Raelyn's FMX Blog

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adobe+photoshop+tutorials&&view=detail&mid=30E9892C21B0289C841D30E9892C21B0289C841D&&FORM=VRDGAR Despite this video not having any audio this video went over a lot and I found it especially helpful for  layering and the use of effects on pictures such as blurring to give something a different look. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adobe+photoshop+tutorials&&view=detail&mid=A0A3D860DF82E46E320BA0A3D860DF82E46E320B&&FORM=VRDGAR I thought this video was really great because it explained a lot on how to merge two images together well by teaching how to decontaminate colors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFZXaRP-MA This last video was a quick and really easy to follow tutorial on double exposure which was helpful for the basics like cutting out images as well as playing with blending modes and opacity to create the final image.

I chose this picture of myself because it was a candid picture my best friend took of me and I loved the way it came out when I usually hate candid pictures. The photo was taken on a very high quality camera making each and every one of my freckles pop out. I didn't want to trace over every freckle for the sake of time and my sanity so I started playing with fun shapes to put over them. I settled on stars because my Mom actually bought me a sign for my room when I was younger that had the phrase, "A girl without freckles is like a night without stars" because I used to absolutely hate my freckles. Now I have come to love them and even make them the focal point of this poster design. The coloring of both the stars and my face represent both my colorful personality and my indecisiveness to choose one color!

For this assignment we were supposed to create a logo that resembled ourselves, and while I have many aspects of my life I could have drawn from for inspiration I decided to center this logo around my name. I get so many compliments on my name which I love but I also find quite funny because I had absolutely no choice over the matter, so in away this logo is not only about me but also about my parents who are my everything. My name being Raelyn, my family and friends always call me Rae for short but this logo was mostly inspired from my Mom calling me her Rae of sunshine. I started by putting the letter 'R' on its side and playing with the curvature of the 'R' to get the half sun, and then with the leg of the 'R' to make one of the rays. I tried to make the 'R' stick out more based on the coloring of the last logo by keeping the whole 'R' orange. When choosing a color scheme it only made sense to do an orange and yellow theme however, I m