In assignment 11 (Flyer from scratch of "Club Flyer") I had to use Adobe Photoshop to make a flier of a club that I am a part of. I had to do so by applying my knowledge and experience with previous assignments such as (7-9). First, I opened a new document that was 5"x7" and then I went to layer and clicked new fill layer>gradient. I set up the gradient I wanted the way I wanted it to appear. I then added a few texts that explained the 5W's of the flier. For the title of the flier I did a photo-filled effect, and also did plastic texture effect and glass effect for other texts. I added two pictures to represent the club (Bowling) and saved my work as .psd and .jpeg.
In assignment 12 (Adding Texture via layers) I had to use Adobe Photoshop again, but this time I had to add a texture layer to a dress. First, I went to Google and found a picture of a dress. Then, I found a picture of a pattern/texture. Once doing so, I saved them and opened up the picture of the dress in Photoshop. I then followed the steps provided to me. Then, I made the canvas size larger and pasted the original picture of the dress next to the new one and pasted the pattern/texture I used in between the other two pictures. After I finished my work I saved it as .psd and .jpeg.
In order to do assignment 13 (Change one thing Poster from NYC Food Bank) I had to use the application Adobe Photoshop. First, I opened a new document. I then applied a gradient of my choice as shown above as my background. I then opened up a picture of an oven with cookies being baked on a tray. I then typed "Don't be shy, just bake a slice!" and placed it to the left of the picture. Next, I typed " Eat a slice of tomato now and have energy to walk a mile later" and placed it below the picture. After that, I typed " Don't change your life. Change one thing. Learn more at EATWISETEENS.ORG" below the previous text. Right below that on the right side I typed "#change one thing." On the bottom left corner, I placed the logo of the NYC food bank and added an outer glow effect to it. To the right of it, I typed in "The NYC FOOD BANK LOGO was used safely for educational purposes. The Copy Right Infringement was not intended. In the picture, there were cookies so I replaced them with tomatoes by using magnetic lasso to select them, cut them out and then placing a copy of a tomato on each cookie. Once doing so, I added an outer glow effect to the picture and saved my work as .jpg and .psd.
Assignment 14 (Jack O' Lantern) was fun and easy. In order to do this, I opened a new document in Adobe Photoshop with the size of 1280px by 1024px in RGB color mode at a resolution of 72pixels/inch. Once doing so, I painted the new background layer black with a paint bucket and a picture of a pumpkin. I removed the background by using the magnetic lasso. I inserted it on a new layer and added a layer style described in the website: http://designstacks.net/happy-halloween-ideas. With the pen tool set to drawing mode on shape layers in the option bar, I cut out some eyes, eyebrows, nose and a mouth. I then added the layer styles described in the website to all the shapes that I had now created. Afterwards, I chose Curlz MT font and an orange like color and typed in the words "THINK HALLOWEEN 2014." I then saved my work as .jpg and .psd.
Assignment 15 (Creating a "Painted" effect on wall) was believe it or not simple and easy. In order to do it, I had to use the application Adobe Photoshop. Once doing so, I opened a picture of a brick and another picture of a flag that I planned on using. I then selected and copied the image of the flag and pasted it on the picture of the brick wall. After that, I changed the blending mode from normal to hard light for the flag layer. I then selected the Brick Layer and hit CTRL+J to duplicate the layer. Afterwards, I moved the layer above the flag layer and hit CTRL+SHIFT+U to desaturate it. Next, with the cpoied layer still selected I went to filter>blur>gaussian blur. Then in the blur box, I entered 1px for the amount of blur I wanted. The next step was to hit SHIFT+CTRL+S to save the displacement created. Then, select the flag layer and click fliter>distort>displace. In the displacement dialog box I entered 6 for the horizontal and vertical scale and select the displacement map from earlier. Then select the Brick layer and in the Blending options I chose Hard Light and I set the opacity to 80%.
Assignment 15b (Creating a "Painted" effect on face) was believe it or not simple and easy. In order to do it, I had to use the application Adobe Photoshop. Once doing so, I opened a picture of myself and another picture of a flag that I planned on using. I then selected and copied the image of the flag and pasted it on the picture of myself. After that, I changed the blending mode from normal to hard light for the flag layer. I then selected the "My Pic" layer and hit CTRL+J to duplicate the layer. Afterwards, I moved the layer above the flag layer and hit CTRL+SHIFT+U to desaturate it. Next, with the copied layer still selected I went to filter>blur>Gaussian blur. Then in the blur box, I entered 1px for the amount of blur I wanted. The next step was to hit SHIFT+CTRL+S to save the displacement created. Then, select the flag layer and click filter>distort>displace. In the displacement dialog box I entered 6 for the horizontal and vertical scale and select the displacement map from earlier. Then select the "My Pic" layer and in the Blending options I chose Hard Light and I set the opacity to 80%.
Assignment 16 (Smart Filtering with Motion Blur) as shown above was one of the quickest and easiest assignments of the 2nd marking period so far. In order to do this, I had to use Adobe Photoshop. In the application, I had to open up the picture of the cheetah running as a smart object (click on file and go down the options). I then applied a filter to the smart object: filter>blur>motion blur (enter -8 for angle and 25 for distance in the settings). After doing so, I added another filter: filter>noise>median, however I turned the visibility off because I did not like the way the picture appeared. In other words, I only used the first filter rather than both. I then clicked the mask thumbnail and brush tool (soft edge brush). With the foreground color set to black, I painted over the cheetah so it won't be blurred. Once doing so, I saved my work as .psd and .jpg.
Assignment 17 (Quick Mask) was quite simple and straight forward. In order to do this, you had to use the application Adobe Photoshop. First, I found a picture of any person I wanted to work with on Google images and saved it. I then opened up the picture in Photoshop. I then clicked the zoom tool and enlarged the eyes area since it was the area I wanted to work on. I set the foreground color to white and the background color to black. Next, I clicked the the quick mask mode button and then the brush tool. Then, I painted over the girl's pupils with a selected brush size of my choice and a red translucent mask appeared above it. Afterwards, I turned off quick mask mode, pressed select and then inverse. Then with the paint bucket, I painted the girl's eyes blue. In the layers section, I changed the setting of normal to overlay to make it more realistic. Once doing so, I saved my work as .psd and.jpg.
Assignment 18 (Soft Filtering Skin tones) similarly to 17 was quick and simple. First, I opened up a picture (of a random person I found on Google images) in Adobe Photoshop. I then clicked and dragged the background layer over the new layer and clicked filter. Once clicking on filter I clicked convert for smart filters and pressed ok. I then clicked filter again and selected blur and then Gaussian blur and set the radius slider to 5. I then changed the option from normal to screen in the layers section and then added a layer mask. Next, I clicked the brush tool, chose a soft-edged brush and clicked on the airbrush thumbnail. I then changed the opacity to 40% (top tool bar) and then painted over the eyes, the mouth, the hair and the background leaving only the face and neck glowing. In the layers section, I changed the opacity to 70% to change the brightness. I saved my work as .psd and .jpg.
Photoshop Takeaway
Assignment #: What I learned......
#18: In this not so lengthy assignment, I learned how to make the face appear with a glowing effect by using the Convert for Smart Filters mode.
#17: With this assignment I was able to learn how to use Quick Mask to ultimately change a feature of the picture. For example, I changed a girl's eyes from brown to blue.
#16: In this assignment I learned how to use smart filters
to make an image appear blurry in area of my choice.
#15b: I learned how to make a picture appear blurry by selecting filter>blur>Gaussian blur.
#15b: I learned how to make a picture appear blurry by selecting filter>blur>Gaussian blur.
#15a: I learned how to desaturate a picture by pressing
CTRL+SHIFT+U, which ultimately makes the picture grey.
#14: For this assignment, I learned how to remove certain parts
of an image by using filter>extract.
#13: In this assignment, I was taught how to use a layer
style to make an outer glowing effect for a picture.
#12: I learned how to copy merge by using SHIFT+CTRL+C.
#11: I learned how to use the blending options and the
gradient tool together to make a flier.
#10: I learned how to use the blending options (drop and inner
shadow, bevel and emboss) to make a crazy effect.
#9: I learned how to use the blending options (drop and inner
shadow, outer and inner glow, bevel and emboss, contour, satin, color overlay
and stroke) to make a plastic-texture effect.
#8: I learned how to use blending options (drop and inner shadow, stroke, and bevel and emboss) to make a photo-filled text effect.
#7: In this assignment, I learned how to use blending options (drop and inner shadow, outer and inner glow, bevel and emboss, contour and color overlay) to make a glass effect.
#8: I learned how to use blending options (drop and inner shadow, stroke, and bevel and emboss) to make a photo-filled text effect.
#7: In this assignment, I learned how to use blending options (drop and inner shadow, outer and inner glow, bevel and emboss, contour and color overlay) to make a glass effect.
#6c: I learned how to use filters and blending options to
create a rainbow color stripes as my background.
#6b: I learned how to use the gradient tools and the different
stamps to create a gradient picture.
#6a: For this assignment, I was able to learn how to use the gradient tool to make shapes and make my own picture.
#5c: I learned how to use the magnetic lasso tool to select certain parts of an image.
#6a: For this assignment, I was able to learn how to use the gradient tool to make shapes and make my own picture.
#5c: I learned how to use the magnetic lasso tool to select certain parts of an image.
#5b: I learned how to use the paint bucket tool to paint
selected areas of my choice.
#5a: I learned how to use the opacity option to make images,
etc., appear a certain way (i.e. the amount of visibility/translucency of the
image shown).
#4: For this assignment, I was able to learn how to use layers to combine more than one thing as one.
#3: In this particular assignment, I was able to learn how to use filters to give off different effects of a picture.
#4: For this assignment, I was able to learn how to use layers to combine more than one thing as one.
#3: In this particular assignment, I was able to learn how to use filters to give off different effects of a picture.
Assignment 19 (USB Drive) was different from all the rest due to the fact that I used the application Adobe Illustrator rather than Adobe Photoshop this time. First, I created a new document o 550 x 550 px and then picked up the Rectangle Tool (M) and clicked on the page. I input the values 175 px for width and 300 px for height in the area indicated. I then selected the rectangle and clicked the button beside the align controls located on top of the page and selected "Align to Artboard" option. I clicked the "Horizontal Align Center" and "Vertical Align Center" buttons. To create the bottom part of the image I selected the Ellipse Tool (L), clicked anywhere on the screen and set the width to 175px and the height to 50px. In order to align the ellipse to the rectangle, I had to select View and then Smart Guides. Using the Selection Tool (V), I dragged the bottom of the rectangle until two green smart guides (lines) appeared. Using "Pathfinder" I selected both shapes. To fill in the shape, I selected it, opened the gradient window and applied the gradient to the shape and followed the instructions given to me in the website: http://www.tutorialboard.net/create-realistic-pendriveas-adobe-illustrator. Once doing so, I set the stroke to none and using the Rectangle Tool, I drew two more rectangles with a size of 158 x 12px as the first one and 118 x 8px for the second one. I then clicked effects>warp>arc and set the vertical distortion to 10% and applied it to both rectangles. For the most part, I continued using the gradient tool, the shape tool and the stroke tool. Once completing my work, I saved it as .AI and .PDF.
Assignment 20 (Wireless Phone Test): In order to do this assignment, I needed to use the application Adobe Illustrator. However, this was a lot more complicated than all the other assignments I had previously. This was mainly because I was not all to familiar with the application, especially since I had only used it for one other assignment. Overall, I had to use the shape tool to create shapes for the phone such as the buttons, To make layers of a particular shape, I had to click object>path>offset path. Other tools I had to use for this test was the gradient tool, stroke tool and even pathfinder.
COMPARING and CONTRASTING Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
Although both of these applications are quite different, they still have similar features. For example, they both use the stroke tool, gradient tool and the text tool. In the Illustrator however, you could options such as pathfinder. Basically, Photoshop mainly revolves around the use of images and making creative projects out of the picture (such as filtering and even making people appear a certain way-making a person's face appear brighter). On the other hand, Illustrator is mainly for the purpose of creating your own image/picture such as a USB flash drive, a wireless phone or even a living room.
