Landscape Collage - Assignment #3

Artist Reflection:
              For our third assignment in graphic design class we did a landscape collage. For this we got different images off the internet and used them to put them into a landscape to look like it was all one image. The strongest technical aspect of my work was the masking tool and making the whole project look like it all goes together. The masking tool allowed this to work because I erased the background with the mask. My weakest aspect of technology and the aspect I could work on improving is the cutting with the magic wand and eraser. This could be improved by not trying to cut so exact and making it look so unnatural.

            Something I found easy and fun about this project was using the masking tool to make the project all come together. I found this easy because after I was first showed how to, it was very simple after that.  I also found this part of the project very fun and interesting to make a new environment that I created myself. Something that was difficult about this project was getting rid of the white background on the forest and making it look good and realistic. This was difficult because the white background behind the trees was behind the branches and made it look very choppy and unrealistic.

           The objective in this project was to create a unified imaginary landscape and have a fore ground, middle ground, and background. I demonstrated the objective in this project by adding the sunset to the background, putting the mountains in the middle ground, and the forest and lake in the fore ground. The fore ground, middle ground, and background all make the imaginary landscape. If I could do this project again something I would do differently would be the environment I made in this imaginary landscape. I would maybe change it to a more tropical theme if I were to do it again.