polaroid

The strongest technical aspect in this project was the use of the eraser tool, lasso tool.  I was able to make my polaroid collage look as if a random assortment of photographs fell onto a table and layered themselves.  To make the work more interactive I included several points in the picture where body parts are breaking the plane and going outside the photo.  By using the lasso tool i was able to clean up the surroundings of my picture and install.  The weakest technical aspect of my work was the background.  I tried my best to capture the essence of friendship but The overlaying images seem to disappear into the picture. 

The easiest part of this project was erasing the overlapping layers of the frame.  I like using the eraser tool because it seemed painfully easy how I could chose which photograph I wanted to come to the front and which one would be tucked behind. I liked being able to decide how my pictures looked. The hardest part of the project was dealing with the frustration of my image pixelating.  I had to restart my picture three times before I figured out how to shut the eyes off and replace my picture when it ruined itself.

The objective of the project was to have the photos to appear as if they are both popping out of the 2D realm and lie scattered on a table.  I completed this objective by randomly placing the polaroids on the original image.  To clean up the frames I used the eraser tool to make it seem as if it was layered over each other.  If I could change anything in this project I would select a picture off the internet so my pictures wouldn't pixelate so much.