Go Make Me Something!

Giant Ego

This was such a different project from what we've done before. It was easier than I expected, it just included a lot of details that had to be exactly on point, and you couldn't just go with the numbers the guy in the video had. I had trouble with the mask because I had to do it over and over again. The hair wasn't to bad, I got it the first try. All in all I enjoyed this project.

Stone Portrait

 

This project was pretty cool. All the different things we did to the file like using the dodge tool, didn't look like it was making a difference on my screen, but once I kept doing the steps everything started to fall into place. When trying to do the Gaussian blur, it would only blur the center and the edges were crisp, so I just used a mask to blur the edges of the shadow and spotlight.The lighting effect looked differently on my version of Photoshop then the one the guy in the video was using so I kind of had to guess and check what to change and where to move the "hotspot" and stuff. But overall, awesome project!

Cartoon Yourself

This project was harder than I expected it to be. The colors were off, I changed them but when i posted them to blogger, they were a million times darker than I chose them to be. THE EYES LOOK SO RATCHET I KNOW JUST DONT LOOK AT THEM.

El Guapo Hot Sauce

 

This project was harder and took a lot more time then I thought it would. I created the sun in illustrator and in Photoshop I used the multiply blend mode and changed the fill and opacity for the sun because I felt like it was too strong for the ad. I also added stripes to the side of my ad. I knew empty space is good, but I felt like there was too much empty space. I really liked how it all turned out though!

The ad consisted of keeping everything simple. I needed to create something easy to read but had the
feel of a Hot Sauce.

Pen Tool Exercise

This exercise was very helpful. The pen tool always confused me because I didn't understand the lines didn't go where I wanted or I couldn't get the lines to curve the way it was supposed to. Now since I did this short exercise, I understand the reasoning behind the mistakes I made. I could have fixed the mistakes I made with just one or two clicks!

Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh!

 

I really enjoyed the flexibility with this project. Since Helvetica is such a simple feeling font, I tried making a simple poster. I didn't capitalize any letters and changed a lot of basic features when it came to the font. When I added the Macintosh logo, it was to crisp and didn't fit the feel of the poster, so I added a Gaussian blur to soften it up. Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh!