Design Pattern

Here's the design pattern thing we had to do. I chose to make the pattern with a coke bottle. There's not much to explain for this one. I just followed the tutorial using a Coke bottle instead of a guitar, and I added a yellow hue instead of a blue one. Also, I used my silhouette instead of the one they used. Once I got all the basic stuff done, I added the "Drink Coca-Cola" text with a cursive/handwriting looking font to sort of match the Coca-Cola logo font. Then, I added an outer glow to the main Coke bottle, duplicated the main Coke bottle, and made that layer's outer glow have some noise to make it look cool. Then, to make a reflection, I duplicated the large Coke bottle and removed the outer glow effect; then, I flipped the bottle, moved it below the main one, added a layer mask, and used the gradient tool on the layer mask to make the reflection fade out. I did not lower the opacity because I think it already looks subtle enough. To add the stroke, I just followed the steps Ms. Klein gave us. I used the pen tool to create a path, used the stroke path with my choice of brush and color, and then added an outer glow to the stroke to make it more vivid. Next, I added a small Gaussian blur to the black box at the bottom to make it look nicer. Then, I added the ".refreshing" at the bottom in a more modern, "refreshing" looking font to make it look cool. Anyway, hope you enjoy. 

Movie Poster

 

 Okay, here's the power ball movie poster. This wasn't too difficult to make. I just followed the steps on the tutorial. I couldn't get my power ball to look exactly like theirs, but I guess that's okay because mine still looks cool. It took me awhile to find a good picture of Mordor that wasn't blurry or tiny. I used a Will Ferrell as my celebrity; I just cut him out of another picture with the magnetic lasso tool and made any corrections with the lasso tool. I used the dragons from the website they provided and cut them out and put them in the background. I adjusted the Hue/Saturation for all of them to make them more red-colored so they would match the overall feeling. Then I added the catchphrase at the top. Finally, for the logo, I used the logo from "How To Train Your Dragon" but I cut out the work "Train." First, I had to get rid of all the white background from the logo. Then I used the rectangular marquee tool to cut out the word "Train." Next, I added my own text that says "Kill." I found the typeface that looks most similar to the one they used. Then, I adjusted the kerning and other settings so it would match the best. After that, I used the eyedropper tool to select a color from the logo and then I changed the word "Kill" to that color. Next, I added a slight blur to the word "Kill" so it would blend in better. Then I merged the logo and my text into one layer and increased the saturation so it would be extra red. Finally, I added the text "Will Ferrell knows..." and changed the color to the same red. Then I added a lens flare to make it look cool. Anyway, I think that's everything; hope you enjoy!

Vintage Polaroid

Okay, here's the vintage Polaroid. This was also pretty easy. I just followed the steps in the tutorial. I had to find my own images for the background textures because the website they used was blocked. To get the image of the tractor, I just copied the one they had on their website and then cropped the border. Then I just followed the steps. At the end I added the text below the image. I chose a font that looked like handwriting, rotated it to fit on the bottom of the picture, and then converted it to a smart object. I added a layer mask and then used a black brush to add some of the grunge effect. Finally, I used an adjustments layer to lighten the text and make it look older. Hope you enjoy!

Retro Poster

 

Okay, here's my Vintage Pop Art/Retro Poster. This thing took a LONG time... it wasn't very difficult, just time consuming. I used the same picture as my iPod silhouette for me and then I got a picture of some weird bird for my head. Otherwise, I pretty much just followed the steps of the tutorial. Below are the source images I used. Anyway, hope you enjoy! 

This is the old paper I used as the background..

 This is the bird head I used.

 These are the words around me. I just cut them out with the lasso tool.

 The above three pictures are the old papers that had the letters of my name on them.

 The above two pictures are the patterns I used for the blobs behind me.

Makeover Yourself

 

 

Okay, the first one is the before photo, the second one is the after photo, and the third one has all the corrections I made; here they are:

1. Changed color of shirt (selected shirt, changed color to red, set blending mode to color)

2. Removed tooth that was showing (healing brush tool)

3. Changed eye color (Selected eye color, Image > Adjustments, Hue/Saturation)

4. Whitened eyes (Selected white of eyes, Ctrl + J to new layer, blending mode to screen, adjusted opacity)

5. Fixed left eye (Used clone stamp tool, set to flip horizontal, and copied right eye so both eyes would be the same)

6. Lightened hair color (Selected hair, went to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and adjusted the brightness to make my hair lighter. Then, I added a Gausian blur so the effect would blend in.)

7. Added strand of hair (Clone stamp tool)

8. Removed wrinkles under eyes (Healing Brush Tool)

Digital Makeovers: Skin Tone Correction

Okay, here's the original image I used for the tutorial. I just copied it from the website. It was kind of annoying because the pictures kept changing, but eventually I was able to copy the original picture.

 And here's the final image after I did the tutorial. This tutorial was also very simple. You just had to select an area, make a new layer, choose a skin tone, then fill the selection with the skin tone color and set the blend mode to color. Finally, you could adjust the opacity of it to make it look better. I think it looks pretty good and it worked well for getting rid of the bright highlight on the skin. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Digital Makeovers: Wrinkle Removal

Okay, here's the original image that I started out with for the wrinkle removal tutorial. I just copied it from the website.

 And here's the final image after I removed all the wrinkles with the healing brush tool using the tutorial. It was pretty easy. All I had to do was select a source and then use the brush to cover up all the wrinkles. Not much to it. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Digital Makeovers: Whiten Teeth

Okay, here's the original image I used for the whiten teeth tutorial. It's really small because it's the only picture I could find that they used that was unchanged. Anyway, you can still see the difference between this one and the final picture.

 Here's the final image after the teeth and eye whitening. I used the dodge tool method because the image was so small I could not make a selection of the teeth to do the other 2 methods. Anyway, the dodge tool seems to be good at whitening and things like that. Hope you enjoy!

Digital Makeovers: Eye Makeup

Here's the original image I used for the eye makeup tutorial. I just copied it from the website.

 Here's the final product after I did the tutorial. It was really easy. I just followed the steps on the tutorial.... I'm not really sure what eyeliner is so I don't know if I did the last step right. Anyway, hope you enjoy!