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

On pretty days, Seattle residents say "the mountain is out." they are referring to Mount Ranier. Just about every day we've been here, this has been our view from the car.

A Layers project by Nisa S.

Photoshop 2 Work

Justin, 2nd Period:  MacMiller

Emily, 2nd Period:  Pixel

Layers Project Winners

Congratulations to the Layers Project Winners!  You all did an awesome job.

Kaylee B.

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.

Folder Design Class Winners

Students in Photoshop are keeping a folder in which they will store their agenda, notes on shortcuts, common procedures, and their projects.  Students were required to "design" their covers with whatever means they wanted, then members of each class voted on a "class favorite."  Below are the winners for each class.  Great job, guys!

Photoshop 2 Work

I have a handful of Photoshop 2 students in each class.  Photoshop 2 students have completed a full year of Photoshop 1, and must be proven self-starters and be able to work independently.  Photoshop 2 students are enrolled during the same class periods as Photoshop 1, and each class has from 1 to 3 PS2 students.

Here are some of the projects these students are working on:

World Mosaic by Aaron L.

Finding Don

So I finally decided on a Don, and started creating the parts in Photoshop.  Here are a few screenshots.

All paths drawn and inked in.

Deciding on the design

Having finally decided on my subject, I did a few searches and came up with some possibilities:

A.  Using a sillouette would make the job infinitely easier, and I like the middle and lower ones.

B.  This one actually uses one from the previous pic, but adds a nice background that would be easy to recreate.

What I did (and what I'm still doing) over the summer

This summer I had on my list two major projects:

tile front porch and

create a kitchen cart out of a bunch of junk.

Testing out new blogger presets.

Had to add a picture.