Rachel Deodato - Meme

What I Did

I began by my assignment by searching for funny memes on google to get inspiration but couldn't seem to think of anything funny, original, and relatable. Then I started to ponder as to what my peers and I, as high point students, experience every day that's a struggle. This is where I came up with the idea to make a meme about HPU's parking. If you don't have a car on campus or haven't heard about a friend complaining about parking, it's almost impossible to find a spot! Hundreds of students have asked the university to add parking for students, however we see that there are just more graduate buildings taking over these parking lots instead. I choose a picture of a filled parking lot and a picture of Nido Quiben to mask on top of it. I then used the quick selection tool to edit out the surrounding area behind Nido. After this I created a layer mask in order to just have Nido overlaying the picture of the parking lot. As I looked closer I noticed how there were still left over scraps from the full picture of Nido. To get rid of these leftover scraps I used the lasso tool to edit it out. I then added contrast in order to make Nido stand out more then the background. Finally, I used the horizontal text tool to type the text and changed the text coloring to red to make it stand out more.

What I Learned 

When I began working on this assignment, I came to the realization that creating meme's are more difficult than they look. At first I couldn't think of anything that was both funny and relatable at the same time. You definitely have to have a great sense of humor if you make a lot of memes. Editing wise, I struggled on how to get rid of little pieces that were left behind after using the quick selection tool. I learned how to used the lasso tool in order to get rid of these pieces and make the masking more efficient.

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