Wednesday, April 29, 2009
CIOS 152 Final Part 3 (ending)
Okay so take your Elliptical Marquee tool and select the shiny flare, hold down the shift key while draging to get a perfect circle. Then under the select tab click inverse. Then take your eraser tool and erase all of the selected area.
After you have erased that, unselect everything and go to the blending mode and select Screen.
(should look like this)
Have your planet layer selected. Then go under image and select adjustments, hue and saturation. Change the Hue until you get the disired color of your planet. Should your whole picture start changing colorsjust hit okay then hold alt and click the line between the hue and saturation layer and your planet. Feel free to play with the hue and saturation until you get the desired color and density of color.
After that select image, adjustments, levels. Then slide the same black slider we have been using, leaving it at 0 makes a bright planet, 40 makes a little planet glow, and a 100 make almost no glow. select your desired brightness.
(should look like this)
Duplicate your planet layer and change the hue and satiration, and levels to create diffrent colors and brightness and place the planets around your galaxy. After you have created a few more planets if you wish you will have your galaxy. (feel free to go back and play with the noise opacity and levels along with everthing else until you are happy with the colors and brightness)
(end result should look like this)
Enjoy your own personal universe.
End of transmission.
CIOS 152 Final Part 2
Okay after you have added noise (your stars) you need to go to the blend mode and select Screen.
Okay now we are going to get ride of the weak stars that are making the picture not look so good. Go to Image, Adjustment, Levels and move the same black slider we did before to 170 (you can change this later if you want more or less stars)
(should look like this)
Now we have our stars we are going to move to the final part the planets. Create a new layer and fill it with black from your paint bucket tool.
This completes part 2
CIOS 152 Final Part 1
First make a new document in photoshop and make sure it is 600 width and 400 height in pixals, (you can go bigger once you get the steps down) then take you paint bucket tool and fill your background layer with black.
(should look like this)
Now we are going to create more space go under the image tab, select adjustments, then select levels or just hit ctrl+L. pull the black slider on the input levels until you get ride of you light clouds. I find pulling it to 20 to be the best. This will darken up your galaxy. then click okay. And now we have our nebulas.
Now we are going to create the stars for our galaxy. First create a new layer. Then fill it with black with your paint bucket tool.
(should look like this)
Now go under the filter tab and select Noise, add Noise. For the amount type 30 and select Gaussian and Monochromatic. then select okay.
(should look like this)
This completes part one.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 7 Masks
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 6
So i decided to do a landscape becuase i was having way too much trouble doing my other project. My first idea was to take three photos two side by side and the third in the middle of both but a little higher to make a triangle of photos to stitch but i came into way too many problems with perseption. so my bottom photo is of the three pictures unedited just layed into place. I started by darkinging the right most photo because the first two were close enough. I started by making another layer and filling it with black, i then picked the darken blend mode and played with the opacity until i was happy. I then used a mix of eraser on 10%, 20%, 30%, 50% and 80% to cut down at the lines as must as possible. I then merged the photos so i could work on them as a whole, I used the blur tool to get rid of the ripples in the water because they didn't line up properly. I then added another layer filled it with black and did as i did with the third picture to make the picture feel more like one.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 5 Focus and Filters
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 4 Zac the Cat
This was a very fun project, my only regret is that I colored inside the lines, my inner 6 year old is screaming at me.
To start I opened a new document in Photoshop in 700 by 700 pixels. I then started a new layer and placed the Zac Cat half image. Then I duplicated the layer and flipped it horizontally. I moved the image into place to the point where I feel it was even. I then merged the layers. After that I went to Color range under the select menu and used the eye dropper tool to select the black. This gives my all the black of that value, I then inverted the selection and erased all the white, it did take a little bit of black away from the edges but overall it helped sharpen my image because it was a little blurry from where I placed it. After that I locked the pixels it’s the little checker board button in the layers tab. I then colored the black lines in different colors. After that I duplicated the layer and filled the white spaces in the lower of the two layers with the paint bucket tool. Then I added texture twice on the lower of the two layers the first is the nose which I used the clouds texture on hard light blending. The second texture Metal Landscape I used for the face. I used texture and the black dots to bring the lookers eyes out form the complex textures to the clean easy solid colors on the outside to see the whole picture.
Quick ref ;P
1. Open new document
2. Make new layer
3. Place image
4. Duplicate layer
5. Flip horizontally
6. Merge layers
7. Color range from select menu select black lines
8. Invert selection
9. Erase white
10. Lock transparent pixels and then color
11. Duplicate layer and fill in white spaces with color on the lower image
12. Add texture to layer with brush on lower image (use a blend mode)
13. Then save as Photoshop file and JPG
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 3 part 2 dancing
CIOS 152 Project 3 part 1 selection
I used the Rectanguler marquee tool twice once for veritcal and the second as "add to selection" to make a large cross in the middle of my file. Then still using the rectanguler marquee tool on add to selection mode, I made the four outer squares. Then i used the Elliptical marquee tool with subtract form selection and clicked the upper left corner with the shift key held down and draged it to the lower right corner and let it go to cut out that area. Then using the Polygonal lasso to make each of the triangles by making three points, which cut out that area of the selection. Then i used the paint bucket tool once to fill in everything i had selected.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
CIOS 152 Project 2 part 2 Color
CIOS 152 Project 2 part 1 adjustments
Sunday, January 18, 2009
CIOS152-KD1 Digital Imaging Orientation Quiz
My life is rather well all around. I’m healthy happy and content.
B. What are your specific goals for this class?
To increase my skills in Graphic design and hope to use what I have learning to earn a living.
C. What was your first experience with computers and imaging
technology like?
I first came in contact with imaging software and technology in high school where I took desktop design.
D. Do you usually work on a Mac or a PC and why?
I usually work on a PC, the reason would be because that is what I was brought up on, what I work with at my job, and what I use at home.
E. What is your experience level with Photoshop or image editing
programs?
I have used Photoshop for a lot of fun things and have even made a Photoshop portfolio on Facebook for my friends to see. I’m not a novice at Photoshop but I still have great potential and seek to reach it.
F. What is something you liked about your day today?
I liked having today off from work lol. I enjoy the simple things if life and just being able to get up and walk on my own is enough for me.
G. How do you plan to use what you learn in this class?
I plan to use it to the fullest extent possible. I wish to live off of my graphic design talent and hard work.
H. What would make this class go very well for you?
For there to be an assignment link on the homesite to upload homework and classwork tasks.
I. How do you plan to make this class go very well for you?
By working hard and enjoying every minute of it even if I struggle.
J. What do you do for creativity?
I play dungeons and dragons on a rather constant basis which allows for complete creativity, from day to day chores to how to defeat that amazing super boss.
K. Who are John and Thomas Knoll?
If I had to guess they would be famous graphic designers or photographers or computer designers. Anyway I don’t know for sure, however not only am I sure I’ll be learning about them names don’t matter besides in the copy right it is what they have brought to the world of graphic design that interests me.
L. Do you own or have access to a color image scanner?
I have access to a scanner and it does scan in color.