9/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Ninth day of Photoshop I gave you

 Football

 Footprint

 Sunflower

 Sunbathing

 Spearmints

5 Literal Interpretations

8/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Eighth day of Photoshop I gave to you

A Highway Lane I wish Existed

7/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Seventh day of Photoshop I gave to you

One Cougaroo Express Logo

6/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Sixth day of Photoshop I gave to you

Leo with a rock solid firing stance

5/10 Day of Photoshop

On the Fifth day of Photoshop I gave to you

One Pokerface'ing Lady Gaga

4/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Fourth day of Photoshop I gave to you

One Queen Chrysalis cut into ribbons

3/10 Days of Photoshop

On the Third day of Photoshop I gave to you

One Black Knight rising

2/10 Days of Photoshop

On the second day of Photoshop I gave to you:

One Twilight Sparkle/Zatanna Zatara pairing

1/10 Days of Photoshop

On the first day of Photoshop I gave to you:

One cow made of meat

Thumb Roll Cinemagraph

5/3/2012

A high-res cinemagraph of me doing a balisong trick called a thumb roll in my prom tux. Like the clone project but in an animation!

Parts Panther

4/26/12

A panther made out of car parts. Inspired obviously by transformers. Couldn't be bothered to fix the background size.

Walk Cycle

4/23/2012

Finally finished my walk cycle! About a week late but I think it looks better than anyone's... I finished the fram drawings in about 2 days but coloring and shading took another week. Gave me huge respect for the people who animate for a living, the sheer amount of time it would take to draw a single episode when It took me 2 weeks to make an 8 frame walking animation.

Typography

3/8/2012

It's my puppy, Jinx. He's a little over a year old and this is what he'd look like made out of letters. The red thing on his collar is a flower. Our puppy sitter loves posing him handsomely and sending my mom pictures, this is one such picture typography'd.

Pinkie Pie Animation

3/5/2012

An adorable image of everyone's best friend, Pinkie Pie, doing her sweet little hop she uses to get around. Made me hate flash just a little bit less but more at the same time. My document size was for some reason set to about the size of her tail so that's all that was exporting, very frustrating.

Toy Animation

2/29/2012

This is a short little stop-motion clip of a Transformers toy driving around, transforming into robot form, back into car form and driving away. It's pretty cool. It's taught me that I hate adobe flash.

Retouch 2

2/22/2012

Top is before, Bottom is after. Removed blemishes and splotchy skin. Brightened eyes and smoothed skin.

Retouching Day 1

2/15/2012

                                                                      Before

                                                                   After

Photoshop retouching. I learned to do it. Yeah.

Paint Splatter

2/13/2012

I don't know which version I like better so I'll just post both. This project was cool because it was all about putting pictures together in a way that looks good which I think this does. I had trouble finding some good looking paint drips that I could use so I made my own with the paintbrush to make it look like her arms were dripping with wet ink. I wanted to use a black background but that way I couldn't use black ink or paint so I did the white halo around the image.

Color Wheel

2/08/2012

So this is my RGB Color Wheel, I like the way it came together. The outer circle is composed of Nordic rune stones and the central design is the Celtic trinity. I've always really like Celtic and Nordic symbols so I figured I'd bring them together. I had to make a copy of the background color wheel to make a smooth overlay and add more color since the layer effects I used meant there wasn't much color in the runes. I learned after I had laid all the runes out that there was an easier way to align them all to a central point and rotate around it but it was too late at that point. Oh well.

Dashie

2/3/12

Less of a space painting, more playing with the gradient tool. If you cant find the the gradient I used, "Her eyes are up there.". This was really easy and I didn't want to paint space, so I thought "Whats better than space? PONIES!" So I gave Wub Woo Rainbow-dash some sweet rainbow pupils. It was baby-time easy and I didn't have any problems.

Colorize

2/2/2012

 Playing with layer overlaying and threshold adjustment to create an intense black and white image then overlaying color. As usual I'm pretty happy with it (or else it wouldn't be done and posted here...), the fiery effect I made with the red, orange, and yellow combo looks really cool. The image I used had a background that was really dark so I couldn't just use threshold to get rid of it. So I had to cut the image out with the eraser and then modify the threshold and add the color on top. I found out early on that since the layer above the picture was the one I applied the threshold and color too it was someway influencing the way the color interacted with the image. Once I hid the first layer the color went in much more naturally.

Newimal: Thorny Frilled Lizard

1/31/2012

Another picture I'm really happy with the end result of. The two animals I combined were a Thorny Devil and a Frilled Lizard. Both already were kind of over the top intimidation animals. They scare their predators away with their appearance so I figured their combination would be even more intimidating. Again using the warp, rotate, liquify, and eraser I combined the head of the frilled lizard frill and all and plonked it right down on the thorny devil's body. Then it was a matter of using Hue & Saturation setting to change the different parts of his face and frill to more closely match his new body. I ran into some trouble with the edge created between the two colors so I used a bit of paint brush to smooth it and look more natural.

Animal Texture Overlay

1/30/2012

God I really love how this came out. The idea of the project was to learn how to use the warp, rotate, transform, and the layer styles to overlay a texture on an animal. My original idea was one of the 4 riders of the apocalypse, specifically war. So I took a picture of an Arabian horse kind of sliding into a turn. I changed the hue and saturation to make the horse black and the background look even more desolate. Then came the fire both for his mane and feet and of course the skull war paint. I really learned through trial and error how to use the warp and the layer effects and added in so paintbrush work of my own to really embellish the smoke and definition on the horse.

Clone Project

1/27/2012

I think this piece came out really cool. I actually throw shot-put and discus for the track team so I thought it'd be a cool idea to show all the positions in a spinning shot-put throw. I would have done discus because the throw is much more dramatic but the gate was locked and we didn't feel like jumping it was a good plan. The trick was figuring out which order the layers had to go in to look right, I must have reordered them four or five times. I learned how to overlay layers and make multiple layers visible at the same time better than before.

Frog Tongue

1/26/12

                                                                                  
Second project and I have to say it had me a little frustrated at times. The Drop Shadow didn't want to behave in any logical manner for this piece. So I ended up redoing the base layer with the mouth. Nobody else seemed have this problem. Don't know if it's operator error or what, but when I reset the background the drop shadow worked fine.

Angry Pancakes

1/25/12                                                                         

 My first use of Photoshop EVER! I'm pretty pleased with the final result the only thing I would change is the little line under the pancakes' lower lip, it got put there when I liquified the hole and I couldn't fix it...