This image is originally colored and turned into black and white. I went to Image> Adjustments> Threshold. I typed in 128 in the box and clicked Ok. It was all I had to do. I didn’t learn this skill, but it’s an easy process of making your entire image from turning from color to black …
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Working with Text
For this project, I added the a new pattern and click one with the “Bevel and Emboss” selected. On the “Text Fill”, I double-clicked the layer and made a few adjustments in the Drop Shadow section. I put the Opacity to 85%, Distance to 7, and the Blend Mode to Normal. I lowered the fill …
Extend and Fill Selection
There was something interesting about the Magic Wand tool. I extended it to 50% (I don’t remember how) and added a new color to both shapes I’ve selected using the Paint Bucket tool. It was unusual because I didn’t know there was that sort of technique in Photoshop and thought you could only do it …
Content Aware Extend 1 & Content Aware Extend Background 2
From these two projects I’ve learned a little bit about how the Crop tool works. It be used to extend the background image but not the object. When extending, I hold Alt while moving both sides. I moved the top part as well. To make sure that both top and sides aren’t moving at the …
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Animal Portrait Project
I took me weeks to complete this project. At first, I was unsure because I didn’t know where to place to triangle around the cat’s face, but I did the best I as could. I also did added the some with the mouth and the nose. When done, I selected the entire thing, clicked on …
Chapter 10: Live Paint Eye
I’ve really liked this project because it gave me a knowledge how to color a object or shape by using the Live Paint Bucket tool. It was very efficient. I love this tool because I really love to color. It’s not just about coloring – when you drag hover your mouse onto the object using …
Chapter 10: Live Paint
Here’s my artwork of a rose. I’ve already learned how to use the Live Paint Bucket tool, so I selected the entire rose and use it to color different areas of it. I didn’t want to the rose to look entirely red so I chose different colors like magenta and dark pink. I used different …
Chapter 10: Construction
This project was pretty simple – I had to test one of the Pathfinder tools to see how it works because all different types of them are different. There’s Outline, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline, and Minus Bac for the bottom part and Unite, Minus Front, Intersect, and Exclude for the top part. The interesting part …
Chapter 10: Shape Builder
I’m not very good at using the Shape Builder tool because I’m somewhat confused at seeing how it works. But the thing I’ve learned about is that certain lines and shapes of the object can disappear when you drag different lines of the shape. It’s very handy to get rid of undesired parts of an …
Ad Illustrator: Retro Chrome Text Project
I was quite sloppy of this project and had some difficulty on navigating some of the tools, so I couldn’t add the background until the end. But things got easier when I adjusted the Gradient color fills of what I used in the Appearance panel. Even certain things didn’t work out the way I expected, …
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