I chose to create a magazine page and apply a photo montage with a quote. The photos are a kid on skateboard, skater in the middle of a trick, and some longboards. I photo shopped the 3 top pictures onto one file first to edit it and then embedded it onto the right side of the magazine. This idea fits perfect because I imagined I was creating a page for a skateboarding magazine such as Thrasher or TransWorld that sends a message. Small messages that the pictures send. For example, I chose the kid because when I was the same age I looked up too older skaters and learned a lot from it. When you skate, I guarantee you’re going to fall, but you still got to get back up on your feet and keep grinding. That is how I interpreted it and tried to send a message as, but from different perspectives people will see it differently as I did.
When I was creating this image, I took into consideration the color importance of the photo. The first time I saw the picture with the young kid standing with his board made think about the pictures I had as a kid with my skateboard. Immediately I knew I wanted to incorporate a filter that give the photo same age. Each image had its own sort of portrait and the colors were analogous Also, with the longboard photo I wanted to add some saturation to make it look sort of vintage and blend with the wood vibe from the boards. There wasn’t too much organizing when I was choosing different colors to add in because when I think of skateboarding, I think about randomness and being spontaneous, but I think the colors fit well.
I found the pictures on the Flickr and used creative commons licensing’s. Photoshop was easier to use now having a bit of experience. The main tools I used to help cut out, paste, and edit the different parts were the lasso tool (all of them) and style forms to edit the pictures. The hardest part of all it was cutting the little character out at the bottom of the original magazine picture and resizing it to fit with the top three photos onto a new file. Luckily, I had the Lasso tool but routing was another challenge I faced. I figured out I could use the blur tool a bit to help avoid the extra pixilation. Overall, the beginning of the project was a challenge but as I continued to work, I got a lot better and familiarized myself with photoshop and I think it went well from there. I tried to give each photo a different feeling and emotion based on what I felt about it, and I added the quote to visually send a message. I enjoyed creating this piece and expressing my thoughts visually.
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Gonzalo Guerrero (Com 210) 