LO2: Live Trace

Opened photograph in Adobe Illustrator and selected Live Trace. Hand drawn sketch, colour mode, maximum colours of 256 and minimum area of 50pixels were selected. Live Trace applied.

LO2 Capturing Images: Capture using a digital still camera

First I used a digital camera to take a photograph of a street in Banchory.
I then transferred the digital image via USB to a computer and opened it in Photoshop.
I resized the image to 800 pixels high.
I then adjusted the RGB levels and increased the saturation.
I then added a digital watermark.

LO2 Capturing Images: Capture & digitise from an analogue source

First I used a scanner to acquire a digital image of a Thank You card's design.
I then rotated it in Photoshop and manipulated the image.
The image was cropped, then a photo filter with no luminosity was applied.
The image was then cropped further and the RGB levels were altered.
I then applied the blur tool to some of the letters and leaf designs in the image.

Before saving I embedded my property rights into the image as a form of image protection. Then I embedded a digital watermark as well.

I like shapes

boredom doodle

Flash animations

My little flash animations on stories from when I was 9 years old. Click the animation to view full size and in motion :)

PS Brushes are fun.

Animated Face using Flash

Not my first attempt at Flash but I'm still pretty clueless at the mo with it! But at least I got my animation to work :) Silly face movements hehe.

A lack of apostrophes is bugging me

Just out of interest (and a current fight I'm having with many people) - how does everyone here spell Hallowe'en? Have you all been taught that it has an apostrophe or not? Apparently Aberdeen schools are teaching the lazy American spelling without the apostrophe and kids don't even know why there should be one.

For those who don't know, maybe you shouldn't celebrate Hallowe'en until you do. Hallowe'en has an apostrophe because it is two words combined. This is known as a Contraction Apostrophe. The words combined are Hallows and Evening. Hallowe'en is the eve of All Hallows. Also known as All Saints Day. So Hallowe'en is when all the ghouls come out for a party before the goody goody Saints do on All Saints Day.

So come on, own up, who doesn't use the apostrophe? Who didn't even know there should be one?

sunnO))) bears

Haven't been up to much graphics wise lately. Got back into playing with my camera so I'm finding all the tools in PS really fun for manipulating! Also now purely using PS for pixel drawings etc. My friend Erik will kill me for doing so! He says that's what Illustrator's for. But well my version of Illustrator is WAY out of date and it's SO restricting! Really like sketching in PS. Thinking of trying some vector art. This piece is just something I've been mucking about with. It's drawn from a photograph originally and then added to a little. Inspired by the band sunnO))) as well (pronounced sunn). I've got about a thousand layers in this psd file!! Want a nickel of free advice? NAME YOUR LAYERS WHEN YOU CREATE THEM. That way when sifting through tons of them you know which each tiny bit it. What's the outline of what, what's the colouring of what etc. Really handy when you end up with loadssss of stuff!! I originally made this image on a pale creamy background with more multicoloured splashes (look below) btu I've done several other versions. I like dark stuff too and pink hence the one above. And my partner asked me to make him a couple of more macho versions in white and red. They turned out pretty cool but these two are definitely my faves.

Victorian Curtain drawings update :s

Currently doing more research on the Victorians for my group project. Learning stuff about schools now, I looked at their fashion the other day. We finished our mockups the other day in PS so nothing else but the next stages to do I spose. My curtain design needs rethinking perhaps... well... redrawn I guess. I'll probably try doing it with the graphics tablet instead of the mouse as my mouse drawn curtains are....

Pixel Perfect

Anyone watch any of the Rev3 podcasts? I've been watching diggnation for over a year now but they've started making so many others I thought I'd have a read about some and then download a few on iTunes. Watched The Totally Rad Show last night It was rubbish. I fell asleep! Alex Albrecht needs Kevin Rose or to just be on his own. His co-hosts on The Totally Rad Show are so very very dull! Watched a few episodes of the Rev3 Gazette - so boring and not at all THAT insightful. But I was slightly impressed by Pixel Perfect. The hosts are pretty weird/annoying/dull/boring BUT they have some great tips for doing stuff in Photoshop. In this week's episode they have great tips on smart objects, layer filters, multiplying to get transparency and making pirate text. I've a feeling I'll learn a lot of good stuff from this podcast despite the boring presenters. You should check it out for free on iTunes or on the Rev3 site: http://revision3.com/pixelperfect

Coloured bear

I don't think I've submitted this before. It's been milling around for a week or so now so I decided to colour it this evening. Originally drawn from a photograph I took a while ago would you believe! :P Though the bear in question isn't really blue ^^ He is just as cool though.

1st Class Night Out

To everyone who didn't come out to the class night out last night - you missed a good time!! Yay to everyone who did come out :D

Doodles

My second try at using the pen tablet this morning. A flying horse and a bear. LOL.

My first try of a graphics/pen tablet

Pretty Good fun! Just did some random doodles.

Street Art Design started...

Started making a layout design for my Street Art website. Just whipped this up in Photoshop. I used loadssss of different brushes. The dry and wet ones were really useful. Also did some rotating, scaling, canvas and image resizing, messed about with lighting, contrast, hues, filters and effects. I wouldn't say my drawing is that cool but I spose it's the best I could do to look like graffiti! :)

WIP - 1880 Reception Dress

Latest update: I pasted in some segments of the original photograph I copied and layered it underneath my sketch. Now I've painted over the top with similar colours from the photograph.

Portfolio Work Raster Pt2.5/Westhill Primary Work - 1880 reception dress sketch

As part of a group project I have to design three pages and a stylesheet for a website on the Victorians. My three pages are to be on the subject of Victorian Fashion & Schooling and how they are different to our modern day equivalents.
I've been researching Google, Google Images etc finding images for my pages and I've started work on something for the layout images. Just a rough sketch based on an 1880 Reception Dress. :D

More on miniaturizing

I found another slightly more detailed tutorial online for miniaturizing, it's pretty much the same as the one in Wired except it specifies which blur filter to use, turns out it was the one I was using! >>> http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

For more pix of fake miniatures try typing Tilt-shift Photography into Google Images or look at the faked versions on the Flickr pool - Tilt-shift miniature fakes pool.