You Are What You Eat Project

Investigate
The first thing I did after being assigned this project and reading the directions was begin to take note of every meal I ate, and the kinds of foods that those meals consisted of. I was absent the class period following the one when I had my project, so I had quite a selection of foods to choose from by the time I actually began. Another thing I did was look at examples of other food-face-collages. I payed attention to the ways in which the creators of each collage selected certain foods, and transformed others.

Plan
When I entered the planning phase of my project, I selected which foods I would use for the project, and which ones would be discarded. In my head, I arranged certain foods over my face to see which ones worked the best. I also looked at a few pages giving advice and information regarding the use of the transform tool. I also considered taking a pose to mix up the photo I would cover up with food, but thought against it. In the end, I finalized my ''pose" and list of foods to use.

Create
I finally began creating the project. I began by taking the picture. Instead of cropping out the background, I simply decided to fill the background with cheerios, a food from my list. I made my head out of an orange that I had shaped with the Warp tool. Bit by bit, I covered over my features from the actual picture with food items. I had trouble warping the body and neck, since they were larger and more complex pictures than any other. Interestingly, during the project I noticed that there was a bit less I could do to each shape than I could in Illustrator.

Evaluate
Looking back, I am for the most part satisfied with the outcome of my food collage. In my opinion, it is quite easy to discern my face from among all of the different food items. The items used also tell the story of my diet throughout the last weeks. The site that I looked at regarding the use of the transform tool ended up being useful, although I mainly just used the warp tool. In fact, all of the tutorials put up by the teacher taught me the basics of Photoshop, and built up my knowledge to eventually allow this project to work. The steps of the design cycle were helpful in completing this project in a smart way.

Final Product

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RGB and CMYK Color Models

A color model is a wheel of sorts that shows the values and hex codes for each of the RGB and CMYK colors. Here is the RGB model:

And here is the CMYK Model:
















Note that Red in RGB and Cyan in CMYK were already done by the teacher, and have funny values because the teacher used Photoshop, not an online calculator.

RGB and CMYK

When it comes to images, there are two kinds of color used in most programs. These are known as RGB, and CMYK. I did not have to go too far down the list of resources on the teacher's blog to understand the meaning and differences of each color type.

RGB
RGB color stands for red, green, and blue. By using any combination of varying amounts of each of these three colors, you can literally make millions of different shades of color. RGB is known as additive. This means that the more color you add, the lighter the shade will be. Pure red, green or blue will always be the darkest shade you can get. As you blend all together, you eventually get the color white. RGB is often used for online images, since it's simpler than CMYK.


CMYK
CMYK color stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Unlike RGB, which uses values between 0 to 255 for each color, CMYK uses percentages from 0 to 100 for each color. By combining different percentages of cyan, magenta, and yellow, you can make vast amounts of different color. Further unlike RGB, CMYK is known as subtractive. This means that the more color of each type you add, the darker the image will get. With 100% of each color, you will get true black. For this reason, CMYK is the preferred color type for printing, and people often convert their work from RGB to CMYK if they weren't already doing so before printing their work.

Personally, I don't favor either color type over the other. Both have their advantages. RGB looks better in my opinion, and I prefer its 0-255 system over that of CMYK's, but the latter is more favorable when it comes to printing, so it is better in that sense.

Free Photoshop Tutorial

The teacher's blog said I needed to go out and find a simple Photoshop tutorial out on the internet. I googled it, and found an interesting and useful looking tutorial on how to replace colors in an image. I went from this:

To this:



Bibliography:

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-Kratochvil, Petr. "Christmas Illustration Of A Christmas Tree With A Red Background And Stars | # 5679 | Freestockphotos.biz." Free Stock Photos. GSE-Media. Web. 16 Nov. 2011. <http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/5679>.

Andy Warhol Style Human

Here is an Andy Warhol Mosaic Style Photoshop image of a random person.

Andy Warhol Style Kittens

Following a teacher tutorial, I created a mosaic-style image with the same kitten under different filters arranged in a square 9 times.

Original image from : Burrfoot, Tasselhoff. "A Cute Orange Kitten Isolated On A White Background | # 9343 | Freestockphotos.biz." Free Stock Photos. GSE-Media. Web. 14 Nov. 2011. <http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/9343>

Another Similiar Tutorial

In this image, I simply follow the same directions I did with last photo, but this time with a distorted image of myself.