Leopard Woman

One of my classes in college is called Digital Imaging. In my opinion, that is just a fancy name for 'photoshop'. It is slightly different than photoshop in that we are learning theory as well as techniques, but essentially it all comes down to just being a photoshop class. The first couple of classes were incredibly boring to me because he took over our screens and showed us how to use every single tool that was there. They have to treat the class as if everyone is a beginner though so I can't really say anything. We have been moving quite quickly which for me is nice, but for some of the others in the class is fairly difficult. On Monday, our third lesson, we had to create this picture:



It comes from the website of a graphic artist who frequently merges the textures of animals with the features of humans. His website is called Naturemorphosis. This man spends somewhere close to 36 hours working on each picture. We had to create the same thing in less than two. We were, of course, given the original three pictures to start with.

The woman.



The leopard print.



The concrete.



Had I been left on my own, I would have easily been able to figure it out and work on it, but the point of the lesson was to teach us other ways to do things. He would show us how to do part of it and then return our screens to us and have us work on that part. Once everyone had completed that section, he would show us how to do the next bit. How it turned out working was that about two or three people in the class, including me, would finish in about two minutes and then have to sit and wait for the others to finish up. We couldn't move on because we didn't know how he wanted us to do it. As you can imagine, it got very frustrating. Normally photo-merging is a fun activity to me and I enjoy it very much. This, however, was tedious and annoying. After working this way for an hour and a half, I got sick of doing the project and stopped being serious. This is how my final image turned out:



And now people are going to say "You're in college! What a waste of time and a grade!" My answer to you is yes, I am in college. However, the teacher doesn't look at this. We work on it in class and as soon as class is over he says "Ok, well if you want to keep that go ahead and save it, if not then just close photoshop and I'll see you all next week." Of course I had not yet finished the image so it doesn't look quite done, I just got too bored to fix it up all the way. Anyways, the moral of this story is that if you ever get bored in your photoshop class and decide to draw on your project, make sure you do so on a new layer so you don't permanently ruin your image like I did.