PSA!

STOP SMOKING!
Though many people have started to quit smoking, one in five deaths in America are still attributed to smoking related illness. Lung cancer is the leading cause of death for men and women. Research shows that children who live with smokers have a twenty four percent increase in risk of developing lung cancer. SMOKING DOESN’T JUST HURT YOU. Second hand smoke is a serious danger to children, family, and friends. An estimated 3,000 lung cancer deaths occur each year due to second-hand smoke. If you do not want to put your loved ones as risk, STOP SMOKING. Secondhand smoke is not only a cause of lung cancer, but also increases the risk of stroke and heart disease. Make a decision NOW. What would you do if you saw your child smoking in the future? Children who live in a household where the parent(s) smoke(s) are more than  twice likely to start smoking in their teens. BE A REBEL AND GO AGAINST THE CROWD.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

• Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)
• Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)
• Father worked in a coal mine
• In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”
• Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)
• Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator
• Designed advertisements for women’s shoes
• Used Polaroid camera
• Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac
• Favorite print making technique was silk screening
• Friends & family described him as a workaholic
• His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”
• First solo expedition in 1952
• Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”
• 1960s: iconic American products (pop art)
• Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968
• Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career
• Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)
• 1965 said he was retiring from painting
• 1972 returned to painting
• Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)
• Produced Velvet Underground’s first album
• Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue
• Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)
• Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document
• "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."
• Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)
• Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver
• Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person
• Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication
• $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)
• Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Copy&Paste

This image was created by using the copy and paste method. First, I chose two images and duplicated the background layer of the image i wanted to cut out and made sure they were both the same size. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the people and the cement floor then pasted it onto another layer on the second image. Next, I adjusted the size of the cut out image to my liking and blurred the edged to make the edges smoother. 

BLENDED image

These images were created by using the blending method in photoshop. First, I selected the two images I wanted to blend together and chose which one would be the main image. Next, I made sure both of the images were the same size. I then duplicated the background layer of the chosen main image and added it to the other image.

Threshold

To create this image, I used the threshold adjustment in photoshop. First, I selected an image and duplicated the background layer. I then went to image -> adjustments -> threshold and selected the amount of black i wanted to show in the image. I then changed the tolerance to 0 and unchecked the contiguous box, which eliminated all of the shades of white throughout the frame. I then selected a color to replace the white space. 

Photoshop

This semester, we have learned many different Photoshop techniques. We learned how to do fisheye, blend two images together, copy and paste a portion of one picture to another, use the threshold method, and more. The purpose of this assignment was to apply at least three of the new Photoshop techniques we have learned in a final photo shopped image. In this photo, I used the threshold, blending, and contrast effects. I first started by increasing the contrast in the image to get the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. Second, I applied the threshold technique to the image which changes the image to complete black and white. To do this I first had to select the portion of the image I wanted to manipulate using the magnetic lasso tool. Once that was selected, I created another layer via copy so that only the selected portion of the image would be in the new layer and made twelve copies. Starting with layer twelve, I applied the threshold effect and used the magic wand tool to erase all the white spaces, making sure the tolerance was set to zero and the contiguous box was unchecked. This allowed everything that was not black to be deleted throughout the image. Then, I CTRL + clicked the thumbnail on the layer so that only the black parts would be selected and pressed CTRL + backspace to change the black to a color of my choice. I repeated these steps throughout all the layers, adding more black and lighter shades of blue as I went down the layers. Lastly, I merged all the layers together after saving the image as. Next, I duplicated the image and added it to another image to blend them together.

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