I wanted my gif to tell a little story within itself. Because I combined fall and space in my e-collage, I thought I could create a transition between the two as my story. I really liked how my digital collage came out, and I liked my font poem, so I wanted to marry the two in a nice way. I decided to leave each piece as it was, and combine different elements from each together (i.e. a few words with a piece of imagery).
The biggest problem I encountered during this project was the learning curve that came with creating a gif. Once I figured that out, it took me many trials to make a successful one. I had to delete everything and start over at least 4 times because I kept changing my mind. Once I started to get the hang of it, I was able to make edits without deleting everything. and it made it much more efficient. Once I had the technical stuff figured out, my biggest problem was figuring out how I wanted to combine the text and images to make the gif flow best.
There was a lot of new stuff for me with this project. I have never before created a gif in Photoshop, so I was very excited to learn how to. It was very fun to play around with a new aspect of the program. Now, I feel like I have gained a valuable skill that I can use going forward. I really enjoyed spending time exploring Photoshop.
I am very proud with how this project turned out. I put a lot of effort into making a lot of different movements, and I think they tie together smoothly.
If I had more time, I probably would have spent a little more time making the transitions smoother, and make the different elements fade in and out. However, I am very happy with how it turned out. I feel like I put a lot of effort into matching up different elements and making them move independently.
Bailee Maston 