Week 5: Composition Focus

These collages are made out of an onion ring and an eyeball. First, I renamed the background layer to unlock the layer and to change the background color. Then, I copied and pasted one of my onion ring cutout in each of the three blank files I opened up in Photoshop. For each collage I went to the edit drop down section and clicked on transform and then the scale tool. For each cutout I would vary the size in each collage to have a variable. After I was satisfied with each different scale, I clicked the select all button and copied and pasted  each cutout numerous a times until I was able to fill my page up. I lined the onion rings in a line of three making the middle line layer on top. I selected the center layer and clicked on image and saturation/hue where I changed the onion ring to three different hues. I arranged the onion rings this way to give the collages a dramatic effect. In all three of my collages I have constants and variable differences. I am controlling the viewer's eye by positioning the layers on top of each other so that the center layer looks the most important. This helps the eye to ignore the other onion rings because they look less important since they are farther back in the collage. The design consistencies that I have are location, size, saturation, and lines. In each collage, I have the same location which is positioned in the center and on the top layer. Even though the top layer looks larger, each onion ring in each collage also is the exact same size throughout the collage. The color saturation is also constant throughout these three collages staying at zero. Also, I positioned the onion rings in a set of three horizontal lines while making the middle section in front. The design variables that I have are scale, quantity, and hue. I enlarged the scale in the first collage, I used the original scale of the cutout in the second collage, and I reduced the scale in the third collage. I used different quantities of cutouts in each collage to be able to fill the pages with my dramatic design since I was working with three different scales. Each colored onion ring has a different hue level. The hue level is at zero in the first collage, a -80 level in the second collage, and a +180 level in the third collage.This is an eyeball inside of an onion ring and it does not mean anything otherwise. I am trying to say that these collages can all be of the same object and have many design consistencies, but yet are uniquely different by having their own variables.