A mandala is an image that includes the repetition of geometric shapes, usually in a circular form. I created my mandals through Photoshop by using images that I took during class. The first step I took to create my mandala was finding an image that I wanted to use and finding the template that would help me shape my image and dragged both to the Photoshop icon. I then used the move tool to grab the tab of the photo I wanted to use and dragged it out of the Photoshop frame. Using the magic wand tool, I clicked on the triangle I wanted to use, and moved it to the image I was going to cut. I then found a part of the image that would be interesting in a mandla, then pressed Command-C to copy the spot. I then went back to my template and pressed Command-V to paste the cut image. I dragged the image tab back into the Photoshop frame and began my mandala pattern. I first duplicated the first layer using Command-J and with the duplicated layer I did Edit-Transform-Flip horizontal. I then did Edit-Transform-Rotate to the same layer. I rotated the image to around -135 and clicked check when it aligned with the triangle. I aligned both of the layers up to fit inside of the triangle template and when they did not align perfectly, I used the arrow keys to move the layers closer. When I was satisfied with how it looked, I pressed Command-Click to select the two layers, then I pressed Command-E to merge the two layers. With the new layer (including the first two layers), I duplicated the layer and then did Edit-Transform-Flip Horizontal. I aligned the two layers and used the arrow keys to make the madala perfect. I merged the two layers and was now finished with half of my mandala. I then duplicated the new layer and flipped the duplicated layer vertically. I aligned the two layers and was almost finished with my mandla. I used the purple lines to adjust the mandala to create a perfect circle and deleted the template background. I saved my mandala to my desktop and to the common drive. I liked creating the mandalas due to ending with an image that was completely different from the original picture. My favorite image was the image of the leaf. I first struggled with making the triangles line up perfectly to fit inside of the triangle, but by using the arrow keys, I was able to solve this problem. If I had to do it over again, I would choose different elements to take pictures of and include more detail in my images.
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AuthorMaddy Cuppett, an exploring, excited photography student in the learning. Archives
June 2017
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