Tuesday, September 30, 2008

T-shirt Design

Script of changes:

  1. Took pictures of some of my sheet music at home
  2. recolored it with adjustments to a reddish-pink hue
  3. I used various brushes and brush sizes in solid black for the pictures
  4. I took a picture of a paint splatter and put it on using quick-mask mode
  5. Finally I wrote various quotes and lines with the Text tool and changed the opacity

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Anti-Bullying T-shirt



  1. obtain image of heart.
  2. Use Burn Tool to darken the edges
  3. Use Text Tool to write in the words (size 32)
  4. Color the Background pink
  5. Smudge the edges
  6. merge all layers

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Handstand (Poster 2)

Poster 2
Photo courtesy of Photography folder

Duotone poster:
1. check image size
2. clean up image
3. grey scale
4. burn/dodge, filter- sharpen
5. Duplicate Layer
6. Add filter- Gaussian Blur (10)
7. erase to add in sharpness and detail
8. Flatten Image
9. Image- Mode- Duotone-Choose color orange-red

10. Image- Mode- RGB color
11. Filter- Render- Lighting effects (directional)
12. Rectangular selection (don't touch the sides)
13. select- feather (18)
14. select-inverse
15. Edit- Fill- Black

Cards (poster 1)



September 18, 2008

Image from Photography folder

Duotone poster:

  1. check image size
  2. clean up image
  3. grey scale
  4. burn/dodge, filter- sharpen
  5. Duplicate Layer
  6. Add filter- Gaussian Blur (20)
  7. erase to add in sharpness and detail
  8. Flatten Image
  9. Image- Mode- Duotone-Choose color (Red)
  10. Image- Mode- RGB color
  11. Filter- Render- Lighting effects (directional)
  12. Rectangular selection (don't touch the sides)
  13. select- feather (10)
  14. select-inverse
  15. Edit- Fill- Black

Friday, September 12, 2008

September 12/08

First Assignment:
  1. Get images (background planets etc.)
  2. I started with the picture of the boy. Quick Mask Mode select then copy paste it to new document and change the image size.
  3. Background (select background layer) Adjustments, change hue. Burn tool the sky for darker effects. Burn tool the boy's shadow. Lighten road lines with dodge.
  4. Go back to the other document. Quick mask mode select the moon. Adjust size. Change Hue. Copy to the background document. Add Filter (Lens Flare) Repeat steps for the other moons and Saturn. Change opacity.
  5. Quick mask mode select the pyramids. Change size. Change Hue. Repeat steps.
  6. Use assorted Brushes for the stars (Preferably Basic Brushes in various sizes)
  7. Final: Merge down all layers into one document. Then save.