Artist Reflection for Project 1

     With the picture of the bee, the strongest technical aspect would be the bottom the left flower. it started out as a plain yellow flower and through the use of a couple layers, it was transformed into a light purple flower. This flower stands out by being the most natural fitting adjustment to the picture, with similar colors already exhibited originally. Would I could have improved in my work would have been to choose better colors for the bee's abdomen to seem more natrual like an exotic species. had better shades been chosen, and opacity experimented with, it could be more believable.

     Several aspects of this project was easy, like filling in the color of choice on my target. Changing the degrees of opacity was simple and took little time to fidget with. Lastly it was easy to add a layer, the click of a button and it couldn't be easier. It was much more difficult to think of what I had wanted to edit, so I started with the flowers, because it was an easy place to start. this was also my first time using a Mac computer, and photoshop, so understanding what the layout was was a challenge in itself. It shouldn't be left out to say that editing the bee itself was not full of options to edit to a novice such as myself.

     The object was to simply edit the picture through the use of the paint tool, and I had done little work that was not with the paintbrush tool. If I could redo this I would have fun with making more colors in the flowers. It would also be fun to practice with other photos, most likely with more wildlife because nature has many beautiful shapes already, and to change those colors would make for interesting results in the very least. With different photos, I should try to to photos that have more objects in it that I can dabble with, and simpler pictures with fewer to edit.

(The Altered)

(The Original)