Sequential Images Class Practice

 
This week in class I created some sequential images, we were allowed to go around campus for thirty minutes to find an interesting scenario to capture for our photo sequence. Me and my group decided to go to the river on the edge of campus, since it is usually crowded with birds. We all took different photos for our own sequences at the river to capture as much movement as possible. It was a very cloudy and cold day, so the lighting was not as interesting or vibrant as I would have liked it to be. 

Shown below are the contact sheets of the photos that I took, I used a free contact sheet generator online to generate the contact sheets. All my photos were taken with the camera on my iPhone 14 Pro and converted into JPEG formatted images. 

I opened Pixlr E and selected 'File' in the top menu and then I clicked on 'New Image'. Doing this opened a dialog box, where I chose 'Print' in the top menu and clicked A3 as my canvas size. I came up with a title and wrote it in the box on the right side as my file name. I then clicked on 'Background' and chose a white colour for my canvas background. My canvas has showed up on Pixlr and I decided to keep it in Portrait Mode, which was the default setting for this A3 canvas, because the photos I selected came in sets of two and one. I found that keeping the canvas in portrait mode complimented my sequence more because of the sets. My next step in Pixlr was to choose the images from my desktop, the photos need to be in a JPEG or PNG format to make them compatible with Pixlr. In the top menu I clicked on 'File' and selected 'Open Image'. I chose the five images that I wanted to use for my sequence and opened them, Pixlr gave me an option in what format I wanted to open my images and I chose the Full HD format. The images then opened in Pixlr individually. For each image I clicked on the image tab and checked if the image was the correct quality for my final selection of photos, I then clicked on 'Select' in the top menu and chose 'Select All', after that I clicked on 'Edit' in the top menu and chose 'Copy'. After this I went back to my canvas and went to 'Edit' in the top menu, where I chose 'Paste' to make my image show up on my canvas. I went through the same steps for all my images. After finishing pasting all my images in my canvas, I clicked on the 'Arrange' tool in the menu on the left. I clicked on my images and used the transform tools on the edges to make my images smaller, then I arranged the images on my canvas in the order I wanted them to be in. After arranging all the images on my canvas, I clicked on the 'Text' tool in the left hand menu and dragged my mouse over my canvas to create a text box, this created a new layer for the text. Next I clicked on the 'Arrange' tool and moved the text box to its correct place, then I clicked on the 'Text' tool again to use its tools and settings at the top, just below the top menu. I double clicked the existing text and wrote my own title and name, I then changed the text colour to black using the 'Fill' tool in the top menu for 'Text' and changed the Font to 'Trebuchet MS' with its size as 96. With the format tool I changed the alignment of the text to 'Align left'. For my last steps I clicked on the 'Arrange' tool again and checked if the images and text lined up correctly by using the grid lines that show up when aligning images. Then I clicked on 'File' in the top menu and chose 'Export', which gave me the option to quick export the image or the layers as PNG, I chose to quick export the image as PNG and saved it to the correct folder. The finished sequence is posted below.

I enjoyed doing this little project as my first task of this term, it was nice that we got to go outside for a bit to observe life around the DMU campus. I personally really enjoyed watching the pigeons interact with each other, it seemed like they all had their own personalities. I wish I had edited my photos a little bit before making them into a sequence, I could have blurred the background a bit more to put the full focus on the pigeons.