Week Five- Sticks and Stones

     I've been dreading this post. I'm embarrassed by the quality of the image as a piece, but I certainly know I tried. Here is the image. When it's really small, like so, you can't see the green distortion found near the windows, but I suppose the "H" is fairly apparent.

     That being said, the debbie-downer introduction and lack of satisfaction with the image, certainly doesn't diminish the process. I enjoyed working with Photoshop, despite being tedious at times. My current Photoshop skills are basic, but I'm excited to learn and refine new techniques to visually create a message. I feel my limited skills limit my imagination even. 

     This limitation can be seen in the process of this picture (which I don't believe will make the Photoshop project cut). At first, my grandest idea was to take a picture of something resembling a letter in nature. This idea developed to taking an abstract letter image and accentuating it through the use of Photoshop. That's what you find here, but what I had tried to learn to do through Youtube tutorials is bring in the color from a mask of the same image, so that the saturation of the photos would be entirely natural, while still using the Black and White filter. Now, the projected images for my Photoshop project, after learning enhanced skills, will be both aesthetically pleasing AND have merit. 

     I'm excited to see my ideas actualize. I think this photo demonstrates a powerful lesson from multimedia- the extent to which you master the tools enables you to control the end result. That's a bit wordy for my liking, but I think the message is there. When you're just beginning to learn to draw, all you see is stick figures.