Evelyn Wentlandt

🌺🦕⚡This first section is my favorite things.⚡🦕🌺

241023 My Favorite Things - Evelyn Wentlandt.mp4

Here are the headers for each category. I made these with Photoshop! ⬇️

🪐My favorite things🦖

🐕 Animals🦌

🚂 Places⛰️

🌈Colors🔵

🌏⛰️🌺Places🌺⛰️🌏

Chicago

One of the funnest places in Illinois. When we go to visit my grandparents, we usually take a day trip here. The restaurants are so good and have pizza and the famous sculpture, Cloud Gate (or the giant silver bean,) is in Chicago. If you go in the winter, it's right next to the most fun ice skating rinks ever. I had so much fun last time I went to Chicago.

Slovakia

I haven't actually been to Slovakia, fair enough, but I think it is one of the most gorgeous places on Earth. It is like something out of a fantasy novel, with all the castles and culture. There are a lot of outdoor markets in Slovakia with really good food and novelties. This is the nice part of Slovakia however, most of Eastern Europe is actually really distopian looking.

California

California is really popular for a reason. The beaches, the sunsets, the summer breeze, they're all so magical. I was there a few summers ago. The water at the La Jolla beach I went to was, surprisingly, very cold. My dad still jokes about moving there, considering how beautiful it was there. If you are at the boardwalk, you may even be lucky enough to see some REALLY cute seals resting on the shore.

🐞🐟🦈Animals🦈🐟🐞

🐶Borzoi🐶

'Borzoi' comes from a russian word meaning 'fast.' This fits the borzoi dog well, because they are agile and quick dogs with a silly elongated appearance. And yes, they are the "let me do it for you" dog breed!

🕊️Dove🕊️

I like doves because they are a Christian symbol of new beginnings, new things, and purity. They are graceful and beautiful and can be trained to be pretty amazing pets!

🦌Deer🦌

I love deers because when they are tiny little fawns, they're so adorable. I'm grateful to live in Texas considering how common it is too see does just out in people's yards! I'd like to take one home and keep it as a pet, but that's not what they were made to do.

🌈🌀Colors🌀🌈

Lavender grey

I'm not sure why, but this color reminds me of Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. She's my favorite character.

Dark blue

This color is like the ocean, and it's lovely and calming. It also happens to be my eye color. It's poetic and reassuring and just overall a beautiful color.

Pastel orange

Pastel orange reminds me of (obviously) oranges which are my absolute favorite fruit.

Here are a couple images that I might have used if they were compatible with the video. A few reasons I didn't choose these (which I would have because they're really nice pictures) is because they were too small. The images you choose have to be at least a resolution of 2560 by 1440. If it is smaller than it won't work. If it is bigger or that size, it might work but there are a few exceptions. If the thumbnail looks blurry and doesn't look clear when you zoom in, it won't work either. The right image will be equal or greater to 2560 by 1440 or bigger and sharp and clear. However, if it has an odd color that's fixable.

Each layer -notice how I titled each one with the header it was.

Some headers in the My Favorite Things video I created seem very simple... but do you know how I actually create them? It is actually somewhat complex! Each title was a different layer (shown to the left) and I used the gradient tool to create the backgrounds behind the text. A simple gradient on its own is what it looks like when two colors simply fade into one, but that would be too bland to add to the video. Instead, I used the difference mode on the gradient tool, which gives it a very interesting, almost web-like background by switching the contrast with each stroke.

Simple gradient

Difference mode gradient

Here's a few images I had as options but didn't use for My Favorite Things. They're really nice pretty images, but some weren't the right size (2560 by 1440) or just wouldn't have worked with the video.

Editing images in Photoshop

When I was choosing images to use in my 'My Favorite Things' video, something that happened a lot was I would find a beautiful image, but the color would look off as if there was a weird filter over that. However, Mr. Hicks taught us to edit the images using photoshop! Here's an example of before and after--

Here's before in the original image. As you can see, it's a gorgeous image (this is Slovakia) but the color seems off just a very small bit. Look around the edges of the white and orange castle's walls. The colors seem a little diluted.

Here is after editing it in Photoshop! You can barely tell there's a difference, but look at the clouds and trees. I edited them to make them more vibrant and warm using saturation and turning up the lightness to see it better.

This what the adjustment layer will look like. In simpler terms, hue is like warmth. Saturation is like how much color bleeds through (think of pressing a marker on a piece of white paper- the less you press, the less bleeds to the back and the more you press, the more it bleeds to the back. It is the same thing with saturation.) Lightness is how bright or dark you can make it.

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