Journal Entry 4

This week I decided to present another photo for my digital art piece, and edit it via an online image editor site, just for something different. The site I chose to use for this week was called www.pixer.com, and is basically a site that allows you to upload photos and apply a whole variety of effects to it, before saving it to your hard drive.

At the moment, I've been having a lot of issues with friendships surrounding my life, so I thought an appropriate topic to focus on would be 'friendship', and how underneath it all, despite all the conflict and drama, friends will always be there for you. To portray this through the image, I wanted to somehow distort the image so that it would be difficult to see the original, but the original would still be determinable, in order to convey the love and friendship in the original image being hard to see sometimes and clouded by obstacles, but there, nonetheless.

The original image I used was one of two girls laughing and holding hands, looking at eachother, clearly a display of solid friendship and adoration for eachother. I then applied effects over the top to distort it, such as blurring, cloudiness and an oil-painting effect. I played around with some other effects to further distort the image such as changing the colour to grayscale and altering the amount of pixels in the image but this resulted in the image being too indistinguishable, and I really wanted the original image of the two girls laughing and holding hands to be seen for the digital art piece to really have the effect I was aiming for.

The site I used was really easy to navigate and use, and the outcome was actually quite satisfying in relation to what I was hoping to achieve. I could have used Adobe Photoshop, but I've already done that before and wanted to try something a little bit different this week. I found the site so much easier to use than photoshop, and I was able to apply all the effects that I wanted to use for my project, so limitations were not really an issue. I'm aware that Photoshop is much more advanced with a lot more options, but I'm happy with the end result and it is basically what I was aiming to achieve.