A mandala is a circle made up of triangular cut outs of a photograph that are transformed either vertically or horizontally to come together to make a circle. First, I opened the mandala template in the period 5 folder in the common drive, then I used the magic wand tool to select the top left triangle and then dragged the tab out. Then I chose a photo from iPhoto and dragged the triangle over a part of the photo I wanted and copy and pasted it to the template. Then I duplicated the layer and flipped it horizontally and placed it right next to the first one and merged the layers. I continued this pattern until I had a full circle, merged all the layers, and saved it as a jpg. I really liked this project because it was easy to catch on to and I love the cool patterns you can make. If I did it over again, I would invert the colors to all my photos to make the colors and patterns even cooler.
A tessellation is an arrangement of the same continuous photo flipped horizontally and vertically to create a pattern. First I would make my eight inch template with the guide lines, and then chose a photo from iPhoto to use. Then I used the crop tool to get a 4inch by 4inch/2inch by 2inch/1inch by 1inch square, and then I added it to the top left space on my template to start flipping the photos to make my design. I continued the steps until I had a full template and then saved it as a jpg. What I really liked about making them is how nice and colorful they came out. My favorite out of all of them is the one with the yellow flowers because of its bright vibrant yellow with the dark background. I struggled with the lining up of the photos so it wouldn't have white lines.
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