Visit Pandora, Again!

I got some awesome feedback from my Design Instructor on my last Visit Pandora guide cover, and here’s the new and improved version.

What I did:

Drop shadows and beveled edges for framing and separating images.
Remove All CAPS or small caps … tough top read than upper and lower case.
Anti-alias the headermore
Decrease the leading between the head [...]

Before Sunset

One of my favorite movies is Before Sunset. For one of the Photoshop exercises, I created an imaginary poster for this movie.

I wanted to show the two lead characters, in fact the only ones, in a silhouette-ish layer to convey the idea that they have been living in the shadow of their encounters 9 years [...]

A Yoga Room to Call My Own

Tonight’s lecture was on using Adobe Bridge as a Digital Asset Management tool, and one exercise was on the use of shadow and lighting.

I was to transform this room into anything I wanted:

Just another empty apartment room.

I thought, hey, why not my own Yoga space? And so, making it into my dream yoga room, [...]

Pandora Tourism Brochure

What if the Department of Tourism needed a Tourist brochure? Here’s something I thought would be fun to make to play around with Filters.

A Pandora Visitors Guide Brochure Cover

Filters used:

Unsharp mask
Craquelure
Water paper
Texturizer
Posterize
Cut-out
Glowing Edge

Images aren’t mine, I just cropped and filtered them. Thank you to all the artists for putting them out there so I [...]

Relief From Photoshop Addiction, an Advertisement

I worked on this ad today, using basic typography tricks including Type Masking, Drop Shadowing, and Warping.

Ask your doctor today. Drugs for Facebook and Twitter forthcoming.

Photoshop for Fun and Profit

I’ve been playing/working with layers, and here’s a sample.

A lodge cabin before surgery

And… here’s what the post-surgery Heidi Montag version looks like:

If you can landscape in real life, there's always Photoshop

Some things I did:

Using some advanced selection methods like Color Range, Quick Mask, and Extract Filter.
Using Alpha Channel Mask for layering.
Using Transform and [...]

Photoshop is Ruining my Life!

This is what a friend of my told me when we were in college. He was in the Art School studying Visual Design, and he said that he can’t look at Maxim or any of those skin magazines the same way anymore. “All I see is Photoshop retouching!”, he’d exclaim.

And oh, yes, I do know [...]