L337

Hm. So. The process through this project. After some time of looking through the other pictures I took, I chose this. I happened to have been taking a picture with my friend Mac, but I found the way I posed in this picture with photobooth interesting. This was my second day of photoshopping this picture into something only because of the fact that I'm extremely indecisive. So, using Adobe CS3, I used brushes that look like paint splatters in the color that my nails are painted in at this point in time for the background. Usually I like to use paint splatters because of the randomness of where the paint ends. I also used the red underneath the layer that says "L337" to emphasize "L337".

Using the picture of myself, I cropped myself out, brightened the contrast, and played with the curves before putting it on top of the background. With the background I used two different filters of select parts of the paint. I used the "watercolor" filter to show a contrast with the regular paint, and also "grain" to add a subtle effect of a difference.

In this project I believe it best represents me for many reasons. First, I blocked my eyes out because although I believe my eyes to be very effective in the way that they're extremely striking, I thought maybe my body language may have a similar effect. Second, as before, I like the randomness of the paint splatters. I chose the colors because I like bright, bold colors. At least, at this moment I do. Lastly, I chose the letter "L" and the number "337" (three hundred thirty seven) because it looks like "leet" and I'M LEET. HAHAHA! Just a joke. But it does look interesting, and I think I'm pretty interesting..