#8 Somewhere

To create this photo, I chose a picture I had taken from home as well as a full-body portrait of myself and combined them together to make it look as though I was standing on top of the mountain. After adding the photo of myself into the background image, I used the magic wand tool to trace the outline of my body, however, you can also use the pen tool for more accuracy. Next, I used the eraser tool to remove any bits that made it stick out and look unrealistic. The burning tool was also used to darken up the edges and create a shadow on my face since there is a ray of sun going over me. I used the dodge tool to brighten the top of my face since that's where the sun is hitting it. To create the shadow in front of me, I copied the entire cutout of my body, changed it to all black, skewed and distorted it to make it go in front of me below my feet, and then used the eraser tool to make it less harsh.

#7 Autoscopy

For this project we had to select images from the internet or ones that we had previously taken that were of a high resolution. Each individual photo had to be uploaded into AdobePhotoshop to be edited. For some of the edits I adjusted the hue and vibrancy, blurred them, made them looking like oil paintings, changed them to black and white, and switched up the levels of saturation as well as adding filters. The goal of this project was to make them look drastically different and sometimes a bit unrealistic. After all ten photos were edited, they were merged together into one file on Adobe Acrobat.

Vintage Zoo Poster (Illustrator)

Created on Adobe Illustrator

#5 Gradient

For this project I had to find an image of a fruit on the internet and then move it into Illustrator. The first thing I did was trace the outline of the image, and then I had to create a gradient mesh in order to recreate the gradient of the fruit. The highlights and shadows of the fruit were copied by outlining the area and then pasting it onto the new lemon. To get the exact colors of the highlights and shadows I used the eyedropper tool to select the original color of it and transfer it to the new lemon. Lastly, the texture was added and changed color accordingly to replicate the pores of the lemon and give it another dimension.

#4 Business Cards

To create these business cards in Illustrator, I first created six 3.5in x 2in rectangular boxes to copy and paste into a file on illustrator. Next, I copied my logos into the designated cards and starting editing. I changed the background color on each card to give them each a different appearance, I centered the logos differently, and I changed the fonts of the informative writing. On the middle business card, I reflected the logo on the back side to make it appear as though you're looking through it. On the bottom business card I chose to two contrasting colors on each side.

#3 Logos

To create these logos, I first had to come up with a business idea and name. I thought a store that sold alcoholic icees would be popular in Tampa, and the name "Frost" seemed simple, modern, and bold. Next, I found images online that could be used to best represent my business such as a snowflake, penguin, and icicles. I traced these images with the pen tool to make them my own and then added in the text in different fonts and colors. I think that all three are very different and would be effective in giving my business the face that I want it to have.

#2 Line Art

The process of this Line Art project began with importing a line art image from the internet and using the pen tool to create different anchor points along the lines. Once you created an anchor point, you held the cursor until you reached your next desired point and from there drew the curve to best fit the original line. Straight lines were a bit easier to trace since you didn't have to create the curve. After all the lines were traced, the text was added.