Christmas Card

For this Christmas Card I put on a red background with the paint tool. Then I learned how to cut the snowman and christmas tree out using the quick selection tool and the magic wand tool. I also cut out a hat and layered it on top of the snowman to give him a hat. The next thing I did was put in some text. I used a christmas looking font to say "merry christmas!". I used a handwriting font for the back of the card to put my name and information on it as a copy write. I learned how to make snow look like its falling using a black background, then I added noise. I blurred the noise to make it look more vertical and like it's falling instead of just dots. Then to erase the black I added a screen filter. To make the snow look more dimensional I copied the layer and rotated it 180 degrees and increased the blur even more this helped make it look like bigger flakes and like some snow was falling faster than others. The last thing I did was to add a drop shadow to the writing, the snowman, his hat, and the christmas tree so they were more visible.

Grunge Portrait

I made this grunge portrait using two layers. I turned my photo to black and white, then I increased the contrast. Next I converted the photo to water color. Then I added channels and inverted the picture so the bottom layer would show through and look slightly grungy. Then I used a grunge brush and I colored over the picture using many different vibrant colors.

Old Gruene Hall

In this picture I used the same techniques as the first one. I applied an inner glow using the color burn blending mode. I next did a hue and saturation change by placing the hue at 35, the saturation at 20 and the light at 18. I added an adjustment layer. I applied three covering layers that made it look more old fashioned and gave some wear and tear.

Old Picture

This is an old picture done with three steps.

My grinch Cube

Malerie and I with my Grinch cube.

The Grinch

I copy and pasted all of these picture from photoshop into the boxes. Then I fitted them into their own squares.