For the first one I cut up magazines into little pieces and glued it on. I thought this was more fun than the other one. I also thought it was frustrating cutting all those little pieces and then glueing them on. I stil think it looks good.
          It took me about one hour to get this one finished. At first I thought I couldn't do it and it would look really bad. But in the end I like it and it looks like a pretty good mosaic. I like it!

This one was really really really frustrating. I had to melt a bunch of crayons just for the background! After I melted the crayons it stuck to the pan and I had to scrape and scrape and scrape to get it off!! After that incident I decided to do a different method. I shaved crayons using a cheese grader!
          This was weird because it kept coming off and not working. It took a really long time for me to do it. I had to have steady hands to get the colors into the specific spot. It was really hard and frustrating but I did it and it kind of looks like Kalin!!

My attempt for picture 02: To cut up little pieces of paper and glue onto paper.

process: cut up pieces of paper into little pieces and glue them onto the right places with color.

My attempt for picture 01: To paint with melted crayons

process: put all colors into color groups according to the picture. Take off all wrappers. Melt crayons in a double boiler. paint with paintbrush.

Here are my 10 pictures!

1. The 2012 Kony video is about what Joseph Kony has done and how we need to do something to stop him. The man who did the video is talking to you about how you can help stop him and he explains to you what Joseph Kony has done. Joseph Kony has done bad things to children in Africa and is trying to get the government to help him stop Joseph Kony.
2. The film maker made this film to let people know who Joseph Kony is and what he has done. He hopes to get everybody together and put up posters all over and buy kits so that he can raise money for the program. His goal is to get everybody, all around the world, to know what Joseph Kony has done and to get the government to help them stop him.
3. I think that the way he is setting awareness is working okay. I think that maybe he could do something different and try to get on Tv or something like that. I think that is has gotten a little bit boring to see all of the same posts on facebook already. I think that the video is really important actually. That is what set off this whole Joseph Kony thing. The video. I don’t know what I would do different cause I don’t even know if I could do something like this.
4. I don’t think that this is a bad idea. I think that we need to make Joseph Kony a celebrity so everybody knows of him. We need everybody in the world to know of Joseph Kony so that everybody can help stop him. I don’t think that their are negatives about this idea.
5. I think that raising awareness is just letting everybody know that someone is going to stop something and that they need a little bit of support. I think that a call to action is more of “we need you to come and help us out!”

6. I feel strongly about getting homeless people off the streets and into a shelter of some sort, especially in Portland. I think that everyone in Portland are effected because you see them on the streets every time that you drive a car or walk or bike around. I think that you can do something about this. I don’t think that you should just give them some money or a home. We need them to work for it. If we just give them a home they will think that they don’t need to do anything they can just get a home for doing nothing. I think that people could help them get a job, and after they have had a job and have some money, and is not spending it in cigarettes or anything, you could help them get into a homeless shelter or a home. We could get attention by wearing stuff on t-shirts maybe. We could have a parade. We could just get a bunch of people together and stand on the streets with posters and stuff.

Hi my name is Ellie and I’m going to talk to you about how I see god in 2 different categories, Emotions and Community.

First I want to talk about Emotions. I believe that we can portray a lot with our emotions. I look at emotions like painting pictures. For example there might be one big picture that is all red or black with splatters of paint showing anger or whatever. We can get out so many things with our emotions. Sometimes it might not be helpful but I think that it is really important to get your emotions out and kind of share it with somebody and not hold it in. Also, I think that god will comfort your when your down, sad or frustrated or any emotion. I think that he will be their and will always understand you and what is going on in your mind.

Now I’m going to talk about community. I think that community is really important, no matter if it is your family, neighbors, friends or your church community. God will show his love for you through your community and you can show his love to others if they are non-believers or believers by serving, and just giving them someone to lean on in their community. I think that there will always be a situation where you or somebody else will need someone to talk to in community. I think God made community so that you can always talk to someone or have someone to lean on to regain your balance.

Thank you for listening!

Tools palette customization: This tool arranges your favorite tools into one easy section to get to. It's so easily organized and easy to get to.

Burn tool: The burn tool is used for naturally darkening a certain part of the image. It gives the darker, more mellow feeling.

Sponge tool: The sponge tool takes away any part of the image that you don't want. You could also add color or add stuff.

Clone stamp tool: It duplicates any part of the image or enhances a part. It also retouches parts of the image.

Versions: This tool is to skim through different versions of each image. You could do different edits on each image and then look at them through the timeline.

Full screen: So you can work with no distractions in a big screen. You could have every application in full screen and switch through them.

Auto Save: This tool automatically saves your work. It will save everything that you have done so you don't have to manually save the document. And so you don't loose everything you've done.

Getting pixelmator: You can edit your pictures with pixelmator. This is useful because you can edit any picture you want and do anything you want with it.

Dodge tool: to naturally lighten certain parts of the image. You can brighten darker parts and even brighten already bright parts of the image.

Smudge tool: To smeer paint, skin tones or whatever. You can make special effects with it, distortion and taking out hard edges to a subject.

Healing Tool: Touch up blemishes and wrinkles. You can also just get rid of a part of the image.

Eyedropper Tool: The eyedropper tool takes colors from the image. You can use that color whenever you want now.

Red Eye Tool: This tool easily gets rid of the red eye. Makes the image look more natural.

Layer Groups: Organizing a very busy image. You can group them into different categories or whatever order you want.

Cropping: To get rid of certain parts of the image. It easily focuses your attention to whatever part you crop.

Exporting images: This tool exports images to different formats for different uses. You can export the image to documents to use somewhere else.

Opening images: This may be helpful to edit your images. There are many different ways to open a picture so you can use whichever one is more convenient.

Polygonal lasso tool: This tool selects a part and adds effects. You can select the object or a part of the image and remove it or cut a certain part out.

Magic wand tool: This tool selects parts of your image. You can add special effects or take it out.

Marquee Tool: This tool selects parts of your image in a rectangular shape, elliptical or column Shape. You can edit the part you selected afterwards.

Lasso Tool: Allows you to draw the part you want to select yourself. Then allows you to edit that specific part.

Gradient tool: This allows you to fill the image with colors. You could do it on multiple layers and you can have multiple colors.

Unwanted Background: You can remove parts of the background that you do not want. It's helpful if there is a part of the image that is not desirable.

response from the article: I do agree with the article completely! After I saw the examples of the stuff he was talking about, I did agree. I thought that I did blur the face a little bit too much. I think I could have made the picture look a little bit warmer and not so much cold. I definitely thought that I shouldn't have changed the post. Now that I look at it, it looks funky.

Before

After

I learned how to use a mask. And also how to delete parts of it and putting it on any part of the image you want. I also learned that you could remove pimples, any type of ring or anything on the image you don't want. I learned how to make the skin on a person look all the same and kind of soft-ish. I thought that was really cool.

I also learned how to use curves. I thought that was really cool because I never knew how to do that. I think that it is really important most of the times too.

Image 4) I intended this image to be a shadow image. I at first didn't think it was good because it's shadow wasn't dark enough. Also it didn't look nice enough. I made some edits and made it better. I think It looks good.















Image 3) This image is a serious picture. I aimed for something kind of sad and not really smily or cheery stuff. I wish I would have made it a little bit darker. I think it turned out really good.
















Image 2) This image is supposed to be a close up. I imagined it closer but I didn't because it didn't look good. I think it turned out a okay. I wish I would have taken it closer. I think its pretty.












Image 1) I wanted to to use backlighting for this picture. It turned out pretty well. I think the brightness is a little bit too bright. Although I did brighten her face to help it but it didn't turn out the way I thought it would. I had originally planned it to have the sunlight go through her hair on the right side and kind of shine on her face.

What I learned: I learned that You could have a couple different textures to a picture and It would still look good. You can match up the texture of the subject and the background. If you over-expose the picture it makes the image look smooth and relaxed. If you under-expose the image looks serious and draws attention to the light part.

I also learned, You could pose really crazy and have the picture still look good. I think it would be really fun to go out and take pictures of the culture around me! I really think the shadows look cool. I think the shadow is even more eye-catching than the actual subject is sometimes. I thought that the movement picture was really cool. Even if you can't see the subject very well, it still looks really cool. I really like the serious pictures. I learned that you don't always have to have something cheery in you photo.

What I learned: I learned how to make the image smaller using preview. It really helped because the image was way too big to be put in pixelmator. I learned different editing tools on pixelmator and Iphoto. Mostly on Iphoto. I learned to change the contrast, Saturation, highlights and shadows! It was really fun. I also learned what a vignette was. It's a shadow around the edges.