Period 1 - Reflection Journal #3

Reflection Journal on your blog or written in word doc - Due Thursday, Nov 29th (3 paragraphs): 1) Briefly explain what your task was. 2) Describe what the following tools do: the magic eraser tool, the blur tool, the dodge tool, the burn tool, the sponge tool, paint bucket tool and gradient tool. 3) What other projects can you think these tools could have helped you with? 4)Which tool did you find the best fit for you?

1) My task was to utilize the tools: magic eraser tool, blur tool, dodge tool, burn tool, sponge tool, paint bucket tool, and gradient tool. The teacher assigned five pictures for me to edit according to the directions I'm given. Some of the pictures require a specific tool while the others require more than one. For example, pic D needed to be edited using the sponge tool.

2)The magic eraser cuts out a specific color completely out of a picture until it touches another color. The blur tool is used to, hence, blur the image by letting you drag the pointer to areas you want to blur. It's mostly used to help focus on a specific part of an image. The dodge tool helps the image to have a lighter color. It does not change the color of the image, but to lighten the shade. The burn tool is the opposite, as it helps by darkening the colors of the image, again not changing the original color but the shade. The sponge tool "soaks in" the color of an image. It basically desaturates the picture so that the color that is being desaturated is turning into black and white. The paint bucket tool obviously paints a color that you selected onto one body of color until it is in contact with another color. Lastly, the gradient tool creates a color that is generated by blending two colors using blending options.

3)The burn tool would've definitely helped me with the project of putting myself on an image with three layers because the image I picked was very dark and I was too bright to blend in with the image. The project that involved picking an image then desaturating the background of part of the image that you focused on probably would've been easier by using the magic eraser tool, unless I already did use the tool in the project. But the tool that best fit me would be the sponge tool because desaturating is easy for me, unlike the gradient tool. The sponge tool can also help focus on parts of an image just by making the parts of the image I'm focusing on have all the color.

Mr. Vanderputten's Class, Period 1 - Reflection

Project #2A Reflection

Reflection Journal on your blog or written in word doc - Due Wednesday, Nov 21st (3 paragraphs): 1) Briefly explain what your task was. 2) Describe what the following tools do: the Clone Stamp tool, the Healing Brush tool, the Patch tool and the Spot Healing Brush tool. 3) What other projects can you think these tools could have helped you with? 4) Which tool did you find the best fit for you?

1) Project 2A consisted of editing images with the use of the tools: Clone Stamp tool, Healing Brush tool, Patch tool, and the Spot Healing Brush tool. The task was to eliminate the blemishes or spots that were required to be removed and to try to make your changes as obscure as you can. We were given four different photos that need to be edited. 

2) The Clone Stamp tool allows you to select a reference of what you're going to stamp with, then be able to paint it on a different location. It is useful when you want to paint in a spot that is next to a big field of the same color and pattern. The Healing Brush tool blends the area you're painting and the area around it. It helps when the image is naturally a bit blurry. The Patch tool is almost like the Clone Stamp tool except it allows you to make a selection and copies it to another location that you choose. Lastly, the Spot Healing Brush tool allows you to retouch images. You can eliminate small blemishes by smoothing the area.

3) The project of putting myself in an image with three layers probably would've been more precise if I used the Spot Healing Brush tool to smooth my figure as close as I can get to the quality of the image I used. But the tool that I would like to use more and helps me most in my opinion would be the Clone Stamp tool because it allows you to create a pattern or just color an area with a reference in the image.