Poster Project

The project was to choose a topic that with significant to who we are, or something we cared about. I decided do focus on coastal erosion in Louisiana and the future affects it would have if it continues at the current rate. I used satellite photographs of communities along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and used the text to personify erosion or rising water levels. I experimented with typing on paths, I began with the spiral tool but ended up changing to the ellipse tool to get a consistent curve. I also experiment with the use of color in type but decided to stick with a consistent grayscale throughout. Specific words changed color in order to emphasize certain words or even to hide or erode certain words. 

Images touched up as well as a combination of faces

Here is some images I touched up a little bit and cut out using the pen tool. The top image is a combination of beards, hair, and a new nose.

Animations in photoshop

Animated GIF made in photoshop

a combination of changing the

opacity and positions of 3 images

Landscape Assignment

Edward Hopper- Cityscape. Image I have chosen to recreate using a variety of patterns.

Brush your teeth!

In-class work using found images and the Define Brush Pre-set option to create brushes out of images. The first set was color selecting what I wanted to turn into a brush. You can narrow the selection down by using the the subtract from selection setting with the marquette tool. Also I altered the opacity as well as the coloration of these stamp-like brushes to emphasize the layering.

Class and Outside Work

Creature using multiple layers and scanned in sketches, with a photograph from downtown Memphis. Drop Shadow drawn out with a path that was filled in and manipulated to create a more dynamic shadow.

Both of these images utilized the pen tool to cut out images and the free transform option in order to flip and resize. The eraser tool was used in both on low opacity to avoid hard edges. I used the shape tool in order for circular and rectangle shapes. I used the clone tool to repeat the images of the buildings and also copied the duck path on top of a image of a bomb which then filled the path. I altered the hue/saturation of the image below for color usage in the background. In the one above I used a downloaded pattern tool to fill in the space.

Digital Art Sites

joybymellim.com Specializes in letterpress cards, totes, pillow, and other decorative printing.
Digital Artist Diane Fenster's work has a nice worn look to it www.art.net/Studios/Visual/Fenster?ritofab_home/fenster.html
Image from free lance Design Louise Cunningham, found on printpattern.blogspot
This is from a site called PatternHead which lets you download free vector images mainly patterns