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Here is the video to get you started: School Access, Public Access
Here is the photo to follow along, or you may use any photo you like: Break Apart Photo
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You Break Me Up!
Here is the video to get you started: School Access, Public Access
Here is the photo to follow along, or you may use any photo you like: Break Apart Photo
Board Book Remake with Photoshop
We have a beautiful little girl staying with us until her mother returns from deployment. I decided to make a board book for the baby (she is still a baby, relatively speaking) with photos of her mother.
Here is the first stage: Creating the Pages in Photoshop
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First I found a board book at the thrift store that had seen better days. This one,
in fact, was destined for the trash bin at the end of the week.
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Next I measured the dimensions.
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It turned out that this one was exactly
six inches square.
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Creating Professional Photo Pages
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Photoshop Elements
Did you know that Adobe makes a product similar to Photoshop, but more affordable? It's called Photoshop Elements. It's sort of like a combination of Photoshop and Lightroom, except instead of $600, it's under $100 (in fact, Amazon just dropped the price to $82.22.)
Also, Adobe offers a pay-as-you-go program as well. Sort of like leasing Photoshop.
Lastly, there is a free program called Gimp, which is like Photoshop but offers way, way, WAY less tools and filters and all that good stuff. But it's good for basic photo editing.
Student Showcase: Magazines
This was a fun optional project for students to just "play with Photoshop."
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Put Your Face on the Cover of a Magazine!
Ever wanted to be famous and appear on the cover of a magazine?
Here's your chance!
Valentine's Day--a Perfect Photoshop Opportunity
Challenge: Expand your skills!
In Photoshop 2nd semester this week, students will work on the Text Portrait Project. I have set aside the entire week for this project, because of the level of difficulty and the number of videos that accompany it. If you follow along with the videos using your own image, your success rate will be much higher than if you try to wing it. This is true of all our assignments, but this one in particular is a little tricky. To see examples, go to this link: Text Portraits
Introducing the Pen Tool
The Pen Tool is an exciting tool that will really enhance your Photoshop skills. It is, however, probably the hardest tool to master.
Da Font is a great site for fonts. It's a bit bulky to go through, but once you find a font you like, you are able to type out a word or phrase to see if you really want to use it before downloading it. I've downloaded a few from this site, but I've also just used it for taking a screenshot of the word or phrase I'm going to use, if it's just a one-time thing.
Take a look at Pinterest
Showcase your own work on Pinterest! Not only is it a place to look at the work of others, let others look at yours! Here's just one of my own boards, where I collect works for inspiration:
http://pinterest.com/3CraftySisters/designing-with-ink/
Designing for Real Life
Photoshop can be a great help when it comes to designing off-computer. The second picture is a mosaic I created over the summer. The first is the design I created to follow. Of course, the design was created in Photoshop.
View from the car
Layers Project Winners
Congratulations to the Layers Project Winners! You all did an awesome job.
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My Hardest Project to date
Taking 4 different photos and creating a family photo. I was only able to do this because all the photos were taken in the same light. The blond boy in the finished photo is actually pieced together using parts of him from several different photos--one of his arms is actually his brother's, lol.
All in all, not a bad day's work, even though it took several days to finish.
All in all, not a bad day's work, even though it took several days to finish.
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Congratulations Shannon!
I have to give a big shout out to Shannon S., who was in my web design class last year, and is in my Photoshop class this year. Shannon's website design was chosen (from all the other web design students) as the layout for the Arc of the Hill Country website. Shannon was honored at a recent Arc event.
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