Hello I'm back with another post. It is now the start of quarter 2, and this months blog post is gonna be about our new project witch is called polly portraits. Things like colors and sounds are universal, and so are facial expressions. Universal means that it could be understood by people all around the world. Facial expressions allow you to get across to people how you feel without using words. If you have a smiling people from all around the world will be able to tell that you are happy.
When creating a polly portrait there are lots of steps to go through with, and could take a long time. When creating mine, I started by first Getting a photo and opening it into photoshop. After you have your photo loaded in photoshop, if your photo is symmetrical, you can draw a line down the center of your photo, if not then your gonna just have to do the whole thing. Then you set up your grid and use the line tool with a size of 5pixels you start to outline your photo going along with the grid lines Then add draw triangles into the outlines you made. After all of your triangles are done, you start to fill them in by using the elliptical marque tool to select your shape and go filter>distort>average to color in your shape. do that for your whole image, but if your image is symmetrical them you only have to do half and then you can copy that image and flip it to the other side.
We did this project multiple times using different methods. The first way we did it probably took the longest because we had to first outlined our face, and filled it in with triangles using the line tool. Once we covered our face with triangles then we went back over them with the polygonal lasso tool to color the polygons in. I had some difficulties when it came to overlapping the triangles, there were a few gaps in there that there shouldn't be. The second way we did it was a bit easier since we ditched the outline and just went right into drawing and filling in the triangles. My main issue with this project wasn't anything technical, it was the shortage of time. Since of the rush I was having on the last day, I tried to quickly fill everything in so that I could finish, but I didn't end up adding as much detail as I could of in areas like the eyes.
When creating a polly portrait there are lots of steps to go through with, and could take a long time. When creating mine, I started by first Getting a photo and opening it into photoshop. After you have your photo loaded in photoshop, if your photo is symmetrical, you can draw a line down the center of your photo, if not then your gonna just have to do the whole thing. Then you set up your grid and use the line tool with a size of 5pixels you start to outline your photo going along with the grid lines Then add draw triangles into the outlines you made. After all of your triangles are done, you start to fill them in by using the elliptical marque tool to select your shape and go filter>distort>average to color in your shape. do that for your whole image, but if your image is symmetrical them you only have to do half and then you can copy that image and flip it to the other side.
We did this project multiple times using different methods. The first way we did it probably took the longest because we had to first outlined our face, and filled it in with triangles using the line tool. Once we covered our face with triangles then we went back over them with the polygonal lasso tool to color the polygons in. I had some difficulties when it came to overlapping the triangles, there were a few gaps in there that there shouldn't be. The second way we did it was a bit easier since we ditched the outline and just went right into drawing and filling in the triangles. My main issue with this project wasn't anything technical, it was the shortage of time. Since of the rush I was having on the last day, I tried to quickly fill everything in so that I could finish, but I didn't end up adding as much detail as I could of in areas like the eyes.