The way things look...

...on this blog is what this post is about, so here is my first effort for my new visual literacy art class journal. I am working with the Blogger design tool in order to create a blog that aesthetically pleases me, since this is supposed to be all about appearances!

This is a photo I took of Professor Valentine and one of my classmates, which I then edited using Adobe Photoshop. I'm also taking an image processing class, and I am an interactive media studies major, so I thought it made sense, in a sort of meta way, to have my media interact right here! I used the "posterize" filter and made some color, tone, and lighting corrections. It is my first effort, but I think it looks pretty cool!  According to Adobe's help page,

"The Posterize filter lets you specify the number of tonal levels (or brightness values) for each channel in an image and then maps pixels to the closest matching level. For example, choosing two tonal levels in an RGB image gives six colors, two for red, two for green, and two for blue.

This command is useful for creating special effects, such as large, flat areas in a photograph. Its effects are most evident when you reduce the number of gray levels in a grayscale image. But it also produces interesting effects in color images."