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After creating this piece I save
the psd. (Photoshop file) two times, two different ways. On the left is the
gif. file and on the right is the png. file. Both images side by side at their
original image size of 100p x 150p look the same without any differences that I
can see. When I zoomed in 5 times and compared them side by side again I did
not see any change, I think this maybe because while creating this piece I kept
my colour pallet to a minimum only using colouring change to show obvious
differences in lighting and colour. I felt this was the best choice because the
original photograph had very warm lighting and a lot of shadows. An example of
this is how my eyes are purple in the pixel portrait yet in real life they are
blue. This is the cause and effect of warm light; it turned cool colours such
as blue into a deep purple.
Originally while creating this I
wanted to accentuate my bright blue eyes, but because of the lighting I was not
able to do so without making colour composition looking very out of place. I
did not want this effect so half way through production I made the decision to
keep my eye colour to the original colour pallet found in the image I was
working on. My hair is pretty much the
same colour of a deep and warm brown. When I am in certain lighting you can see
red undertones shine through my hair I believe that this happened in this
image. Like I had said before the lighting I was in while taking this photo was
very warm and it was also coming from my left hand side. I think that because
of this lighting the red undertones were picked and displayed in the original
photo. The interesting part of this is that while I was examining my photo more
closely to be able to choose colours as close a possible to the original photo,
I noticed that the red undertones did not come through as red but instead a
very deep purple. I find this colour change very interesting. While creating my pixel portrait my main goal
was to accentuate the original and natural colours of the photos while at the
same time keeping it simple. I was hoping this would give an interesting
effect. I feel I have succeed.
As far as my technical procedure
goes I used a photograph that I had previously taken without knowledge of this
project. I took the picture my self (selfie) about two weeks before. I created
an rbg file in Photoshop with a white background and 100 pixel by 150 pixel perimeters.
I dragged the original photo into Photoshop through my desktop, positioned and
sized it to my liking and then locked the layer. I worked on top of a single
layer from then on applying each pixel using the pencil tool in a one pt. size.
(Yes I applied 15,000 pixels; it wasn’t as
difficult as one may think) I worked on one layer because then I could go over
pixels that I have previously place in to the fastest and most effect way. I felt time was important because I only has a
few days to apply 15,000 pixels. Also because the file was only 15,000 pixels I
knew that my file was not going to get overly large or contemplated. I selected
my colour by using the eyedropper tool to pull colour from my original photo. I
chose the colours by analyzing my photo and pulling the colour that I could see
was appearing the most in a particular area.
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