Polaroid Project

The strongest part of my visual piece is definitely the hearts with the wings on them. They put a lot of emphasis on the quote and allow the viewer to see how important the people in the picture are. They represent a strong message of love and faith, cherishing those high up above. I think I could use some improvement on piecing the polaroids together because I missed a spot. I could pay more time and attention to each and every corner of the polaroids to make sure they are pieced together just right. Tools I used for this were the Polygonal Lasso tool, selection tool, eraser, text tool, gradient tool, and the quick selection tool. I used the Polygonal Lasso tool to select and delete the extra unwanted polaroid edges to make them look realistic. I used the selection tool to move things around to where I wanted them to be. The eraser was used to erase excess white edges and the rest of the picture that didn't fit within the polaroids. With the text tool I was able to write in a quote and warp it to a curved sort of shape. The gradient tool was used to create the different shades of blue in the background, and the quick selection tool was used to select the heart with wings to move it from the scanned in picture onto the actual project.
The easy thing about this art activity was coming up with the idea of what I wanted to capture. I immediately thought of doing a memorial type project and it just all came to me at once. The difficult thing about this project was trying to figure out what color scheme I wanted to do because I wanted it to match with the picture, but I didn't want it to blend together. Also, I wanted the colors to represent the feelings the picture was presenting. I demonstrated each of the goals in this project by being able to create a sentimental piece that was in remembrance of lost loved ones, while being able to allow the viewer to be able to see how meaningful it was meant to be and allowing the color scheme to flow with the purpose.
If I could do this assignment again, I would take things a bit slower so I could make sure that everything was absolutely perfect and there were no left over excess white edges. On a scale from 1-10, I believe I would rate my effort as a 9 because I truly invested myself and my feelings into this project. However, I realized I missed a spot after it was too late, so I could've paid more attention.