The House of My Mind project aim was to capture the essence of a house-like feeling or environment, and, using photoshop and newly learned techniques, blend together and incorporate multiple images to create a unified final project.
My final project was quite successful in the notion that I accomplished many of the new skills, such as masking, that we learned how to do in photoshop. The valuable skill of being comfortable with editing and manipulating photos in a digital setting helped me create images that gave insight to who I am, and what my mind is like. In the beginning, I had intentions of photographs that used only a few images, using simple tools, to make a fabricated image of something house-like. However, as I became more comfortable in the computer setting, I began to take different paths with my editing. I developed my craft and stretched and explored with the new techniques, especially with the comparison of my first photograph, seemingly less advanced technically than the later ones. I feel that now I have refined my craftsmanship to a wider area of capability. I grew from a person quite unfamiliar to the whole Photoshop thing, to one who can easily navigate. My "Thought Process" image, which was the one I made first, compared to the others, shows my growth from earlier in the year up until now. One can see the progression of a beginner to masking to a master, not really, but a better one anyway.
