Archive for December, 2008
Comments(1)Photoshop Sunday: A Grunge, Desktop, and a T-shirt
So for my second week of Photoshop Sunday, I actually started on something that actually required me to learn a little more; improve my skills (as I should). What ended up happening is after 4 hours I decided I hated what I had created and scrapped it. Instead, I’ve got some of my older stuff to post. ( I actually do eventually plan to create something fresh and original to post each week).
The first was done strictly with brushes I found from a few different artists.. kinda mixed n matched them. The second was a design I was actually paid for (hope they don’t know about this blog… but I don’t remember signing anything so I should be good). The third was just a desktop background I made a few weeks ago messing around with an image our company has used a few times.
PhotoShop Sunday: Random Design
For the last month or so I’ve spent each Sunday morning goofing around on Photoshop. I plug in a movie, bust open the Macbook and just keep trying to learn more about graphic design. I figured since most of the designs are amateur quality and I haven’t had plans to put them anywhere I should share some. I also need some motivation to blog.. about something. Anything. At least for while.
Here are a few I’ve I did or edited in the last few weeks of sundays.
The first was actually originally a design Dan of www.todaywasawesome.com suggested I do (it had some other aspects I’ve removed). Last week, I removed the other pieces of it - and determined it looked better with a simple photoshop filter applied.
On the second: I first used a variety of brushes I found online, the majority from www.deviantart.com. - I started with a strong background. With the brushes I used mixed colors, mixed application modes (normal, lighten, color burn, etc). Then took the remaining and did some minor ‘liquify’ effects, then messed around with a few filters, curve modifications etc.
The Third: Couple more brushes on a plain background, this time messing with blending/layer options to get the bevel/3d and the shadowing. This one though simple, got me really thinking about some designs for next week.
See you then.
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Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
Rinse, repeat.