8/15/013Because of a confusing yesterday this was my first day of class. I created all the pages for my website and the website itself. I was unable to add photos today because I ran out of time. I intend to catch up to the rest of my class tomorrow by adding all the necessary pictures to my website. This is also my first blog of what will certainly be many.\
8/16/013
Today we went over basic photo shop today. In class we briefly went over the various tools that Photoshop cs3 provides. The various brushes that the program provides were gone over much more thoroughly then the others. We learned how to use ctrl +J to copy various thing in to new layers as well as Ctrl + Z to undo any mistakes that we may make. we also learned how to make a brush in photo shop by selecting an image that you have made and the selecting it in the rectangle marque tool. After that i clicked on edit and went down to define brush preset.
8/19/013
Today I finished creating the brush of my name. After that I went on to begin creating the first of my pictures that mimiced the style of Frank Stella. To do this I used the marque tool to make a pile of diffrent colored squares plied on one another each on its own layer and each with a white stroke sourounding it. After I finished my picture I included the brush signiture that I made earlyer in the class period. I also used the I droper tool to reuse the colors I had already put on the picture.
8/20/013
Today I finished my mini bigoraphy on the artest Frank Stella. After that I then went on to begin the creation of my second picture in the style of Stella. For the second picture I used the elliptical marquee tool create a serise of overlaping circles each in a diffrent color. I then, again using the elliptical marquee tool removed the centers of the various circles.
8/21/013
I began today by resuming work on my second Frank Stella picture continueing to do what I had done yesterday. After completing that I uploaded to the website and then moved on to begin a picture replicating the style of Wassily Kandinsky
8/22/013
during class I created a five hundo by five hundo square with 72 restilution. I then typed my name in the magneto font in a very larg font size. After that I then went to Inner glow under layer styles and selected it. Other things under layer style that I selected were bevele and emboss,Gradent overlay, pattern over lay and stroke. Many of the settings were left at the defalt, with the most prominate exeption being the pattern overlay. The pattern over lay was changed using one of the drop dop menus proved form its defalt to a pattern that most resembled diamonds. the gradiant over lay was also change from black and white to a bronzesh color.
8/23/013
to day I replicated what I did yesterday two times from memory. as well as addes a shadow effect to the back ground. this was done by distorting the origonal text and then bluring it. I then up loaded all three on to the project page. I attempted to add sparkles, with the brush tool, to the last one ended up looking worse and not better.
8/26/013
During class tody we found a picture online of water. then we typed the word cold ontop of it in white font. then rotated it 90 degrees and used the winf effect from the right then rotated it back then copied it and then fliped it virtically. after that I distorted the copy so that it draged to the edge of the image. Affter that I erased parts of it with a 10 % oppasity so it appeared to dissolve in to the water.
I then began to repet the prossess on another picture
8/27/013
I began the class by uploading what I had failed to upload yesterday. Then I went on tho finish the picture I had begun at the end of class. I also re orgizinized a larg number of my file so they would be eayesr to go through in the future. After that I did alot of work on my project only to find out that due to a misspelling I was forced to almost start over on the entire thing. but lucaly I was also able to catch back up to were prevously was because I had a better idea of what I was doing. After I finished I uploaded it to the projects page.
8/28/013
Today in order to make the effect of fire we typed the ford fire and then used the smuge tool on it so that it would look like it was actually on fire. after that the hues of the text were manipulated using the adjustment layer.U then used a multitude of layer styles to that other effects could be created. The outer glow was adjusted to a bronzesh color, the innerglow was changed to a rainbow, while bevel and emboss and satan were also added, they were left in the default settings. The last layer style to be added was the patern overlay wich was changed to some thing that resembles a crystal as observed by a microscope. after its creation I added the picture to the project page.
After that a second word fire was put on top of the first so the appearance of fre coming from the background could be created.
8/29/013
In class we becan by creating a one inch tall white recangle on a black background then used a gausian blur on it. After that the file was copied three times . The majic Eraser was then used on the background of three of the four. After that the smudge tool was used on the layers wich had had there background gackgrounds removed. The smudge was used to give the apperance of fire. once that was compleet the layers were turned into an annomation and a tween was applied between the lauyers to make the transition look better.
8/30/013
\Today I finiished my fire anamation. and saved it for web and devices so it would be saved in the form of a gif. after that i went on to try and incorporate other projects with anamation. On the second anamation used many of the layer styles that were used onthe blig project. then mad it so the opacaty of the texture would increses with each frame of the picture. after that i gused the rainbow gradient and animation to make a spinniing rainbow.
9/3/013
In class we centered wrote the word grass in green on top of a background wich's color resembled that of sand. Then the layer was rasterized. after that the filter sceteh>torn egges contrast 25 the one above it 1 and the one above that 50 was applies so that the word looked like it had been torn. then a great many layers styles were added. they included inner shadow,outer shadow,inner glow bevel and emboss>contur and texture and gradient overlay.the presets for most of theres were left alone. the mane change that was done was changing the countour on many of them.after its compleation;gujhgfaiugosuydgfvjhgv i went on to redo the project but in stead changing to contours tht were used previously. the size of the inner shadow was increased to 62. the choke on inner glow was fully increased. on bevel and emboss the altuded was changed to 40. the contour was changed to the tile on row 4 collum 1. the gradient overlay was chanded to it was mostly blank but with many green lines going through it.
9/4/013
Today we practised using the pen tool. the pen tool can vise anchor pointos or be used to draw in freeform mode. the dfaust setting for the pen is to fill in the area wich has been out lined by the pen. This can be turnd off so the pen tool only creats a line. It is also possible to turn the line created by the pen tool in to a path. If text is put ontop of a path then instead os writing in a straight line your text will follow the path. the font size and color of the text can be manupalated if one goses to the character tab on the minue near the layer tab.n the size of the text can also bee manipulated disproportiontly so that it appers to be very flat or very wide. using these tools text can be manuplated to to shapes ot follow the outlines of shapes or follow the outline of other text. the short cut to use the pen tool is pressing the letter p on the keyboard.
9/5/013
TODAY we used brushespaths and such to kcreate the apperance that a wor is stitched in to the picture. this is done by typing a word first. an optional step is to go to warp text so that it looks like an ark. after that one should right click on the word ang click create path. then a brush shoud be made or aquired that looks like a v. then one shoud go to the brush tab near the layer tab. then adjust the settings so that the brush appers to be connected. then right click the path with the pen tool and go to the setting that has choke in the name and click on it. then use the drop done minue andf click brush.
9/6/013
today i cought up on some projects that i was behind on, then went on to try and experiment with creating work paths and making the stitch effetct. first i got a picture of myself and removed the background. this is done by outlinine a shape with the pen then converting it into a shape the rest is done the way it was earlyer. this is much more time consuming then eayrlrer because it must be done manualy.
9/16/013
today we uesd clipping masks to make water mark like effects. this is done by selectiing an immige then a and then typing over it. then on the image create clipping mask is to be selected. an outer glow should be added to the text. a white layer may be put under all of this so that one may see if the cliping mask worked befor the outer glow is added. to make the letters closer togeather one should use the charcter tap near the layer tab to adjust this.
9/17/013
to day I began working on a post card like thing using the prossess from eayrler to make a different pictur behind heach lwetter.
to make the photo I warped the text to that the the was arked up and the moon was arked down. the I got a bunch of moon photos and posotioneded them so each sa above a diffrent letter. I then murged the layers and greated a cliping mask. this made it look like each letter had a diffrent immage under it. finally I added an outer glow to the texy.
9/19/2013
today i started to use cliping masks on none words. I deleted the back groung of the immage then select the actual immage then created a cliping mask for the immage.
9/20/013
today i continued making cliping mask out of letters just as i had prevously done.
9/23/013
today we typed a large amout of text the copied and pasted it so that it took up a page . then we cut out the backgrout of a a photo then mad a text layer and pasted a the text in to it so that it took the entire page with a white text. a black background was put behind the other photos. then the cut out picture is put on top of a layer mask wich was created for thetext layer. crt a select all crt-c copyv layer mask alt on layer mask crt v is paist and crt d is deseclect.
9/24/013
today I caught up on old stuff and began writing the text for more text portratis/
9/25/013
today I tride to make a picture similar to that of some in the style of andy whorhall i first deleted the back groud from the picture. then I went to select>color range> mid tones. the I did new layer via copy and olored it red
then the same with shadows and chanded the color to blue
and the highlites yellow
10/1/013
today we seperated the mid tones and shadows from a picture colored the mide tones grey and the shadows black then merged the layers. then we created a bunch of word going in diffrent directions on a new layer then selected the picture with ctrl a then copied it then created a vector mask on the word layer then pasted it then inverted it with crtl I. also there was a white background layer.
10/2/013
today we contimed doing the smae thing.
10/4/013
tosay i finished my last text portrate and began working on my nine weeks project
10/16/013
yester day we tries to make a cqave painting like picture. we did this by making a background of many tans and browns to make a cave like apperence. then we created a brush ment to mimic animas and put that in the picture.\
then we tried to make mesoltithic like stuff. I made a bowl usind free transform and parrer over lay.
10/17/013
I made a picture to look alike a stone statue. by free transforming circular paint brushes. then I used a pater overlay and blur to make the grass
10/24/013
I finished egypt and went on to work on the port foliepo project.
10/28/013
today we did halloween stuff. in the first project we placed a picture of peeling paint and placed it under a a face and then turn the face to soft light and the paint to liniar light
10/29/013
today we zoomed in on eyes,. then sourounded them with a pen then created a slection the featherd then created a new layer then filled it in green the selection then erases the inner parts then then copy it into a new layer and then cread a hue saturation then ude the dodge tool on the origonal and burn on the eye parts then above it all creat a black layer with 40 perceent opacity then a layer colored 030600 and put it on 30 percent opacity.
8/16/013
Today we went over basic photo shop today. In class we briefly went over the various tools that Photoshop cs3 provides. The various brushes that the program provides were gone over much more thoroughly then the others. We learned how to use ctrl +J to copy various thing in to new layers as well as Ctrl + Z to undo any mistakes that we may make. we also learned how to make a brush in photo shop by selecting an image that you have made and the selecting it in the rectangle marque tool. After that i clicked on edit and went down to define brush preset.
8/19/013
Today I finished creating the brush of my name. After that I went on to begin creating the first of my pictures that mimiced the style of Frank Stella. To do this I used the marque tool to make a pile of diffrent colored squares plied on one another each on its own layer and each with a white stroke sourounding it. After I finished my picture I included the brush signiture that I made earlyer in the class period. I also used the I droper tool to reuse the colors I had already put on the picture.
8/20/013
Today I finished my mini bigoraphy on the artest Frank Stella. After that I then went on to begin the creation of my second picture in the style of Stella. For the second picture I used the elliptical marquee tool create a serise of overlaping circles each in a diffrent color. I then, again using the elliptical marquee tool removed the centers of the various circles.
8/21/013
I began today by resuming work on my second Frank Stella picture continueing to do what I had done yesterday. After completing that I uploaded to the website and then moved on to begin a picture replicating the style of Wassily Kandinsky
8/22/013
during class I created a five hundo by five hundo square with 72 restilution. I then typed my name in the magneto font in a very larg font size. After that I then went to Inner glow under layer styles and selected it. Other things under layer style that I selected were bevele and emboss,Gradent overlay, pattern over lay and stroke. Many of the settings were left at the defalt, with the most prominate exeption being the pattern overlay. The pattern over lay was changed using one of the drop dop menus proved form its defalt to a pattern that most resembled diamonds. the gradiant over lay was also change from black and white to a bronzesh color.
8/23/013
to day I replicated what I did yesterday two times from memory. as well as addes a shadow effect to the back ground. this was done by distorting the origonal text and then bluring it. I then up loaded all three on to the project page. I attempted to add sparkles, with the brush tool, to the last one ended up looking worse and not better.
8/26/013
During class tody we found a picture online of water. then we typed the word cold ontop of it in white font. then rotated it 90 degrees and used the winf effect from the right then rotated it back then copied it and then fliped it virtically. after that I distorted the copy so that it draged to the edge of the image. Affter that I erased parts of it with a 10 % oppasity so it appeared to dissolve in to the water.
I then began to repet the prossess on another picture
8/27/013
I began the class by uploading what I had failed to upload yesterday. Then I went on tho finish the picture I had begun at the end of class. I also re orgizinized a larg number of my file so they would be eayesr to go through in the future. After that I did alot of work on my project only to find out that due to a misspelling I was forced to almost start over on the entire thing. but lucaly I was also able to catch back up to were prevously was because I had a better idea of what I was doing. After I finished I uploaded it to the projects page.
8/28/013
Today in order to make the effect of fire we typed the ford fire and then used the smuge tool on it so that it would look like it was actually on fire. after that the hues of the text were manipulated using the adjustment layer.U then used a multitude of layer styles to that other effects could be created. The outer glow was adjusted to a bronzesh color, the innerglow was changed to a rainbow, while bevel and emboss and satan were also added, they were left in the default settings. The last layer style to be added was the patern overlay wich was changed to some thing that resembles a crystal as observed by a microscope. after its creation I added the picture to the project page.
After that a second word fire was put on top of the first so the appearance of fre coming from the background could be created.
8/29/013
In class we becan by creating a one inch tall white recangle on a black background then used a gausian blur on it. After that the file was copied three times . The majic Eraser was then used on the background of three of the four. After that the smudge tool was used on the layers wich had had there background gackgrounds removed. The smudge was used to give the apperance of fire. once that was compleet the layers were turned into an annomation and a tween was applied between the lauyers to make the transition look better.
8/30/013
\Today I finiished my fire anamation. and saved it for web and devices so it would be saved in the form of a gif. after that i went on to try and incorporate other projects with anamation. On the second anamation used many of the layer styles that were used onthe blig project. then mad it so the opacaty of the texture would increses with each frame of the picture. after that i gused the rainbow gradient and animation to make a spinniing rainbow.
9/3/013
In class we centered wrote the word grass in green on top of a background wich's color resembled that of sand. Then the layer was rasterized. after that the filter sceteh>torn egges contrast 25 the one above it 1 and the one above that 50 was applies so that the word looked like it had been torn. then a great many layers styles were added. they included inner shadow,outer shadow,inner glow bevel and emboss>contur and texture and gradient overlay.the presets for most of theres were left alone. the mane change that was done was changing the countour on many of them.after its compleation;gujhgfaiugosuydgfvjhgv i went on to redo the project but in stead changing to contours tht were used previously. the size of the inner shadow was increased to 62. the choke on inner glow was fully increased. on bevel and emboss the altuded was changed to 40. the contour was changed to the tile on row 4 collum 1. the gradient overlay was chanded to it was mostly blank but with many green lines going through it.
9/4/013
Today we practised using the pen tool. the pen tool can vise anchor pointos or be used to draw in freeform mode. the dfaust setting for the pen is to fill in the area wich has been out lined by the pen. This can be turnd off so the pen tool only creats a line. It is also possible to turn the line created by the pen tool in to a path. If text is put ontop of a path then instead os writing in a straight line your text will follow the path. the font size and color of the text can be manupalated if one goses to the character tab on the minue near the layer tab.n the size of the text can also bee manipulated disproportiontly so that it appers to be very flat or very wide. using these tools text can be manuplated to to shapes ot follow the outlines of shapes or follow the outline of other text. the short cut to use the pen tool is pressing the letter p on the keyboard.
9/5/013
TODAY we used brushespaths and such to kcreate the apperance that a wor is stitched in to the picture. this is done by typing a word first. an optional step is to go to warp text so that it looks like an ark. after that one should right click on the word ang click create path. then a brush shoud be made or aquired that looks like a v. then one shoud go to the brush tab near the layer tab. then adjust the settings so that the brush appers to be connected. then right click the path with the pen tool and go to the setting that has choke in the name and click on it. then use the drop done minue andf click brush.
9/6/013
today i cought up on some projects that i was behind on, then went on to try and experiment with creating work paths and making the stitch effetct. first i got a picture of myself and removed the background. this is done by outlinine a shape with the pen then converting it into a shape the rest is done the way it was earlyer. this is much more time consuming then eayrlrer because it must be done manualy.
9/16/013
today we uesd clipping masks to make water mark like effects. this is done by selectiing an immige then a and then typing over it. then on the image create clipping mask is to be selected. an outer glow should be added to the text. a white layer may be put under all of this so that one may see if the cliping mask worked befor the outer glow is added. to make the letters closer togeather one should use the charcter tap near the layer tab to adjust this.
9/17/013
to day I began working on a post card like thing using the prossess from eayrler to make a different pictur behind heach lwetter.
to make the photo I warped the text to that the the was arked up and the moon was arked down. the I got a bunch of moon photos and posotioneded them so each sa above a diffrent letter. I then murged the layers and greated a cliping mask. this made it look like each letter had a diffrent immage under it. finally I added an outer glow to the texy.
9/19/2013
today i started to use cliping masks on none words. I deleted the back groung of the immage then select the actual immage then created a cliping mask for the immage.
9/20/013
today i continued making cliping mask out of letters just as i had prevously done.
9/23/013
today we typed a large amout of text the copied and pasted it so that it took up a page . then we cut out the backgrout of a a photo then mad a text layer and pasted a the text in to it so that it took the entire page with a white text. a black background was put behind the other photos. then the cut out picture is put on top of a layer mask wich was created for thetext layer. crt a select all crt-c copyv layer mask alt on layer mask crt v is paist and crt d is deseclect.
9/24/013
today I caught up on old stuff and began writing the text for more text portratis/
9/25/013
today I tride to make a picture similar to that of some in the style of andy whorhall i first deleted the back groud from the picture. then I went to select>color range> mid tones. the I did new layer via copy and olored it red
then the same with shadows and chanded the color to blue
and the highlites yellow
10/1/013
today we seperated the mid tones and shadows from a picture colored the mide tones grey and the shadows black then merged the layers. then we created a bunch of word going in diffrent directions on a new layer then selected the picture with ctrl a then copied it then created a vector mask on the word layer then pasted it then inverted it with crtl I. also there was a white background layer.
10/2/013
today we contimed doing the smae thing.
10/4/013
tosay i finished my last text portrate and began working on my nine weeks project
10/16/013
yester day we tries to make a cqave painting like picture. we did this by making a background of many tans and browns to make a cave like apperence. then we created a brush ment to mimic animas and put that in the picture.\
then we tried to make mesoltithic like stuff. I made a bowl usind free transform and parrer over lay.
10/17/013
I made a picture to look alike a stone statue. by free transforming circular paint brushes. then I used a pater overlay and blur to make the grass
10/24/013
I finished egypt and went on to work on the port foliepo project.
10/28/013
today we did halloween stuff. in the first project we placed a picture of peeling paint and placed it under a a face and then turn the face to soft light and the paint to liniar light
10/29/013
today we zoomed in on eyes,. then sourounded them with a pen then created a slection the featherd then created a new layer then filled it in green the selection then erases the inner parts then then copy it into a new layer and then cread a hue saturation then ude the dodge tool on the origonal and burn on the eye parts then above it all creat a black layer with 40 perceent opacity then a layer colored 030600 and put it on 30 percent opacity.