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Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photoshop. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2009
New Header
As you can see, I've got the new header up for April and I'm playing more and more with photoshop. I had a lot of fun making this today after I came up with the idea. I pieced four separate images of Justin, Evie, me, and Chokydar together and added a unified background and some effects. Now here's the super clever part...watch for Justin to become less and less transparent as he gets closer to being home! I know. It's almost TOO clever.
Friday, March 27, 2009
In which I post another homework assignment from photoshop
I've been sliding into a dangerous mindset with my class lately. It happened the last time I took a class as well. I end up getting about halfway and suddenly it's all about having to do the work rather than wanting to. This is so toxic and ridiculous because I really really want to learn these programs--that's why I'm taking the class, obviously. A large part of it is my old neurosis popping up again: my perfectionist tendencies and my difficulty taking criticism. There is a discussion component to the class and I somehow always feel wrong when I pipe up.
Anyway, I'm glad to have gotten this done before the weekend starts. We're learning about effects and filters and manipulating the way layers interact. Also in this assignement we were supposed to use the history brush to take an element from our final design back to a previous state. In mine you can see that is the top lemon slice.
Anyway, I'm glad to have gotten this done before the weekend starts. We're learning about effects and filters and manipulating the way layers interact. Also in this assignement we were supposed to use the history brush to take an element from our final design back to a previous state. In mine you can see that is the top lemon slice.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
First Photoshop assignment
This week in class we shifted gears from Adobe Illustrator to Photoshop. As a beginner, I must say I find Photoshop pretty complex and slightly intimidating, but I know I'll learn. For this week's assignment we were supposed to find an old photo that needed work, scan it, and make adjustments. I was sort of limited by the photos I have on my hard drive, as most of our old family photos are at my parents' house. I ended up going with this photo of me--I'll have to ask my mom how old I am here. It's wild to think this will be Evie before long...
Here's the original photo:
And here it is after I adjusted it:
