Media Arts and Technology

For my final project, I tried to stay away from my attachment to image content, and use elements such as time, noise, and transformations to emphasize certain aspects of the project. I wanted to use the tools that we have learned throughout the course to distort, emphasize, and place certain importa...

Original Image

Steps:
Automate
Merge to HDR Pro
Curves
Channel Mixer BW Infrared

For this image, I used index color set to 3, reduced my image size to 50%, then increased it to 200% using nearest neighbor to keep the same effect from the pixels.
Then, I applied the same rules to this image.

butterflies1.png butterflies.png butterflies301.png I used Hue/Saturation a lot and sharpened the image in order to bring out the greens and make the colors more vibrant. I'm not happy with the amount of noise that is in the "corrected" image, but I like the fact that the color of the leaves and bu...

102i.png 102h.png 102g.png 102e.png I merged together 12 images to create different effects from layering. To achieve different looks I used the Curves tool as well as playing with Hue, Saturation, Color balance, and even adding Black and White Layers. My rules that I set for myself were to take im...