Fortune cookie Assignment 2

For my fortune cookie it was "The path of life shall lead upwards for you." The reason i chose this fortune is because i felt like it pertained to me the most and had most meaning. The background that i chose was a country road where i use to live in Mt. Eden, i took the picture in black and white to begin with. What i added to the background was a picture of me as if i was walking up the road, along the road as i was walking up i have a basketball; the basketball represent me being focused in my life to help me get to where im going, it put me on the right path. The Spalding University sign was a way of saying that its only an up hill from here and you will have reached the top that your half way there. I also used a filter to a spot ligth to show that meaning of you wanting to go towards the light, that its a good thing to follow. I also had added a rainbow to represent a happy a sign of relief after a storm. So for me it was representing a sign of all the hard times that at the end of the path i could have satisfaction. Another thing that i added to my picture was my boyfriend who stands by me and has helped stay on the right path who is there for me and is always a helping hand. the last thing that i added was the chinese symbol life i just wanted it to represent the overall meaning of the fortune cookie. some effects that i added was the gray scale or color scale i should say, using some of the tools it enabled me to have a more of black and white affect where i was standing in the picture and lead into a more darker color going up through the picture.

This is my second picture that i designed that goes along with the fortune cookie i still used some of the same pictures and i also took some out to have more of a focus on just one thing. The main focus i wanted to use was the picture of my boyfriend in doing so i was trying to have the concept that without him the path wouldnt be so easy. what i did was made him have a screen effect to where you still see the main part of the background. The things that i did different was that i added fireworks in place of the rainbow and the spot light and gave it more of an excitement to want to get to the top of the hill. I also added a frame around the picture and changed the backgrounds lighting and saturation gave it more of a dark effect more then what the black and white already showed. Soem things that i had trouble with was trying to make the fireworks blend in better, as far as the color what i was wanting to try an obtain was at the bottom start out real dark and as you followed the picture up to the top it gets lighter and more color added to, but since it was already a black and white picture the only thing i probably could of done was added color to it little by little like i was painting.