Home Page Navigation System Final Project

I am excited to build this amazing photography website.  I can finally show and share my work.  Thank you for this Digital Art & Design Class.

I choose my best friend in the entire world.  This is my boyfriend when he was a child.  And I retouched the photo and restored as much as I was able to.   

Revise of M5 CP Avatar or Photo Retouching

I revised and choose a better photo.  Here is me before any touches.  And here is me as an avatar.

M5 CP Avator or Photo Retouching

Here is my before and after photo.  The photo is of my best who is more like a sister.  I tried to save in psd. format and it did or will not allow me to upload to the blog.  I did compress it.  Here are the steps I did to do the avatar way.  I used layer, twice.  Also, I used hue/saturation, redder and pigmentation.  It shows in the photo we are more redskin completion which made it more fun.  I also used channels and colors.  I guess you see I love colors and how you can change or person look and have so much fun with it.

M5 CP-Avatar or Photo Retouching (Part I)

I choose this photo for many reasons.  This is one of my best friends who is like a sister to me than anything else.  There is a lot of details that I will attempt to use the avatar effects and the techniques.  Let us see how this goes!

M4 -CP Book Cover Design (Part I)

I read this book in 2007 when it came it.  It was written by Trisha R. Thomas an African-American woman.  It is currently on Netflix which the actress Sanaa Lathan plays.
 The book is about a women name Venus Johnson, she has a great job, a live-in boyfriend who is a doctor.  But instead, she is living a major lie.  She never lets her man see her in her natural way.  Her hair is always press and curls to the point he does not see any flaws in her. 
Until one day it breaks down.  He comes home one day and she thinks he is going to pop the question of marriage.  Instead, he brings home a puppy.  She accepts it.  And later that night she screams, and she gets a razor and cuts all of her hair off.  That morning she kicks him out.
She decides to live her life more freely and she becomes much happier than ever.

https://www.amazon.com/Nappily-Ever-After-Trisha-Thomas/dp/0609808982

The Black Women Hair - Book Cover Design

I choose this book for a very particular reason.  I read this book and how the character Venus Johnsons trying to blend into American "corporate America".  Every little black girl mother made sure her hair was press and comb looking great so hair is straight and not showing the real texture of the hair.

It shows the relationship she is having with her hair.  Day in day night.  It's even impossible for her to keep the lies her keep her appearance with her boyfriend who she is living with.

And then finally she decides to break the cord.  Where she cuts off all her hair, of course, her mother is upset but she decides she needed to stop lying to herself and accept her hair and stop having the relationship with the hair.

I took this cover and I used the "The Role of Sketching in the Design Process."  I did you the adobe photoshop CS.  I used and the following filters which were exposed, saturated, cropping curves, hues and photo filters.  I was able to enhance the coloring of the book cover. I was trying to do laying but it was not working for me to use two types of the book cover.