“Wait, Where’d that guy come from?” I thought would be fun to do and apparently so did a lot of other people! I decided to clash Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with the infamous Lindsey Lohan doing one of her sexy poses. Try and find her!

HarryPotterandLL? © by katherinekd101katherinekd101

I uploaded each image to Photoshop and reduced the size of Lindsey Lohan to make her squeeze into the frame. I then used the “Lasso” tool to get an exact cutout of her body and face to copy and paste into the image of Harry Potter and classmates circling the Goblet of Fire.

I chose to do Harry Potter because I am a Harry Potter fan/geek/way too obsessed with the books and movies. It only seemed appropriate. I chose Lindsey Lohan because she has been notorious for stealing the medias attention in the past years with “scandalous” stunts. So who would be better to steal the attention from this great scene?

Image can be found on my FLICKR account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/

cartoon me © by katherinekd101

cartoon comparison © by katherinekd101

I edited this photo through Photoshop by playing with a filter called “Cutout” under Artistic filters. I then adjusted the Brightness and Contrast of the image so it still had texture and that “comic book cartoonish” feeling.

I chose this image in particular because I am wearing a blue dress (really there is a pattern here) with great textures that I thought would compliment being a cartoon character very well. I chose this assignment in particular because honestly it was always been a secret of mine to know what I would look like as a cartoon character/drawing.

Both images can be found on my FLICKR account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/

Karma, is the one word I always have lived by and plan to live by for the rest of my life. (So deep I know) I truly believe in its meaning, what goes around comes around, if you treat someone in a certain expect the something in a similar way returned. I have lived my life around the concept of Karma and so far I’ve been doing alright and I am happy with were I am in my life.

Karma image © by katherinekd101

I put the word “karma” in a circle because its a continuos cycle that lasts forever.

The way I developed this was through a word document. I used cursive because of how well each letter flows together forming a more fluid circle shape. I chose the color blue, well honestly because its my favorite color.

This image can be found on my FLICKR account too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79114434@N05/

CREW ROWING what i do © by katherinekd101

“What People Think I do” has been one of the most popular memes that have circulated around the internet this year so far. How could I resist NOT doing an assignment like this?! I based this around rowing. I fell in love with crew during the Spring 2012 semester and now constantly crave it… only 2 more months . However, while doing crew I encountered a lot of “what my friends think” “What my parents think” “What strangers think” and then the cruel reality. 90% of the time I am rowing, but when I have time off I curl into a small ball and sleep for hours… even for days (that was a one time deal).

Once again my trusty friend PowerPoint helped me design this. I used Photoshop to reduce the size of the images so I could upload the photo into FLICKR. From all of the various options PowerPoint offers now, I chose a nice solid black background, it seemed suitable. From there I pasted each image in the order I wanted (design moment!) Under each image is a text saying “What X thinks I do” I used text box for this part. I decided to take a screen snapshot of my finished product. I found this to be a very tool as well. For anyone who has a MAC BOOK PRO and doesn’t know how to do this, simply download an application called “grab” it comes with the computer. This allows you to easily take snap shots .

For our Design Assignments, one of the options we could choose was to make a Creative Commons poster. I love the idea of Creative Commons and figured this was a perfect assignment to do.

I made this image through PowerPoint, which to my surprise over the past two weeks has been an extremely resourceful tool. This really is a learning experience! I found an image that was under a Creative Commons Right and allowed me to alter the photo in a specific way. I used “text box” to insert the text and the Creative Commons logo.

This image was chosen specifically because I want to send the message that creativity should never been wasted away or hidden because of restrictions on copyright. Creative Commons allows for the removal of those restrictions and gives people the freedom to express themselves while sharing their art globally. Children hiding behind a huge umbrella symbolizes what potentially could happen to future generations of the internet doesn’t expand itself creatively and knowledgeably by peoples insights.