Sorry I do not have an image for this update, but I forgot to take a picture before I left school. I have made progress since the last update, and I only need to do about 2/3 of the work that I needed to do after last time. This may be partially due to me helping out the group project occurring at my table, in which they took a plaster hand and poured various colors of paint on it (left).
In my own project, I solved many problems, which is sort of it's own silver lining because this unit was about solving problems. The most prominent example would be, as I have stated earlier, people tearing up my project. I solved this by, rather than keeping my project on the wall where it would eventually hang, I now store the mosaic rolled up in a corner of the classroom. Another problem I faced was a much larger color palliate on the template than I had planned on using. I had planned on only using yellow, green, pink, purple and blue, as those are the colors that sticky notes come in. Unfortunately, I was unable to determine how to restrict the colors in Photoshop when I was making the template. (I used gradient map, then input the colors of the sticky notes. If you know a better way to do this, please post in the comments below.)
I feel that retrying my mosaic after what happened last time was a risky move, after seeing it form poorly the first time. Although I was unsure I knew what I was doing even the second time, I did not want to give up, so I kept trying. This time, I took a totally new approach to the project, putting down the squares bit by bit and rolling up the project, so it wouldn't be torn down. I also used rulers and spare notes to count out the space between notes, rather than just going by the paper's border. I think the biggest change, though, is that I check off a box on the template for each square I put down so that I know what I have and haven't done. I feel that these strategies, all of which have paid off, will make my work much more efficient and I should finish fairly soon.
In my own project, I solved many problems, which is sort of it's own silver lining because this unit was about solving problems. The most prominent example would be, as I have stated earlier, people tearing up my project. I solved this by, rather than keeping my project on the wall where it would eventually hang, I now store the mosaic rolled up in a corner of the classroom. Another problem I faced was a much larger color palliate on the template than I had planned on using. I had planned on only using yellow, green, pink, purple and blue, as those are the colors that sticky notes come in. Unfortunately, I was unable to determine how to restrict the colors in Photoshop when I was making the template. (I used gradient map, then input the colors of the sticky notes. If you know a better way to do this, please post in the comments below.)
I feel that retrying my mosaic after what happened last time was a risky move, after seeing it form poorly the first time. Although I was unsure I knew what I was doing even the second time, I did not want to give up, so I kept trying. This time, I took a totally new approach to the project, putting down the squares bit by bit and rolling up the project, so it wouldn't be torn down. I also used rulers and spare notes to count out the space between notes, rather than just going by the paper's border. I think the biggest change, though, is that I check off a box on the template for each square I put down so that I know what I have and haven't done. I feel that these strategies, all of which have paid off, will make my work much more efficient and I should finish fairly soon.