Digital Artists

Loretta Lux 
She was born 1969 in Dresden, East Germany and she's known as a fine art photographer. She also is known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco. 
The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation.
Lux's work - at once alluring and self envigorating- usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources. She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge. Lux’s photographs delve into notions of childhood, the unfolding story of growing up and “the discovery of self and the equivocal connection between self and world,” as she puts it. 


Here are a few of her pictures that are known for portraits of young children.

I found her work amazing to look at, i like the way her work comes across really different to other photographers and quite thought they were strange. I think that her pictures are all really clear and the lightening is very bright. You can see in her work that she uses photoshop and some pictures show thats its obvious. Lux's digitally composed images but there is more to Lux's photographs than inherent peculiarity.

I like the way Lux's uses the same child a few times in her images and makes them different each time, which i really like that she keeps a few for her photographs to the same image. This image Lux's has used photoshop as it shows in the image that the ball is falling, the colours are bright and clear. You can't stop wondering about the stories behind these children.

Loretta Lux uses photoshop to manipulate fantasy images of children exploring innocence. Lux's uses photoshop to manipulate fantasy images of children exploring different things. I want to do something that involved digital media.... I like this image it shows this character is shy and quiet. Her eyes are really blue and the photograph is clear.

This image you can tell that she's used photoshop, Lux's has made this girl look older than what she is, its looks fake and her hair doesn't look real neither does her face fall of makeup, but i like the affect and the colour to this picture. 

File Format

File Format

When an image is captured by a camera or a scanning device it has to be saved or memorized in a 'file format'. The information can only be read and understood if the software recognizes the format.

The dominate formats are:

•   JPEG (joint photographic experts group) JPG.

•   TIFF (Tagged Image Filme Format) TIF.

•   PSD (PhotoShop Document) PSD

•   RAW (Raw Unprocessed Information)

File > Save as - This opens up numerous options for the photoshop / P.C. user for simplicity it is advisable that you save your work as either a TIFF or PSD file because they support all of photoshops features. Note:  not all formats support layers.

Tiff this format is generally regarded as the industry standard because it is the most universally recognized format. Photoshop's variant of this format supports image layers,adjustments, layers, paths, clipping paths and ICC profiles. It's the most  popular format for photographers delivering RGB and CYMK files to clients. It's good practice to flatten files because only photoshop supports layered tiffs.

PSD

Photoshops native format supports everything photoshop can do including ICC profiles. Until version 6 it was the only format that supported layers. This format is only recognized by photoshop so it is not advisable to hand PSD files over to clients.

JPEG

The most commonly used file format. It as 'lossy' compression that transmits what it seems to be important content and discards colour information that it considers redundant. There is no option to save without compression but embedding ICC profile is an option. JPEG allows you to make a trade off between image file size and image quality. JPEG compression divides the images in squares in 8x8 pixels which are compressed independently. As you increase compression the squares become more visible.

100% quality JPEG. IS very hard to distinguish from the uncompressed original typically taken upto 6 times as much storage space.

80% quality JPEG still look good although it is 10 times smaller than the uncompressed original. Some detrition will occur however.

60% quality JPEG 20 times smaller than the uncompressed original sufficient for website use.

10% quality JPEG this will show serious image declaration with very visible 8x8 JPEG squares. It is unlikely that you will ever use this level of compression but it illustrates what JPEG os doing at higher quality levels.

Upon close inspection of a compressed JPEG blocks of 8x8 pixels can become evident because of this degrading it is advisable to avoid saving in this format for high quality images.

JPEG can use several layers of compression dramatically reducing the size of closed files compared to their open state. If an image is shot on JPEG avoid re-saving as a JPEG as it will further degrade the image; save as TIFF.

Photoshop Work.

Here is a bit of photoshop work where i have got an image of a lady with really long hair which i was inspired by changing different settings on photo shop and setting out all the tools, the tools that i used on this picture was filter, artistic then film grain, and i changed the intensity so you could see the image more clearly. I like the way that this picture is mostly aimed at her really long her. I also like the different dark and light effects on her face its like an shadow.

This is another effect that i have used on photo shop, i choose the tool paint daubs because i really like the blurry effect on this picture particularly because her hair looks frizzy and her face is blurred out. I also like the dots in this image and background. I chose a black and white picture because the lady looked effective and i liked changing different effects and you can see the dark and light areas clearly.

This is the same image but different effect again, here i have used a tool called rough pastels which really gives the effect of using different pastels to create an art picture, i like this tool because i like the pastel effect that goes around the image in white, its like a shadow and i like the way you cant see the face again its a dark shadow maybe would look better if it had a bit more light where you can see the face more.

Iv changed the effect on this picture and the tool is called poster edges and i was inspired by this image because i like the blurriness and  shadow effect also i like that the pictures really dark in most places, then her hair is really white and lands out. I really like the dark background and this inspires me with my cd cover, i might have the background dark so the main image stands out the most.

RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS CD COVER

1.    "The Power of Equality" – 4:03

2.    "If You Have to Ask" – 3:37

3.    "Breaking the Girl" – 4:55

4.    "Funky Monks" – 5:23

5.    "Suck My Kiss" – 3:37

6.    "I Could Have Lied" – 4:04

7.    "Mellowship Slinky in B Major" – 4:00

8.    "The Righteous & the Wicked" – 4:08

9.    "Give It Away" – 4:43

10. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" – 4:31

11. "Under the Bridge" – 4:24

12. "Naked in the Rain" – 4:26

13. "Apache Rose Peacock" – 4:42

14. "The Greeting Song" – 3:13

15. "My Lovely Man" – 4:39

16. "Sir Psycho Sexy" – 8:17

17. "They're Red Hot" (Robert Johnson) – 1:12

18. "Little Miss Lover (iTunes Bonus Track)" (Hendrix) - 2:40

19. "Castles Made of Sand (iTunes Bonus Track)" (Hendrix) - 3:21

Here is red hot chilli peppers album songs.

The name of the album is the song blood sugar sex magik.
Here is the song lyrics for that song:

Blood sugar sucker fish
In my dish
How many pieces
Do you wish
Step into a heaven
Where I keep it on the soulside
Girl please me
Be my soul bride
Every woman
Has a piece of Aphrodite
Copulate to create
A state of sexual light
Kissing her virginity
My affinity
I mingle with the gods
I mingle with devinity

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Glorious euphoria
Is my must
Erotic shock
Is a function of lust
Temporarily blind
Dimensions to discover
In time
Each into the other
Uncontrollable notes
From her snowwhite throat
Fill a space
In which two bodies float
Operatic by voice
A fanatic by choice
Aromatic is the flower
She must be moist

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Blood sugar my girl
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

   

       I like this album cover because its of each side view faces of the chilli peppers, i like that its black and white then the roses are colorful red. I also like that its say 'hot sugar' on each side of the cd. I like that they chose red roses for HOT! as example of red.

    

When i think of red hot chilli peppers i think of fire, red, roses, hot, sugar, magic, stars, fireworks, love, pattern and all different things, here is a picture that i found on internet google.com that reminds me of red hot chilli peppers and it gives me ideas of the cd cover.  RED HOT !

I've come up with a few ideas for my final cd cover, first one is a fire flame background and photo shop writing that goes in to the fire. ''red hot chilli peppers''

Second idea is of a big rose flower with a pattern that goes around all the front cover cd album red and black, and im going to photo shop the writing ''red hot chilli peppers'' into the black pattern that comes off the title.

THIS IS THE ROSE THAT I WOULD HAVE ON MY CD COVER AND THEN PHOTO SHOP
 WRITING AROUND AND STEAM
 OR SOMETHING OR AT THE
SIDE OF THE CD. 

Julian Opie Style Picture

We took a photo of each one of us in the class, then copied all our photos onto the computer and we uploaded our photo of ourselves on photo shop, we used a pen tool to go on the outline of yourselves and then added color with the print bucket tool.

LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHY.

My location is walls, and iv chosen to do graffiti walls, and iv researched on Banksy. I'm inspired by his work because i like his style, i like that his work not so in your face with graffiti its more plain but effective in many ways, like this image of graffiti on the wall, i like the composition the the man is on the side painting on the graffiti.

I like this photograph by Banksy because his done graffiti on a brick wall which im doing for my lacation photography, i really like the style and im going to look more into this picture, i like the boy painting on the graffiti yet another image like the first one where someone is painting on the graffiti.

 Here is an image by Lurry Yust,  who is another graffiti artist. I like his work and I'm inspired by this picture because its really wow in your face, and i like the statue laying to the side and the composition, the graffiti stands out and very bright coloured  and imaginative.

I also like this image by Lurry Yust, because its another image where its full of life and imagination. I really like the colours and i like the way there so bright, i like the big star and all the little stars around it, i don't like that its so in your face but it very different.




There is some more information in my sketchbook and i have found the perfect location....

DAVID LACHAPELLE. CD COVER RESERCH PHOTO SHOP.

I like this photograph because its of singer Jlow and she looks like she is live on tour, and dancing. I think this would make a good cd cover taking at the very moment of the posing. I like that her hair is blowing in the photo.

I was inspired by this photograph because its of singer Fergie, and this picture makes a good cd cover, i like the way shes spread out of the sofa posing. You can see that its been photo shopped.

I thought this was a good example of one of David Lachapelle's photo shopped work, its a very obvious image that's been photo shopped. Her face doesn't look real neither does her hair or anything else for that matter. I like that its a bright colored photograph.

I chose this picture by David Lachapelle because it inspired me by the writing that goes into the picture and its photo shop with the color background which i really like, and this is what i want on my cd cover i want the writing to be photo shop into the color background for a good effect. It reminds me of a stencil where you can get all the letters the same and bold. I need to research photo shop writing.

JPEG

This screen print is to show that this picture is from the internet, and it has small number of pixels.