Prodbyzhenya Digital Space

  On the left, you can see the original photo, and on the right is the "After" I really enjoyed the process, as it immersed me in an exceptionally creative process. I think created an alien from an advanced civilization... Let me tell you how I did this: 1) The first task was to find an image with great resolution that had not been already retouched. This is why I chose a portrait of my friend that I shot in RAW.  2) Just like in out TutVid tutorial, I added a layer with skin texture to the cheeks, chin and forehead. However, in the end, I had to mine this layer above all the rest.  3) To change her face, I started with the eyes, which I cut out with the lasso tool, and changed the size and position with cmd+T. I blended the edges with a soft eraser on low opacity. I repeated this while changing the position of her nose.  4) To remove the eyes (and later nose and brows) from where they originally were, I used the patch tool and took samples of other parts of the...

 I chose to do the Avatar project. For the work, I chose a simple portrait of my friend that I shot several months ago, because I could not find any unedited image on the web with such a great resolution. I did these sketches using iPad. Really excited about the result!!

For this assignment, I chose the book called "Aesthetic Intelligence" by Pauline Brown. This is the most recent book I have read, and which I got many insights from. There are two variants of the "original" book cover: an American, and a Russian one - which I saw first and bought it.  unfortunately, I could not find who designed the American version, but for the Russian one, it was Irina Ivanova.  Here are my sketches for the re-design of the cover:   I thought that the cover of such a narrative should give a better understanding of what the author means, as generally, people do not know what "aesthetic intelligence" is. In the book, Pauline Broun describes aesthetics from all the possible perspectives, such as smell, touch, taste, color, material, thickness, etc. Why not make the cover the reflection of some of those aspects? I would like to go beyond simple pictures and text but also work with the materials used - make it fury/glossy/matte - and many eve...