marquee tool

The strongest technical aspect of this project for me were the marquee tool and the opacity.  In order to create 11+ different layers of rectangle shapes I needed to sort my squares into a radial symmetrical pattern and adjust the opacities. The marquee tool was fairly easy to use.  All you have to do is click and drag to your desired size and shape until you have a variance of rectangles.  The weakest technical aspect of my work was the lack of elliptical tool.  My computer didn't allow me to use the tool without creating a gradient color so I ignored the tool.

The easiest part of the project was duplicating the layers and putting my work into groups.  The skill set is actually very simple all you have to do is go under layers and click duplicate over the selected layer.  Once you have created the initial patter with that select shape and color and duplicated it, it is important to group your layers.  Once you group your layers you an adjust the position and opacity of them all together. The hardest part of this assignment was making sure the shapes were all symmetrical.  Even if I am just duplicating the layers my shapes alignment takes a lot of time to line up accurately.

The objective of the assignment was to learn how to use the marquee tool.  I accomplished this objective by learned how to use each type, rectangular and elliptical.  Although I didn't use the elliptical shape because the gradient coloring I still learned how to incorporate it into my assignment if I so desired. If there was anything I would change about my assignment was maybe I would make the design a different color scheme.  I typically gravitate towards the cool color pattern.  Next time I will use a warm pallet.