(✎) (✉) Pixel Portrait Assignment

Hello.Welcome Back, to our new assigment. This assignment is about a Pixel Portrait. The purpose of this is to create a Pixel Portrait of ourselves, so check it out. 

                         

        Hey, Those two are the same, don't they? Well, if you try to enlarge it, you will see the difference. The left one is on a .gif format and the other one is on a .png format. What is the difference? So, basically GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It is a bitmap/raster image format. So far from what I've known,  .gif format is usually used by people to create animations but for 'still image' i don't know yet. For PNG, it stands for Portable Network Graphics. It is also a raster image format. So far, I found .png format is more better than others, it often produces better quality images. But in this case, both format for me.... first of all they look the same. So far from what I've seen, the quality of the .png (in this case) is much better than the .gif. The .png is much more smoother and the colours look more balanced and contrasted. The .gif, for overall, it almost has the same quality as .png format, but it just loses some values and colours (some of the parts are kinda dark a bit, like the hair and the details). Anyway, The features and characteristics that I was attempting to accentuate is my looks. The first feature that I found interesting is my sweater. Because, i don't know why but so far everytime I go outside, I usually wear my sweater and my jacket. I rarely wear only a shirt. The second feature is my glasses. I always wear my glasses everyday. The colours that I chose for this artwork are all based on the actual colours. Like the sweater. jacket, glasses, and my shirt (inside).

         How I created those?....hmm.. First of all, I opened Photoshop, create a new document with the options of 100 x 150 pixels, RGB colours, white background, and 72 resolution. And then, I searched for some photos of myself on my computer and find a good one. Then, I opened it on Photoshop. I cropped it to 100 x 150 pixels to match the actual document's size and resolution. I added a new layer above the photo's layer and I picked the colour of my skin by using the "Eyedropper Tool" and began tracing my face over the photo by using the "Pencil Tool" with 1 pixel-size option (but in some cases I changed the size to somewhere around 4-10, because it makes me easier to fill big parts). I traced the face by following its shape... After I got its shape, then I added the other things. Such as the mouth, teeth, eyes, eyebrows and nose. For this section I worked on separate layers, so each part have their own layers and I also worked under the photo's layer (before, I was working over the photo's layer) and just turned the "Visibility" On and Off to see what was going on. And basically, all I did was just trace the parts of the photo that I want.... For the glasses and the hair I just drew what they supposed to look because if I had to trace them, it wouldn't look nice because those parts in the photo were kinda dark and pixelated. Anyway, I picked the proper colours by using the "Eyedropper Tool" again, and drew them by using the "Pencil Tool" with 1 to 4 or 6 pixel-size option. For the glasses' lens I turned the opacity down to somewhere around 37 (by right-clicking the glasses' lens layer and then click the Blending Option... and turn the Opacity down). Because, it helps the glasses look realistic. For the last step, I just tweaked everything and added some highlights or details to each parts/corners to help them look like "8 bit" or "Pixelated". Like in the old video game, like Super Mario Bros. Anyway, thank you and sorry for mistakes.