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Non-Eurocentric definition - clear and concise definition, a good starting point Sam.

Urban background - Sam, this is a well laid out composition, the multi-layering really gives the image depth and you have chosen interesting buildings for your scene.

Fernando's art - Your image analysis for artistic content is well structured, with some really good details.

Artistic Experiments - Your experiments using both filters and colour saturation is really interesting Sam.  I can see that you had an idea of the aesthetic you wanted and you used varying degrees of modifications to achieve it.  This is a really good behaviour for artistic skill building.

Final version - Your final image is very successful Sam.  The landscape elements you chose to create your rural background shows your chosen country well.  There is a sense of scale because of the sharp shadows on the midground mountains, which I know you weren't happy with at the time.  The colour palette you have created is reminiscent of your chosen artist and I am very happy with your evaluatory statement.

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What I've learned and what I could improve upon

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What I've learned and what I could improve upon

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I feel like I've gotten considerably better at Photoshop since starting this project as before this I had close to no experience with the specific software although I have used similar programs. I now know how to blend images, effectively use different layers, add filters, change hue/saturation and fine tune an image with the smudge tool. In future I could work on learning how to do these things more efficiently and learn how to operate the software better. In terms of the art itself my ignorance with PS caused it to look different to my original idea of how it looked and I could work on learning how to colourize an image to a more detailed degree. Similarly I could still work on blending images as the Urban Background ended up being my least favourite part of the project because I couldn't properly fit together the images.

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This is very close to the final version but some of the edges aren't as sharp as I'd like.

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This is the final version of the background and although it doesn't look exactly how i wanted it to I'm still fairly happy with it. If I had more time I would go through the whole piece straightening the lines and filling the colours a bit more to match the artist I took inspiration from. The part I like most is the contrast between the thick pinkish red, purplish blue and the saturation of the whole thing. It looks a bit too bright for the artist I chose and I couldn't properly replicate his sort of shading but the colours are similar. In some ways I prefer Hue/Saturation Attempt 2 over the final product as rough edges give more of a painted effect as this version can seem a bit too smooth. One thing I maybe regret was putting the llama as it's sort of distracting and takes away from the more abstract style that I was going for also a couple of the areas aren't coloured exactly how I'd like them but all in all I'm fine with it turned out.

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This was my first attempt at adjusting the hue and saturation of the image to make it look closer to the art I had chosen. It ended up looking a bit to bright and some of the colours blend in ways that I don't really like.

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This was my attempt at trying to fine tune the contrast a bit, darkening the image and balancing a few of the colours to be more on line with the rest of the image.

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Dry brush takes away some of the detail and adds a watercolour looking effect but it doesn't seem to change it enough to fit with my art style.

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Similarly to dry brush palette knife adds a paint like effect to the whole piece merging a lot of colours and making it overall simpler. This is the filter that I ended up using as I thought it would be the best to go from this simple style to the thick colours the artist I chose.

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Poster edges adds a lot of rough outlines to the shapes giving it a grainy look. This roughness doesn't fit well with the art style I chose.

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Underpainting blurs the piece and makes it look like it was painted onto a canvas. This seems more like a blur effect with an added texture rather than a filter that would fit well as it seems to lose too much detail.

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Cutout makes the image look very cartoonish which doesn't look too bad overall but with the detailed ruins and other aspects of the piece it just doesn't fit with my aesthetic.

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I've used Photoshop to mesh together various Peru related images to form a rural background that I will use later for my game background.

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I've put lines over the top of my background to show the key shapes and lines of the image for future reference.

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"Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar (5 July 1925 – 9 October 2017) was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru. Szyszlo became a major force for artistic renewal in his country breaking new ground by expressing a Peruvian subject matter in a non-representational style. In 1962, he became a professor of art at Cornell University. In 1965 he became a visiting lecturer at Yale University."

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All of these pieces are formed around distinct shades of red, purple and blue but primarily the red. They all seem uniquely abstract as they use different refined shapes to create larger structures. The artist heavily uses shading to make each individual object in the paintings stand out and although there isn't much detail in the shapes themselves the way the colours blend in to each other ends up making it visually appealing.

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The heavy red hue of the art could make for an interesting and unique background as long as I make the foreground stand out. Landmarks made in this sort of style - like the tower in the second image - could add a lot to the atmosphere too.

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Non-eurocentric means anything outside of the eu/western area and usually focuses more on other cultures' styles and traditions.

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This was my attempt at an urban background made in the same way as the rural background however I had trouble finding enough Peru related images that I thought had the same theme and feel so it didn't end up looking that good in the end. I didn't spend as much time on this one and it shows as some of the images are blended together very poorly and the overall piece doesn't fit together all that well.

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I was asked to create a collage of non-Eurocentric images in PS so I searched for images from non-Eurocentric countries and put them together using layers and the transform tool.