CLipping mask

BEHOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My Clipping mask!
At first with this project i was really lost, like i had no idea what to do... then i realized there was a tutorial for it and boom! got it done. This was fairly simple, first you need a back ground (i used pictures) then you need to get a text ( Freshman Year) Afterwards you drag the background layer(s) above the text and with them selected right click >create clipping mask then you are done. Add stroke if needed if the text is hard to see.

Tape

Original image

Tape

Finished image

The tape part was super easy, you will make a rectangle with the marquee tool, then fill it with  (D3A537)

Then grab a textured brush and add a few strokes of (DCB965)

Then get a different textured brush and add (A9883A)

Afterwards get the eraser tool and get some textures and get rid of the sides and make it look rough so it looks real. then copy and paste, then boom! you got tape

Page Curl effect

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After

This Process was rather easy really, there was not anything you had to modify to change the look of the picture unless you felt the need to. First we made a rectangle with the Marquee tool in the bottom right hand side, then gave it a gradient of black and white. Afterwards  Edit>Transform>Warp then a grid will pop up. Drag the corner to the middle of the image. After that my friend you is done!!

Colonge Add

FINISHED PRODUCT

                                                                     Images Used
This is the cologne project, i wanted to do something cool/manly so i used a picture of me with a cool hat i found when i went to an Astros game. Then after i used the quick selection tool to get rid of the background for that rather dashing picture of me, i used the healing brush tool to fix up some spots on my jacket because there were white spots on it and no mi gusta white spots. Afterwords i went of Google images and typed in cologne and found the really cool grenade bottles. For the Font it wasn't to hard i just typed it found a really cool font, then grabed the eye dropper tool and took a part of the shirt under my jacket then added it to my font, then gave the text a slight outer shadow.

High pass

AFTER

BEFORE

This was the high pass effect, What this does is raise the overall quality of the picture (lighting, edges, tones, softnees/hardness)  the steps are really simple and easy to follow, if you cant well.... tough nibblets. First you have to copy the orig. image then lock the layer so you don't mess anything up with your dirty little mitts. then on the 2nd layer change layer mode to overlay, then go to filter>other>high pass then adjust the dial to what ever you are pleased with. (optional) change the 2nd layers opacity if needed.

Bring color back into the picture

AFTER

Before

This is the bringing color into the picture tutorial,

First you have to have to copy the original image so we don't mess up the original then lock the layer.

Then you select the copied layer and go to image>adjustments>desaturate 

After your done with that you go to the history brush, and go over the parts of the picture you want there to be color.

This was a really easy tutorial, good to learn and get really quick.

After

Before

                                           this is the blur effect, it's not really the greatest for this picture because the background is already blurry. But i did  it anyway. it wasn't very hard i thought it was rather simple and easy to use tool quickly learn and get under my belt.

After

Before

This is the sepia tone effect. This effect was every easy and actually pretty simple all i did was desaturate
the picture then add more yellow and red to the over all picture. this Effect would be help full when trying to make a old vintage picture.

Photo FACE

 

FINISHED



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I Really enjoyed this project, i used may tools such as the healing brush for the background to get rid of unwanted distractions and other stuff. I also used the healing brush to fix or get rid of my scares and blemishes that i had on my face.Then i used it to get rid of any wrinkles i had on my face (excluding the forehead).  After the Healing brush i used the Brush tool to add Highlights to my hair and change the color of my eye brows. Then i changed the color of my eyes.

Nip Tuck

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BEFORE
                             This is the Nip tuck tutorial  i actually found this very useful i had no idea you could select a single part and separate it from the over all image and modify it without having to risk changing the other parts of the image. Once again we used the healing brush which is pretty cool because i'm starting to really enjoy this tool.

Wrinkles

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BEFORE

This is the wrinkles tutorial, I used the healing brush for this, i had to select a good part of her face and used it to get rid of the wrinkles on her face. This concept was not very hard to master/get down because it is really simple. other than that i thought it was a pretty neat thing to get under my belt.

Change hair color

AFTER

                                                                            BEFORE
To change this lady's hair color... i really expected it to be a whole lot harder but as it turns out it was actually pretty easy. The biggest mistake i made was in the very beginning was supposed to select the brush tool and instead i selected the healing brush so when i switched to quick mask mode the red line would not stay. other than that i fixed it and went to edit>adjustments> hue and saturation then i was finished.

Skin tone

After

Before

This tutorial was simple.... almost to easy. all you had to do was use the magic wand tool and select the problem area on the persons face and then take the eye droper tool and select a good color from the surrounding area. then make a new layer and go to fill and change the fill to color. then step back to admire this guys BEAUTIFUL FACE!!!!!!!!!!!
this was a easy tutorial.

eye make up

After

Before

This tutorial was actually pretty easy, i actually enjoyed it. we used 3 layers one for each one of the colors i used. The first layer i used (eye lid) i had to chance the opacity to 46 but then cody said i had to change the layer mode to soft color and it turned out better than changing the opacity. i repeated this step for the other 2 layers . other than that there was no problems. i used a brush size of 12 px even though the tutorial asked for 15px

Healing brush/ Blemishes and acne

Finished product

Original 

I really enjoyed this project, i felt that the steps used and demonstrated in this project was very straight forward, simple, and easy to remember. From learning how to used this brush and technique i will defiantly use this in my personal works and when i mess around with photo shop in my free time. i noticed if you go over a certain spot with the brush enough it will grab a piece of the image not located around that spot and place it there.

Movie poster

Tutorial link : http://designinstruct.com/digital-art/make-a-vintage-planetary-landscape-poster-in-photoshop/

This is the my movie poster, i really liked this project but i felt that the tutorial was a little vague at times when it came to making the moon and the clouds. Another problem I encountered while working on this project was giving the whole image a glowing hue.. I do not know what it was about it i just could not do it like it was presented to me. But i will defiantly take the steps on how I took a mountainous picture and put it a separate picture with other projects and doodles that i decide on doing at mi casa.  

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Fallen skateboards

this was probably my favorite project so far because i actually knew what i wanted to do and didn't waste time just messing with stuff. My product was skateboards obviously and i wanted to reach out to more of the  city skaters, knowing that i put a picture of a city over view (city) and a really cool trick. And so since skateboarding is an outdoor activity i wanted to put the perfect skate weather to try to bring the feel of excitement and relaxation while still trying to get you to buy a Fallen board.
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this project was really hard, i did not enjoy it at all

This is my contrast project, i chose a band called Two Door Cinema Club because they are just an awesome band. for the grunged part of the project, i basically followed the steps for the previous project. i didn't differ much from the steps other than i tried to emphasized there clothing. and for the Text Modification i didn't get to creative  i just added a gradient overlay and added a inner shadow, made it black and changed the angle to -90

this is the grunge project, i somewhat enjoyed this project. i wasn't sure what do on some of the steps but i did my best, i kind of like the way it turned out, but there's always room for improvement! i liked working with the opacity tool and the different style of brushes. except for the how many times he said we had to stamp the copy! other than that i enjoyed it, hope its not to horrible.

this is my type modification project, i really enjoyed this project because i got to work with neon colors and just have a really good time. it wasn't really hard except for the fact that i should have managed my time better.

i tried to find the original image in Google images but i couldn't find it /:
this project was actually really easy, i very much enjoyed it. I feel like i learned allot i thought this project would take a few day but i was surprised. I learned allot more about how you could use noise in pictures, and a little more about hue and saturation because even though i know what they do I still have a little trouble  with how and when it should be used. Overall i very much enjoyed this project.

this is the Wonderful iPod Matthew, this wasn't really a hard project we simply chose a picture of us then selected the background with the magic wand/quick selection tool then changed the background to a random   solid color. Then changed the image of me to a solid black, added a picture the back of a iPod because it looks like im looking at it, then i drew the ear buds then went over the bottom of the iPod with black to make it seem like im holding it rather than it be floating in mid air.

Lochness MONSTER!!!!!!

this is my original pruduct with the paint brush tool, I really enjoyed this project because i really like to draw. i loved the opacity tool, i used it to put the green in the water so you could see the monster but so it would look some what realistic. i used a couple of brushes,i really liked when i zoomed in around 200% in and used the 2-4 px brush.

Thios is the type modification project, not my best work i messed up on the background, i wanted to change the opasity so it would make it feel like it was more in the ocean but that didn't help. I actually learned alot on this project like how to use the blending options for the letters and how to make them look pretty sweet. other than that the only real problem i encountertd was actually reading the instructions they were confusing in the begining but then they became clearer.