This week we made gift cards to a store.  I made 4 different cards, each with a different theme. The very bottom card even has a pun "Takes notes at the Music Store". Get it? Take notes? Like music notes, and like writing notes. Though I guess you write both so... I also had a never before seen item. Very rare and an origional idea by Kevin Meyer, musical Lego bricks. To make all of these cards, we had to create brushes out of pictures. We just remove the background and then define it as a brush preset, then the brush is there for when ever we want to use it. It was a fairly easy project, but I am not very creative so it was hard for me.

Today we made brushes. We took a picture that we liked, took away the background, and made it into a brush. When you have a brush, you can draw with it and make beautiful pictures like you see above (ps, i think my magazine was better).

Over the past 3 days, I have been perfecting my Disney themed magazine cover.  We took our Disney mashup characters from the project before (we combined 2 Disney character i.e. Ariel and Nemo) and put them on the from of a magazine.  I spent a lot of time trying to get the color scheme right. I took some of the Nemo color and put it into the Diving part of the title.  The graident in the background is supposed to be the color of the water as you get deeper into the ocean.  I feel like this is one of the best projects I have made in this class!

Today and yesterday I worked on my latest piece. This is Ariel, from the Disney Mermaids, with a tail/fin/thing using the skin of Nemo from Finding Nemo.  It was one of the more challenging pieces because the Nemo skin was hard to find and the Ariel tail had lots of small details.  I like this piece very much and I would do another like it.

This is a Quagmire head I made out of text. We had a video to watch but all I looked at was the first 10 seconds. It is a fairly simple process of outlining a shape w/ a ink pen tool and then using the text tool to write.  The text follows the pen trail and then it becomes a shape.  For such and easy process, you can make many cool things.

Today we followed another video that Mr. Sands posted on Blackboard.  We had to use many tools on Photoshop to create the text and modify it.  One of the tools we used was the Horizontal Text Tool. It draws text that you can manipulate to make shapes like the Flag and Squeeze text.  I used the Mask Text Tool to take a picture and draw the text on top of the image, to take the picture from behind it.

This is Bruce Willis as a Stewie  from Family Guy.  I had to extend his head out and fill in his ears.  I found a picture of the clothes that Stewie wears on the internet, so I put his head on those.  Just like Stewie, I gave Bruce the outline of his head in black and a few strands of hair.

This is a bald Tina Turner.  I tried to make her look like Chuckie from the Rugrats. I had to screw with her head and make it the shape of Tommy's.  I even drew a little bit of hair on her head to be just like Tommy.

Today we did more blemish removal. I think that I did an ok job but may have been able to do something with the top woman's hair.  The bottom girl is blemish free though!