Scourge of a butterfly

While on the train, I was viewing my pictures for something to do for a long, Internet-less, two hours. I figured that the butterfly photo I had was rather a bland look, so I took it into my own hands. I used my photo shop program as well as a little illustrator (bare in mind, this was at the point where I thought that I was going to fail that course because I had no idea how to use photo shop or illustrator), and twisted the picture to my own. The reason I renamed it the SCOURGE OF A BUTTERFLY, is if we think of a butterfly as just a butterfly, this frail and almost insignificant animal, then we are obviously forgetting about one of the most famous theories of all, the butterfly effect. The butterfly in the picture is meant to be the imprint of a butterfly that had been stepped on and flattened on the ground, the action burned into the ground (ground zero for the beginning of the long, ALMOST random domino effect). The ring around the butterfly is the ever expending and ever widening reach, burning and affecting everything that comes into the wake. The green and white scarring was meant to represent the scarring that is happening as the effect reaches further. Essentially, I wanted to make it seem to spread the message that the butterfly effect does indeed exist and although it may not seem to be in any way related to the initial event, it may actually be part of a bigger picture. As it was said in Heroes as Peter and his mother were talking, "Step on a butterfly and 10, 000 people may end up dead".


FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO SEE A REALLY GOOD MOVIE BASED ON THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT,
(A.K.A. - CHAOS THEORY, DOMINO EFFECT, ETC....), RENT THE MOVIE "CHAOS".

Scott's Catchup Adobe Illustrator

Selection tool - The Illustrator selection tool is for selecting objects in your layouts, such as shapes and blocks of type. Once selected, you can use the tool to move, transform, or apply any number of filters or effects to the selected objects.

Direct selection tool - like the selection tool except that it selects only points of an object or a group.

Pathfinder - combine several shapes in different ways, combining, intersecting and dividing them.

Magic wand - a solid tool that allows you to select objects based on defined criteria and make quick changes to your drawings and illustrations.

Warp tool - allowing the user to nudge a path around in a natural manner. The other six tools: Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle liquify your images and are fairly self-explanatory.

Brushes -

Symbols -

Vector - one of the two major graphic types. Vector graphics are made up of many individual objects. Each of these objects can be defined by mathematical statements and has individual properties assigned to it such as color, fill, and outline. Vector graphics are resolution independent because they can be output to the highest quality at any scale.

Blending - allows you to take two or more objects and blend them together by either steps or as a smooth blend.

Live trace -enables you to change photos into vector-based drawings, allowing you to resize any image without losing quality.

Live paint -can instantly apply color, gradients, and other fills to any enclosed space in your artwork, without having to make sure it's defined as a separate vector object first.

Scott's catchup for photoshop

Mask - It's a function that serves the purpose of "masking" specific elements of a vector, graphic or bitmap in order to diplay or to not display a certain portion of the image.

Smart filters - allows you to apply, edit, adjust opacity and even apply blending modes to single or multiple filters on a single layer.

Adjustment layers - similar to smart filters in that they create effect and alter the image, except that they only apply to one layer specificly without touching the others.

Wrapped Text - allows you to create a text that wraps around an object.

Selection tools - allows you to select one or more objects at a time and move, alter, or delete objects in groups.

Layer styles - Layer styles are special effects that can be applied to an entire layer overall.

Layers - best described as digital transparencies put one on top of the other to create an overall picture. You can turn them on and off to vary the picture.

Variations - lets you adjust the color balance, contrast, and saturation of an image by showing you thumbnails of alternatives.

Save for Web or Device - used to select optimization options and preview optimized artwork.

Blending Modes - controls how pixels in the image are affected by a painting or editing tool.

Bitmap - Bitmap mode uses one of two color values (black or white) to represent the pixels in an image. Images in Bitmap mode are called bitmapped 1-bit images because they have a bit depth of 1.