The Clone Wars

          The strongest area of my creation to me would be the way I took something as simple as a highlighter and composed something abstract with it. I think the strongest technical aspect of this piece is my use of the brush tool. For the most part I blended everything together well enough. Now, I'm pretty good with the opacity tool, layer mask, and the brush tool. I was able to play with the opacity to line things up well. I was able to use the layer mask and the brush tool effectively enough to compose the piece and have it look interesting enough. With that in mind, I could improve on the lighting of the picture. I could also improve on my blending because I don't know if I would say that this looks realistic. So next time I could take pictures in better lighting and I could be more careful with upstaging. I could also play with the size and hardness of the brush tool. This project wasn't easy but the easiest things to do were to play with the opacity and the brush tool, and to apply the layer mask. It was easy to make the picture as opaque I needed to. The brush tool was pretty simple when it came to changing the desired size and filling in where you wanted the image to appear. The layer mask was a few step process to apply. 
          This project in general was difficult but the most difficult aspect would probably be taking the pictures and lining them up correctly. It hurt to stay still for a long time and you wanted all the pictures to be as similar as possible when it came to angling. Then, when they were off, to line them up was difficult because they were at weird angles. I used a blue highlighter as the subject of my pictures. I used an IPhone 6s Plus to take the pictures. I used the opacity tool to get a better idea of how my pictures lined up together. I used the layer mask so I would be able to put everything unto one image. I used the brush tool to draw the images onto one another to form the singular picture presented. I demonstrated the goal presented to me by using photoshop to manipulate different pictures of my subject to create one image. I gave the illusion that the subject was altogether in one picture when they were actually different pictures merged together. I used the tools suggested and completed the assignment to the best of my ability.
          If I were to do this project again I would most definitely toggle with the colors in the image. I think this would make the picture more aesthetically pleasing if I were to incorporate blues and greens in the picture. I would also be more careful with the brush tool.