2nd Marking Period

#11 Flyer made with Photoshop skills

I created a Flyer for my after school program with Adobe Photoshop. You can do the same by following some STEPS:

1. Go to Adobe Photoshop and create a canvas 4 x 6 with 200 resolution.
2. Now Use the Gradient Tool to fill the background with color.
3. Switch to the Text Tool to add the information of the club, program, group etc...
4.  After adding all the information in different layers, go to each text  to add some effect.
5. For the text you can  use Drop shadow,  outer glow to make it pop, Stroke, Gradient Overlay, and Bevel and Emboss to obtain my results.
6. For the Images I use Outer Glow and Inner Glow.
7. Also when I added the images they had a white background that didn't go with my Flyer, so I use the Magic Wand to select the White parts and delete them
8. To Finalize save the Flyer as a .PSD and .JPEG

#12 Texture with layer mode By Domingo FortunaTZS101-06

To create your dream suit you have to use Adobe Photoshop.

Steps:

• First you have to look for your dream suit in internet, and also for a texture that go with the suit.
• After that open Adobe Photoshop, and create a canvas of 6x4 with 300 resolution.
• Now open the image of the suit.
• select the area of the suit with the magnetic lasso 
• Go to EDIT and select copy merged
• Open the texture in another file and unblock the canvas to move the texture to the suit with the Move tool (make sure that the texture cover the whole suit.
• Now press inverse or (CTRL+ALT+G)
• To finalize change the opacity of the texture and change the layer mode.
• Saved as .PSD and .JPEG

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            #13: Mimicking the Change one thing Poster 

To do this poster I used Adobe Photoshop

First I open a new file in Adobe Photoshop with a canvas of 6x4 with 300 resolution.

Then I applied a solid background with a color of my choice. Third, I got a picture of Coca Cola and another one of an orange juice. Fourth, I use the Magnetic lasso to select the inner part of the bottle. Fifth, I when to edit and I selected Copy Merged. After that I open the picture of the juice and I unblocked the layer. Now I used the move tool to place the picture of the juice atop of the Coca Cola picture. I when to layer and press inverse then, delete. For a more realistic look I changed the opacity of the juice and I erased the part that cover the logo of Coca Cola. To be more professional, I used drop shadow and outer glow to make it pop.  To Finalize, I searched for some informations to add it into poster.

The NYC Food Bank Logo was used solely for educational purpose. No Copy Right Infringement was intended.

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14 A & B: Displacement Maps (Overlay on uneven surface)

To do this I used Adobe Photoshop

Steps:

• First search for a picture of flag and other of a brick wall.
• OPEN a new file in Adobe Photoshop and enter your desired Width, Height and Resolution.
• Now select the Move tool to move the flag and the brick wall to the new file.
• Select the layer of the flag and change the blending mode to Hard light.
• Select the layer of the brick wall and duplicate it.
• Make sure the original layer of the brick wall is on the bottom, the layer of the flag in the middle, and the copy of the brick wall on top.
• Go to the copy of the Brick wall and desaturate it by hitting CTRL+SHIFT+U.
• With the copy layer select go to Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur.
• Adjust the Gaussian Blur to your desire.
• Save the file in save as to apply displacement.
• Go to Filter-Distort-Displace.
• Now adjust the horizontal and vertical scale.
• Displace the file you save earlier.
• You are due for now. If you want to do the face follow the same steps.

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 Smart Filtering with Motion Blur

As always we are going to use Adobe Photoshop to add motion to a picture of a vehicle in motion.

Steps:

1. Search for a picture of a vehicle in motion and save it.
2. Open the picture As a Smart Object.
3. Now go to filter-Blur-Motion Blur
4. In motion blur adjust the distance of the pixels.
5. Click the mask thumbnail and select the Brush tool,
6. Adjust the size of the Brush if you want.
7. Make sure that your foreground is black and the background white.
8. Paint the part where you want the filter to go.

                                                                 That's all for now.

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Quick Mask 

Use Adobe Photoshop to make your teeth white

Steps:

1. Open the picture in Adobe Photoshop.
2. use the Zoom tool to enlarge the area you are going to select.
3. Set the Foreground Black and the Background White.
4. Click the Quick mask mode button.
5. Select the Brush tool and change the size of it.
6. Paint the area you want to select.
7. If you commit an error switch the foreground and background to eliminate the error with the Brush tool.
8. If you didn't committed an error don't switch the foreground and background.
9. Turn off the Quick mask.
10. Click select and pick inverse.
11. To change the color of the teeth use the Dodge Tool.

That's all for now, stay tuned for more projects.
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Soft Focus Effect

Use Adobe Photoshop to make your skin look smoother 

Steps:

• Open a picture in Adobe Photoshop and duplicate it.
• Go to Filter and select Covert for Smart Filters.
• Go to Filter again, but now select Blur, and then Gaussian Blur.
• In Gaussian Blur choose the radius appropriate for your photo.
• Go to the layer mode, and select Screen
• Now add a layer mask.
• Pick up the Brush tool, and choose a soft edge brush.
• After selecting the soft edge brush, go to the Airbrush Thumbnail, and drag the slider to 40%.
• Paint over the important features (eyes, mouth, and hair).
• To finalize this work, change the layer Opacity to control the amount of glow in the skin.

That's all for now, stay tuned for more reviews.

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     18: USB Drive

To create a USB drive you have to use Adobe Illustrator. The main details that make this USB drive realistic are the shape and the gradients that work together to create a master piece. Also the direction of the light can affect the USB. The fusion of the colors in the different dimensions make the USB pop out  of the 2D dimension. The angles, locations, and opacities produce different effects, which simulates the reflection of light on the USB. Also the Offset Path add a deep surface to the shapes. Overall the procedures of making an USB is very complicated and a single error can make a huge different.

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19A: Draw your name in Adobe Illustrator

For this assignment I use different shapes to create my name.We did this in class as a preparation for the test which is a phone.To combine the shapes as one, I intersect the shapes and I press the combination button on the right side of Adobe Illustrator. After I wrote my name, I added different shapes to decorate the background.

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As I told you in the last project, this assignment also is going to be a preparation for the test.

In this assignment we did the menu buttons of a phone in Adobe Illustrator.

First create a rectangle, and round the conners of it.

After that create a circle that cover the rectangle from top to bottom 

(don't cover the rounded comers.).

Now remove the area that is cover by the circle.

For this step use the rectangle tool to create another rectangle that goes from side to side.

Attach the rectangle to the figure and delete all the part selected, and that's all.

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20: Phone

This phone was created in Adobe Illustrator.The assignment was divided into 5 days because is very LONG!!!

The process of creating a Phone is base on the use different shapes and gradients. Some Tools that can be use to make a phone are  Effects, Strokes, Pen Tool, Text Tool, and Offset Path, besides this tools there are others that complete the phone. 

I will post all the steps one by one in a lapse of 5 days.

• The first day- I created a rounded rectangle, and I added offset path to create a similar double rectangle, but smaller.
• Then I added a linear gradient. 
• After that I set 2 offset path to adde a 3D sensation to the phone, and later on I added gradient to the layer.

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