A Mandala is the same thing as a Tessellation it is just depicted in the shape of a circle. I created the mandala by using the template given to me by Mrs. Moncure. I used the magic wand tool to cut and drag a peice of the template onto my picture then I was able to save it and bring that part of the picture back to the template. Then you do a lot of transformations and rotations to reflect and merge the picture. I liked how a picture of a common object like a paint can, can become something abstract and unidentifiable. I struggled with making the pictures line up because I continued to forget to hit merge layers. If I had to do it over again I would take pictures of more common place items.
In my own words the meaning of tessellation is a picture that is duplicated and reflected enough times that it is no longer the same picture and it is able to give a different feeling or emotion than the original picture does when it is by itself. To create the tessellations in Photoshop I made a new file then used the ruler to place guide lines how ever many inches apart I wanted. Then I cropped my image and sized it to fit in the square and I dragged it over and placed it in a square. Then I duplicated the layer and then went to edit then transform to reflect it horizontally or vertically. After I did that four times I selected each layer hit merge layers and then duplicated all of them at once and reflected them against the original four pictures and I repeated that process till all the space was filled up. I liked how all the images come together to make something completely different, my favorite image was the third one with the orange flower because of how vibrant the orange is and the way it contrasts with the blue sky. I struggled with duplicating each layer because I wasn't selecting them all but instead doing each one individually and that became a tedious task. If I had to do it over again I would use the image with the orange flower to create a more complex tessellation.
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Gino AlvernazI am a Junior in High school and a first year student to Photography Archives
May 2017
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