"Your emotional currents are flowing powerfully now!"



Week 2: Fortune Cookie

This week we were to get a fortune and give our interpretation. My fortune was: “Your emotional currents are flowing powerfully now.” To me this fortune gave me the idea to incorporate water and how the change in tides can occur quickly like emotions do.  Both of the pieces are similar in nature in order to express the emotions and power behind them; however the first depicts more emotions while the second depicts more conflicting emotions. For these pieces I used the Quick Selection, Blur, Smudge, Eraser, and Clone Stamp tools to create the effects I wanted. In the second piece I used layer adjustments like the overlay, saturation, and channel mixer to create a stormy atmosphere for this more emotional conflict piece. I used both my own photos and borrowed some other photos from Getty Images that is was not able to get on my own camera. This week I feel like I have the hang of it so far but I know I can improve on the refining techniques. I really enjoyed this project! It was fun to mess around with the different layers and giving my own ideas to the fortune. I’m getting better at this!