - Bing video   One thing that might be a little difficult is the different workspaces  in photoshop. I do not know which one we will be using in class. I like that there are many different layers, like a lot of different programs. I am a little worried about working with the saturation in layers.     Photoshop Art Tutorial: Beginner Friendly Tutorial - YouTube   The black masks seem like a fun tool I am just a little confused on how to work it. How do you control the color? Can you layer them? I am also excited to use diverse types of

  Artist Statement: For my illustrator piece I pick climate change and taking care of the environment to be the topic of my poster. I used varying shades of the colors green, yellow, purple, brown, and pink to create my piece. My piece is a self-portrait with one side of my face being a skull and the other side having flowers in my hair . The goal was to have one side of the piece feel more hopeful and alive while the other side felt more cynical and dead.   I used a combination of ellipsis and rectangles as well as using the pen tool to create my own shapes. I heavily relied on the blend tool to create smooth transitions between the colors , especially on the face.   Reference Photo: Inspiration: