This is our final assignment that demonstrates what we have learned throughout this course. The topic for the Thematic is: "All of the Sudden." At firstI was going to do "All of the Sudden Time Stopped." I got this idea when I looked at a clock in a classroom at school and it froze midway through class. We all laughed at this, but then I thought, 'what if time stopped when the clocked stopped?' Once I had my idea I went back to my favourite search engine Google (of course). I found a picture of a glowing clock and a picture of Usher walking down the street with a group of people:
I opened Photoshop Elements and got to work. First I created a new file and dragged the picture of Usher and the group onto a layer and named it "Usher". Next I dragged the clock picture over the Usher picture, which automatically created a new layer. The first thing I did was go to the layer settings menu on the bottom right corner and change the Usher picture's "Blending Mode" settings from Normal, to Exclusion. This got a cool effect that they usually use in some movies to show time freezing. Well usually when time freezes the colour of everything changes from normal to strange. 
Next I dragged the clock to the top right corner using the move tool and resized it a bit so that it didn't go over top of the people in the picture. Then I changed the Blending mode to Lighten, which got rid of the dark background around the clock and made it look like it was a floating/ glowing clock. I had many plans for this theme. I was going to add glowing crosshairs on Usher and a clowing timer ontop of their heads butAt this point I went on Christmas break and came back with a brand new idea. I left the clock idea incomplete and moved on to my next Theme: All of the Sudden I Was Falling...
To create this image I went back to Google (again?) and found an image of a person falling from a building in first person view. Next I found an image of a person falling (but the person is very small and can barely be seen) and a picture of an eye floating in a dream like world.
I started by opening these image files from my saved image files. Next I created a new file and dragged the first falling image onto it and labeled the layer "Fall 1." Next I dragged the second picture onto the new file and adjusted the layer so that it was ontop of the "Fall 1" layer. Then I labeled it "Fall 2." I took Fall 2 layer and adjusted it so that it covered a bit of the Fall 1 layer then I created a new layer between them and selected the Gradient tool. I used the gradient tool (on a pixelated looking setting) on the new created layer by selected the area in the middle of both pictures. At this point a dark shade appears on the bottom of the new layer. Then I selected Fall 2 (suppose to be on the top layer) and pressed Ctr G. This blended the layers together. Next I dragged the dream picture using the move tool onto Fall 2. I resized it, distorted it and chaned the blending options to Hard light. Next I blended the fall 2 layer with the dream picture and then used the stamp tool to add the finishing touches.
