Polaroid effect

I liked this project because it was mainly dragging and copying. I found pictures of food from my favorite restaurant and added strokes to the outside. I didn't have to do this for every single picture because I just dragged the effects to each photo. I added a color scheme in the background, the logo, and the text. I added a little drop shadow to the text to make it stand out a bit more.

Curling type around objects

This project is really a whole bunch of different projects compiled into one. First I had to curl the type around the little sample bottle which you do by choosing the shear option and dragging the point to the left to give it a little curl. You do the same thing to the other text and make it a little opaque. Drag this to a picture of whatever you want on the ad and add text. I think this turned out really nice.

Elegance with trancparent type

This project just requires knowing how to add effects to text. I only had two layers when I was finished with this project. First, find an image of whatever you want to "add elegance" to. Then choose stroke to add a border around the outside. From there, you type whatever word you want and then flip it so it goes up & down (if you want). Change your foreground color to white and then press option-delete to fill the text with white. Then, in the layers palette, chance the opacity to around 35%. You can add whatever you want to the bottom of the picture to complete the project.

Carved wood type

This project took a while because there were so many different steps. First you make a custom gradient with browns. You pick the radial gradient and you click and drag from the center to the top of the background layer. Then you add noise and choose gaussian blur. Then you add a motion blur and unsharpen the mask. Then you type the word you want to have this effect and you add "sprayed strokes" to the text. You then select all letters and press delete to knock out the color from it. Then you choose inverse, add a drop shadow and any other effects you want.

Brushed metal

The brushed metal effect is really simple if you're familiar with photoshop. All I did was use a picture that was wanted in the add and change the canvas size to have room for the text at the bottom. Then I added a rectangular box and filled it with a gray gradient. From there I added noise and messed with the color levels. After the noise I added motion blur which made it look like metal, but to smooth it out I fixed the Bevel and Emboss. I then added text and the picture of the monitor.

DVD Menu

This project required me to use about four different photoshop steps and prior knowledge of photoshop. I first took a picture of a movie I wanted to do, (I chose The Notebook) and then I added a blue tint and a grain to the picture, because it was going to be my background. Then I made four separate circles that were all the same size and pasted into them. I chose 4 different scenes from the movie. Then I added a little outer glow to each circle and voilà!

Putting an image in a monitor

 This technique just made me for familiar with the Free Transform tool. I wanted to find a really cool image and I think this one looked really neat. This photoshop technique isn't a one-time thing, you'll use it throughout photoshop. First I found this image, brought up the free transform tool, and then I held the command key and dragged each corner by itself to fit into the monitor.

Putting one image inside another image

This effect is really popular in catalogs and adds. All you do is take an existing photo into the screen of a product and transform it to fit just right. This is popular because electronics or anything with a screen doesn't really photograph well. I took the photo I was using first and transformed it into the cell phone, added a drop shadow, and that step was done. The orange part at the bottom is just a simple shape filled with orange and the background is the same photo in the phone, but I desaturated it and made it more opaque. I added some text found regularly in cell phone adds and the logo for Fictitious Wireless was a custom shape already on photoshop.

Business card

Back

Front

Making business cards really let us show our own creativity and style. I chose a photography business because that's what I'm most interested in and I figured I could pretty much do anything. For the background, I had to clone some of the background because there were a couple more thick, black lines and it was too busy. I wish I could find the original background but I can't to save my life. I then added some very simple text and messed with the contrast and brightness. I also added a drop shadow to my font and gave it a kind-of "burnt" effect. I think it turned out really neat.

Stamp

Original

Final

Photoshop was a big help in this project. It cut out the stamp edge holes all by itself and it looks really good. It was difficult deciding what to put into the stamp but I figured Marilyn Monroe would be a good choice. I added the price of the stamp and also a drop shadow to the background of the entire stamp. The edge is kind of thick, but oh well.

Perspective shadow

I feel like this project turned out really neat. The perspective aspect of it makes it look really cool, and Tormented is just the word for it. I lined up the shadows really well and the gradient looks really good.

Wrap text around globe

These are a couple of the wrapping texts I did. Again, these were more of the simpler projects that we did and I enjoyed doing them. It was basically just finding a sphere, writing text, copying it and flipping it.

Aqua Sphere

When I started this project, I didn't really know how it would turn out. You have to draw random rough shapes inside the sphere and it didn't seem like it would turn out with the whole "aqua" effect. Once i blurred the edges it started looking better and it turned out really well. The shadow underneath really added a cool effect, too.

Clipping mask effect

The shadow on this one could have been blurred better, but I think the ad is really good. I cut and pasted the Ragbrai logo and map of the rout onto the card, and also the dice.

3D type

This one took a lot of thought and thinking in different perspectives. The reflected shadow was probably the most difficult and it took me a while, but the finished project looks very good. I used a blue and teal gradient across the front of the words and just added a Lens Crafters logo to tell what the "sale-a-thon" was for.

Picture in word

This project was one of the first ones we did, 

so it was pretty simple. The only hard part about this

project was trying to decide what word to do and with

what picture. I found these really pretty flowers and 

used a simple word, but it turned out really good.

Original

Final

 

Using one photo as the background and the focal point

Original

This project was kind of a long process, however it was all really easy steps. Drag here, copy this, fade that. I'm proud of this one because it really looks like an add that would be used. I added in the logo by lasso-ing and pasting.

Final

Shadow

I did other shadows, but I think this one really turned out the best.  It's blurred just the right amount and really looks like a shadow. It turned out awesome.

Motion Blur

Original

Final

This project really opened my eyes to photoshop. It's amazing what simple tools can do to a picture. I added tint on the windows and, obviously, a motion blur. I added the logo and just made up that it was the "2011 Model", but I think everything looks really good in this picture

Colorize

Original

Final

This project was one of my favorites. It looks like it would be way more complex than it really is, but the steps are so simple. I also did two more of these, but I think this one had the best color accents. This is a picture of my friend and me outside of the Statue of Liberty. I love this picture!

Original

Final!

This was the original, plain pop can. The green color to me kind of looked bold and energetic, so I decided to name the drink Bolt. I had to wrap the font and change the directions of it, and I think it turned out well.

Reflection

Original

This was the original picture of the new Motorola Xoom. I added a reflection to the bottom of the image and created a gradient background with the color scheme of the Xoom. I really thought this project turned out neat.

Final!