Semester Final

Grades were posted. Thanks to my abysmal math class grade I got a 3.4 something or other. This brought my total GPA down to a 3.8 even. Thankfully I had a bunch of other classes that kept my GPA afloat. Classes that, no offense to those who love math, I will actually use in my career. (Nathan says higher math exists to give jobs to mathematicians.)

So I came here today to post my Photoshop final. I had to do something outside my normal realm of skill, so here we go. I went online and found a random photo of the British natural history museum, and following the theme of my last big Photoshop Class Project I proceeded to play around with it.

Here is the original:

Note: I cannot find the source for the original. If by some odd chance you who took this picture are actually reading this, no malice is intended in the use of your image, and as a student I do have a legal right to use images for projects that are not for profit.

First thing to do was to remove everyone from the building, fix some of the digital image artifacts, and play with the color. If you look, you will notice that almost every part of the building that is obscured by someone is visible somewhere else. So it was just a matter of cutting and pasting the pertinent parts, the distorting till they line up with the underlying area.Some areas i knew would not be visible in the final image, so I did not bother fixing those spots.

The end result is right here:

Keeping with this semesters uncharacteristic post apocalyptic theme, I vented some of anger towards math onto the canvas using some alternate sources like the ones shown below:

I also found that sometimes you just have to paint in features. So I grabbed the Photoshop brush manipulation dialog and Got all Bob Ross on it. I first added some dirt, and then I painted a Happy Little Waterfall.

Then I added some happy Little Ivy and some Happy Little Plants.

Some final color manipulation, and voila:

One post apocalyptic Scene suitable for framing.