Pen Tool Exercise

Polaroid Project

    My Polaroid project was based off of this picture of my dog Cole.  I would have to say that the strongest portion of my piece would be the collage of Polaroid pictures itself, the shadow effect coming from underneath the photos and the placement of them gives it a realistic look to it.  However, I could improve on the dog prints and lettering, the prints look too animated for my liking so changing them to make them look more like water color portraits instead of a stamp would be cool in my eyes.

    The tools I used were the move, free transform, crop, eraser, and the curves tools. Obviously the move and free transform tools were used to place the images and back-ground into the right positions for the best possible look. I used the eraser and crop to help mold the Polaroid pictures into the right frames and order for one on top of the other.  The curves was used to brighten the image and give it a more vibrant look. 

    The easiest part of this activity was positioning and placing. Once all the images were the right color contrast and size, it was really easy just to smack it all together. The hardest part was creating the pile of Polaroids. The only reason being that is was time consuming to crop and erase each section and figure out which picture was on top of what.

    I was able to create a good looking "pile" of Polaroid pictures the look realistic as if i took them each separately and threw them on the counter. I also gave a cool looking back-ground and quote which brings the project together. If I were to do this again I would only change the back-ground picture making it look more like a table or bed instead of a color explosion. My effort was about an 8/10, I could have given a little more effort into the background and paw prints.