Polar Panoramas

Here are my Steps to a Polar Panorama. I took 10 or more vertical photographs going from left to right while overlapping each other by about 25% at a unique location. Using Adobe Camera Raw, I edited my pictures. Using "photomerge" on Photoshop, I created a panorama. Next, I distorted the picture so it was a square and rotated it 180 degrees. Then, I used the filter "polar coordinates" to create the polar panorama.

These are the steps I took to create the cut out of myself and the shadow using the Quick Selection Tool. First, I opened the picture I wanted to use in Photoshop and created a copy of the layer. Next, I used the Quick Selection Tool (w) and select the parts of the photo I wanted to use (minus tool to deslect parts you don't want). Then, I smooth and feathered the cutout and copied and pasted it onto my polar panorama. Finally, I copied the cutout and turned the exposure down so it was black, turned the opacity down and skewed the "shadow" so it looked more realistic.

Spherical Panoramas

 These are my two of my spherical panoramas. To create them, I used a camera to take 10- 15 vertically oriented pictures going from left to right, while getting about 10%- 15% overlap, in a complete circle. Next, I used Adobe Camera Raw to edit and enhance my photos. Using Photoshop's Photomerge function, the images were stacked into a panorama. Then, I compressed the panorama into a square and used the filtered the image to the polar coordinate setting. Finally, I used a circular marquee tool to select my spherical panorama, feathered the edges, and applied a black or white background to it.

All About Me

Hi! I am Jaycee. This is what you need to know about me...

I am an 8th grader attending Kapa'a Middle School. I was born on July 15, 2000. My favorite classes are art and GT. I have two siblings, a brother and a sister,  and a cat named Cuppie (short for Cupcake) (check this out!). Overall, I am pretty boring; I have been doing ballet with Kaua'i Dance Center for about seven years, and playing piano (even though I don't enjoy it) for about 3 years.

Music makes me happy and I listen to a lot of it. Since I dance, I get to hear a variety of music. I really love One Direction, 5SOS, and Justin Bieber. I am going to a One Direction concert with Zoey in September! I am very excited. My favorite albums are Midnight Memories, +, Journals and Believe. 

One of my dreams is to travel all over the world. Places I would really want to go include Venice, London, and Paris. Some of my favorite cities are San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, and Boston. I really want to go to a college in San Francisco when I am older. 

Final Photomontages

Here are my two finished Photomontages that were inspired by the photographer David Hockney. Hockney created his "joiners" by arranging polaroids in a grid. I used a digital camera to take pictures of a location or subject that I liked. My subjects were a patterned curtain at a yoga studio and a few pairs of pointe shoes. Next, I batch- edited them in Adobe Camera Raw to edit and arranged them in Photoshop. Finally, I made a border around them to make it seem like an actual polaroid photographs. 

Magazine Cover

This is my finished magazine cover that I created in the fall of 2013 at Kapa'a Middle School. We had a little photo session in class where we got into pairs and were given a digital camera and told to take pictures of each other. Next, chose the picture that we wanted to be the cover of our magazine. A lot of planning was involved in this process; we made a practice magazine cover in our digital sketchbook that included a color scheme, title, and headlines. We even used a Color Scheme Designer to plan out our analogous color scheme. 

Then, we used the brush tool on photoshop to trace our picture and color the contour in. To make our headlines stand out, we learned how to make text boxes and how to apply effects onto them. We made our magazine seem even more realistic by adding characteristics of a real magazine like barcodes, prices, dates, and editions.