Tools and application and I how I use them The tools and applications I used for this task were non-traditional tools and a non-traditional canvas, for this experiment I used this digital application called "adobe photoshop" which is a used to design anything that you like digitally on the computer. It has hundreds of tools to use and has an easy ui interface that you can access each on every tools that you can use. This is very handy nowadays because you don't need to physically buy and get these tools yet when you have adobe photoshop, all of these tools are free to use. As long as you pay the adobe package product that is. The non-traditional tools I used was just using the rectangle selection tool (which was to select each different areas onto the face, for this tool I only used it on the facial features such as the eyes, nose and mouth), the layer tool (which was to organise things easily, the move tool (which was to move the selected area of my face while I used the rectangle selection tool, and the rectangular tool (which was to create a shape.) How I achieved and created this task
When I opened up all the bits I needed, I first dragged my real photo of the portrait to my self to the background layer and locked the layer. Locking up the layer was to prevent from my worse incase if I messed something up. I made the polaroid pieces the same size for all of the facial features as well. For each of the layers I duplicated were for each of the picture that I selected on each of the different facial features. I dragged down my background to the plus symbol and it duplicated a copy for me. This shows that it does not damages the layer of the original copy of my portrait. I used the rectangle selection tool to select the areas of my face. I first chose the eye cause to me I thought it was the easier part to do.
The next thing I did was I used the move tool to move the selected area of the shape that I created. I pressed command and T to resize and scale the image up of the facial feature and then re-placed onto the same original area where the eye was. I did this on the layer that I copied but not the one that I used for the background. It started to look really quite cool with the distorted and abstracted look on my face. That part was just an experimentation of what it is like to do for the final product. I went back and undo the whole thing I've done, reselected the same area of my face but this time I created a new layer for the image while It selected the image for me. I pressed command shift and J to create a new layer of the image. It cropped it on to its own new layer.
After that I then renamed it as "Left eye", just to make it easier to navigate which bit of the face it is. On the new layer however I resized the image with using the handy short cut key and overlay on top of the original copy of the image. After when I finished all of this I then next used the rectangle tool to create a polaroid shape over the selected cropped image that I created. The polaroid shape was used for the background just to give it like a style of what David Hockney did with his photo montages. For the new background, I created a new layer and named it as "PGB". Then after that I did the same thing for the rest of my facial features to create a final outcome of my David Hockney style photo montage.
Conclusion
In my opinion, I think this was the better task that I did when I did it back in my secondary school. During my secondary year, we did this type of task but not using portrait but instead using background and using the traditional method such as paper, print and camera. I've done many different or same type of David Hockney stuff over the years but I still do enjoy these type of tasks. As they're quite cool to look at. I am into abstract art and distorted things cause it makes me think and wonder about the image. So was it successful in the end? I guess so, since I followed the pre-recorded tutorial that the teacher gave me to do.
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