Winter Window Remix

Music was added to the winter window.

Starry Sky

I found a tutorial showing how to create a starry night in Photoshop. http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/starry-sky/. I took a day photo of a tree line and converted it to night then followed the steps in the tutorial. This was enjoyable and the only problem I ran into was when I tried flattening the psd. The image looked a little different. I redid the layer with the starry effect but used more blur and that seemed to solve the problem. Just for grins and giggles I added a shooting star.

3D Coat

This time I created a table in Lightwave and painted it using 3D Coat.  The textures came from photos I've taken over the last year.  The background was added in 3D Coat. The challenge was that the render on a Mac resulted in a blank image. I switched to a PC and then was able to render the image. The Macs at the college are not setup with the same software or versions of the software.

Radio Waves

Animated text done in After Effects using radio waves is featured in this short movie. I used Illustrator for the text and imported it into After Effects. The text is the name of my website. The background was done in Photoshop and imported in AE. Music was added in Premier Pro. I like the over all effect and the colors I used. This was a fun project.

Flash Cards

I've created four designs with very simple images for flash cards. These were created using Illustrator. The main focus is the message which should be easy to read and understandable. Nothing fancy was done for these. The instructor assigned four phrases to use for the flash cards. It wasn't the most exciting assignment but I think I did a good job and that the flash cards will be easy to understand.

Logo

My next assignment is creating a sticker. I thought I would use the logo I'm designing for promoting my services. There are two versions I'm mulling over. The one with the orange background and circle I will use for the sticker. The one with the star, I think, will be used for my website and advertising my services. It was fun creating the two versions of the logo and I seem to be going for simple designs lately. I'm not sure I'll use either one. Lots of times I'll design something, put it aside, then look at it later. Frequently, I'll come up with another idea. I may completely change the logo by the time I get to doing business cards and adding it to my website.

New and Improved SLAM

After some feed back about the vertical text being hard to read (and it was), I changed it to horizontal. Sometimes it doesn't pay to try to be clever in a design.

SLAM

SLAM is Pierce College's Student Literary Arts Magazine. I was to design two covers to be submitted to the magazine and used Photoshop for one design and Illustrator for the other. The last issue of SLAM had typewriters on the cover and I thought I'd step back in time and have a quill pen and ink. The Photoshop cover is from a bird's eye view of someone writing on paper.  I tried to make the figure androgynous with a hint of colonial times. The Illustrator cover has a limited palette. Both were fun to do. I also found a font called "Valley Forge" to use for the text in both designs.

Brushes in Illustrator

Two brushes were created in Illustrator. One is a scatter brush and the other is an art brush. The illustration I did using both brushes as well as standard brushes in Illustrator is a very freeform style. I was going for whimsy and a limited color palette.

Brushes for Photoshop

In this photo are two brushes I created in Photoshop. I decorated the basket and the wall with a flower brush and used a spirit brush for the stuff coming out of the basket. The spirit brush I created from a logo I designed for another assignment. Standard Photoshop brushes were used to create the counter top. I'm happy with the flower brush but the spirit brush didn't come out lighter than I expected.