{"id":3219,"date":"2025-02-02T21:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2025-02-02T21:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T21:39:33","slug":"my-first-ps-abstract-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/2025\/02\/02\/my-first-ps-abstract-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"My first PS abstract composition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4098\/2025\/02\/My-first-composition-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4098\/2025\/02\/My-first-composition-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4098\/2025\/02\/My-first-composition-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4098\/2025\/02\/My-first-composition-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4098\/2025\/02\/My-first-composition-1-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Hi, class! This is my first original composition in Photoshop, though I used the program many years ago to edit family photos and create collages, instinctively learning the basic editing functions. This time, I experimented with two geometric shapes\u2014rectangles and triangles\u2014to create an abstract portrait of Jesus on the cross, using layer blending modes to add structure and achieve a Cubist aesthetic. This exercise helped me better understand complementary colors, though I still have much to learn about color logic when layering and blending. At first, I struggled to re-familiarize myself with the basics I had practically forgotten, but I really enjoyed the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, class! This is my first original composition in Photoshop, though I used the program many years ago to edit family photos and create collages, instinctively learning the basic editing functions. This time, I experimented with two geometric shapes\u2014rectangles and triangles\u2014to create an abstract portrait of Jesus on the cross, using layer blending modes to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/2025\/02\/02\/my-first-ps-abstract-composition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My first PS abstract composition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image","category-weekly-blog-post","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-100-spring-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}