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.
These are amazing! I tried to use PS last week and after 2 hours I wasn’t getting anywhere. If things at your job don’t workout you could fall back on a design career.
i really like the second one.