Media 202 Photoshop Page 2
Assignment: Create a print ad with layers, selections, and masks.
The camera is an example of what we were supposed to produce.
I picked Baldwin pianos for my project because Mom always said it's easy to sell a product if you believe in it yourself.
I used the pen tool for all the outlines. Pen tool makes superior outlines! It's a huge improvement over the way I was doing things before.
Please note there's no reflection of legs in the original, but there is in my version! I had to do each leg separately.
So there's my finished advertising for a product I believe in.
And another one, with another great reflection :-)
Week 6 - Darkroom Effects
Converting color to Black and White. It's not just converting to grayscale, there's more control. Here's two different examples.
There it is with yellows brightened and blues darkened.
There's yellows darkened and blues lightened.
Split Color Toning. A photo converted to grayscale, then the shadows and highlights colorized via an adjustment layer.
Adding Polaroid Border, just in case you ever get nostalgic.
Soft Focus. Gaussian blur applied to a copy of the layer, then layer mode changed to Lighten. That came out so pretty!
Week 7 - Filters and Actions Blur filter.
I used three Radial blurs to make the gears move.
Motion blur makes the fingers get busy! This poor typist must be using Qwerty, the keyboard from hell. Try Colemak for half the finger motion.
Added Lens Flare to the mountain.
That was an assignment. Arm picture was provided by the teacher. I don't approve of messing with this guy's skin, but I figured if I had to give him a tattoo I might as well make it a good one.
I spent like an hour skinnifying this plus-size model with the Liquify Tool, then read the assignment again and realized the Liquify assignment was actually more specific.
The model was beautiful just the way she was, and putting a goofy frame on Leighton is definitely gilding the lily. Oh well, getting A's is the idea here :-)
Week 8 - Multimedia Presentation
Using a program like Photostory or Windows Movie Maker to make a slideshow with music about a global issue, chosen from a list. I liked the "Fabricating Incidents to Start Wars" topic and immediately thought of the WTC, plunged in with enthusiasm, and after several days of all my available time, had gathered a quarter of the material I would need for half my outline and had barely started on the documentation. Couldn't do anything over the weekend, so the morning before the project was due I produced this instead. This took two articles and two hours. Here we go. The real title of this project is "Having Mercy on Myself, or Knowing My Limitations" :-)
I know the text goes by too fast in a couple places. I should have made a longer frame rate for those frames to allow time to read. I could go back and change that, but I might as well have some more mercy on myself. If you ever HIRE me to create a video for you, I will change each frame time to allow enough time for reading :-)
But about the WTC, I can't go without sharing an amazing video somebody provided me: Second Tallest Building Ever Imploded and some good further reading I found: link, link, link and link
Week 9 - Web Shapes and Buttons
Making Custom Shapes using Paths and Text on a Path. This would have been easier to do in Illustrator :-)
Assignment was for shapes and paths, not to make an airshow poster. I just kinda arranged my project that way.
I wasn't sure the poster had enough text on a pathiness so I did another picture with more of it.
And there are my web icons... aviation themed!
Week 10 - Slicing and Photoshop Web Interface Design
Using Photoshop to output a photo-based webpage with buttons.
I did this one to match the gardening project video. I drew the carrots and rocks with my pen tablet. It was so quick that way!
Then I tried to make one that's more professional. I accept that to be "professional" means doing things differently from the way I naturally do it which is very girly and blue and green. So here's a project with colors I don't like very much :-)
And two other ideas I didn't use that are perfectly ME!
