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Background Eraser Tool

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For this project we used photoshop and to be specific, the background eraser tool. The background eraser tool helps one remove the background from a photo, say if you have a photograph of a black cat sitting in snow you can use the tool to remove the background without ruining the subject in the photograph (Because the tool would remove all white, and since there's enough contrast between the subject and background, the subject wouldn't be damaged.)  Here's a photograph I took and decided to use the tool on: In this picture there's a lot of contrast between background and subject, and because of this the eraser tool didn't damage the subject. (The only problem was the cat's white paws that got in the way, but the tool is easy to work with and removing the background there doesn't take too long either.) Here's what the picture looks like after I've used the background eraser tool: Perfectly cut. And now that I've erased the b...

Ragnarok

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In this project we were given the task to make a little book design based on a text about Ragnarok. We were all given a part of the text to make a block print/lino cut (cutting lino) of (Like I got the part of the text that talks about the Fenrir wolf so I made a block print based on that.) then we were given the task to make an initial. We had to put this together to make the two pages in the small book, with the block print first then the initial + text. I used InDesign to put the book together, using fonts that would fit the theme. Here are some progress shots: The print before I edited it and put it in the book Sketch for initial lined, non edited And here's the final product: Here's the front and back page And here's the actual pages of the book