(4/2) Digital Collage

Personally, I have little experience with Photoshop. After looking around the internet and watching some tutorials, I created this "colorful building". I used Google Images to source for these photographs and illustrations of government housing blocks (HDBs) and traditional shophouses which are in Singapore, where I am from. A little background: 80% of the population in Singapore lives in these HDB flats that are heavily subsidized by the government, and shophouses are a typical pre-war structure where families have their own shop on the first floor, and live upstairs. There is stigma in Singapore against living in these, but I actually find their architecture quite charming and wanted to up the vibrancy of these buildings. I decided to make my own colorful interpretation of "what it means to live in Singapore". During class, I struggled quite honestly to make just a singular rainbow: and decided to take the idea of a generic clipart rainbow and give it an organic, lighter touch. I layered, clone, played with opacity, imposed different filters, and even used some brush tools to give it a more dreamlike effect since this is my imagined landscape.
This is in line with my personal objective of being able to learn more about new technologies, to be honest I had to watch a tutorial to simply figure out how to place an external image from Google Images onto my photoshop piece. A lot of trail and error and experimenting, but I am surprised to find that it is possible to give a computer generated piece of art a more delicate look.