Gestalt

For this activity we went over the principals for Gestalt. I chose to use "similarity" in my picture, which "group similar objects together in a meaningful way." In this picture all of the objects for one have to do with weather and the suns for the first and last row allow similarity to take form.

This picture was inspired in class by Dr. Estes and represents "closure" as one of Gestalt's principals. The arrows are formatted in a way that allows an X to take form in the open space between the four arrows. By looking at this you mind does fill in the empty space in the form of an X even though there is nothing there but arrows, which is a really cool illusion!

For the next three pictures the assignment was to create an icon from an image. This picture was my original image that I used. I choose the anchor because I feel as though it is a symbol for the sea. I got this image from Google.

To create this image, I first used the magnetic lasso to outline the anchor to separate it from the rest of the photo. After I moved the anchor to a new document and went to Fx at the bottom right of Photo Shop and changed the anchor to black along with the opacity. I also changed the texture and depth on the scale. the inner shadow, outer glow, bevel and emboss, satin and color overall in stock were all selected to give the anchor this current look. I choose to change so much of the anchor to make it stand out as much as possible by still making a statement at the same time. By doing all of these things the outcome of the final image I believe does show similar features to those in the book. I think black works the best with this image and the texture really makes it stand out.

This last image is something that I just fooled around with in PowerPoint. I wanted to do one more viewpoint on an anchor by just using the different arrow shapes in PowerPoint. I changed the gradient but that was about all I did besides rotating the two arrows to make the similar to the anchor. Just a another way to view something as iconic in a different outlook.