Friday, January 29, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010


I made this composite for a family member's 5th Birthday. I thought she would love the bright colors and the fact that her picture looked like a "cartoon". I used the artistic filter "poster edges" on the background. I then added the other pictures and added a stroke to them along with a drop shadow. I then added her name and matched it with one of the colors in her shirt.

My mom didn't have a picture of her mom and dad together. I took her dad out of the picture at the top left and put him in place of my mom on the top right. The result is the bottom picture with my grandpa and grandma together.

This was one of those photos I just happened to catch. We were at the WV State Fair just looking around the horse barns when I looked up and saw a great shot.
This is the football picture I made of my son, Hunter, after I made the baseball one. I had a poster printed for him (18x24 size)and he's very proud of it.

I created this after I saw a MLB poster and I thought to myself . . . "I can do that" I've done a couple of these for baseball and football. I'll post a football one later. The parents absolutey love them! The kids think they're cool too.

Before and After


Before using CS4, I rarely used the Camera RAW from the brigde. This is an example of how effective it is at making pictures look soooo much better. This isn't a great picture but you can tell the changes in the before and after. I also used the selective color under adjustments to focus more on making the leaves green.

An Ant's Perspective


I've added canvas to this picture and applied a Gaussian blur to give it the "dreamy" affect.

Science Poster


This is one of my "Poster Edges" composites.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010

Skateboard tricks in Photoshop


This picture consists of two separate ones. I took a picture of the skater as I lay on the ground and had him to jump off and place the skateboard under his feet. I then took a picture of a skate park and then placed the skater in the park.

Lazy Cat


Even Jasper enjoys the lazy days of summer.

A boy and his faithful companion.