From this project, I have learned how hard it is to capture my life in pictures. You can not capture the jokes and personality of the people in my life. I also learned how to apply all the tools in
photoshop to my pictures.In one of my pictures I applied the element of simplicity. The lockers is a simple and clean picture. To most of pictures I cropped them to show you the main point of the picture. In the pictures that my friends are smiling, I used a tool to enhance the whiteness of their teeth. To whiten the teeth you need to lasso around the teeth than change the hue of the teeth to white. On the picture of the stairs, I needed to rotate it, so I used what I had learned from a fellow student. On the close-ups of peoples faces, I used a tool to erase the blemishes on their faces. This tool was the most handy to use.
The last tool I used was to fix the glare on my friends sunglasses. I had to cut out and copy one side of the sunglasses to put over the other. I then had to blend it all in so that it looked normal. To finish the collage, I used the layer tools to cut and copy pictures to one page. Photoshop was very helpful in the making of my collage.
The first picture of me is before photoshop and the picture under the before is my after photoshop. I demonstrated how you can take an ordinary person and change them into a celebrity. In this case I changed myself into Katy Perry. I felt like I did a good job changing myself into her without looking too fake, but then it is only as good as photoshop can make me. Now knowing that anyone can be changed into anyone else, its scary. Celebrities can be airbrushed and look perfect, it gives us a false image of these people. I really did well on blending the skin, even though her face is lighter than her neck. It was hard to get it just right but after a while I got a hang of things. This gives a false picture of what beauty really is, young girls look at this and don't feel beautiful. They instead feel the need to be perfect. I feel the picture needs more improvement on getting my face to look like it belongs on Katy Perry's body. To me I look so fake and need to have my face looking airbrushed and beautiful. I can also work on making my eyes look bigger, because katys' are naturally big and mine are way too small. 
