digital imaging / sammy luscher

   I messed with a copy of the image and the blending modes to find a soft light filter with the copied image. This is just my work that I had as I worked alongside the tutorials. I then used a mask and my selection tools to create a transparent copy of the foreground, which includes the men on the steel beam. I'm planning on using this on top of whatever overlays/blends I use with the scanogram-style part to emphasize the focus of the image maybe. I found a high res image of a galaxy pattern and applied that on top of the existing layers, messing with the blending tools. I think this image is a little dark so I plan on working with a mask and brush tool, but I think it's an interesting addition to the image. I used my transparent image I cut out earlier to put on top of the image, then messed with the blending tools to create an image with more definition in lights and darks. I'm happy with how this looks, but I'm definitely positive that it still is a copyright issue.

After watching Lecture 6, I chose my icon, which "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" by an anonymous photographer. I sized it down in a JPEG file to fit the browser.

 

  I did some experimenting with the payphone, trying to merge the two appliances together. This was one of my first takes. Here is an adapted version of the phone. I decided against the image trace and simply redrew the phone. 

  Because you cannot completely see that my object is a refrigerator, and a vintage-looking one at that, I messed with the idea of having one door open so you can see the handle and the logo, and having the bottom door closed. I traced both on a separate document and copied and pasted it to the original process AI document.  I also added in some shelves for the bottom opening.  I'm trying to decide what I need to add to the object to make it more "fantasy-like", as I will be using it as a plantholder and a shelf with books. It's going to be a sort of storage-type appliance, rather than a real fridge. But I feel like I need to incorporate it with another kind of object so that it has another kind of use. I'm not sure yet what I want that to be, so if anyone has ideas, feel free to share.