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  Photoshop from BW to Analogous  Using a casual picture from work seemed like a simple image to work with. This project was more straightforward than with previous programs and quite fun after figuring out Photoshop.  This is the original selfie I started working from. I wanted to just work on my main features. Focusing on the face, hair, shirt, and jacket.  Turning the  image to grayscale was  the first step before choosing my colors on Adobe Colors. This was my favorite to work with. I used the Swatches tool to save all the colors to make them easier to work with. Monochromatic  had all my favorite shades of purple and I wanted to maintain a primary solid color for the background.  Analogous was not my favorite, it had my favorite type of colors which were pastels. I had a hard time trying to mix the colors and make them look good. Compared to the other ones, I loved the color purple and didn't want to keep making it purple in this one.   Finally, with the Triad, the colors were

  Webflippy's Youtube channel focuses on Photoshop Tutorials. This video centers on a simple yet effective affect of making an object in a picture obtain a glowing effect. The most common tool used was the blending tool which seems fairly easy but also has a variety of blending options. There was not much information in the video to provide explanation for each tool but did show the diversity of forms within the blending tool.  MDMZ's video does something many people in current social media do to curate their feed. People love to photoshop themselves in destination and use a different pictures to sell a perspective to their audience. I loved this video in particular because it is a slower paced to understand the how to edit all these pictures one-by-one. This is a great example of modifying and blending that can be done in photoshop that can make it seamless. Most of the tutorials included in this post always use the selection tool to work off from. The hardest tool seem to be

  Adobe Illustrator was a bit harder to use this time around as I couldn't get the colors correct since the dropper would give such different shades, it became difficult. I used the mesh tool for the face to add discrete contour. The mesh mostly worked on the lips best because the face and neck path anchors were hard to manage.  Translation: Liberty or Nothing Statement: I believe propaganda holds a huge significance in our society. It has motivated and pushed large populations to defend their patriotism and country, It calls to action the injustices their country has suffered and asking its natives to fight back.  As someone who has both Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, both my countries are struggling through tyranny, under the shackles of colonization and embargos.  Most of the inspiration comes from both my countries, heavily inspired by Cuban propaganda during the Cuban Revolution. One significant figure that is constantly shown in posters is Argentinian Marxist, Che Guevarra.