Heavy Metal Album Cover

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This is an album cover for the heavy metal genre. The image is suppose to depict and incorporate an apocalyptic theme.

To produce my album cover I went through a series of stages. First I got an earth texture from the internet then using the elliptical marquee tool I cut out a large circle. I used the spherize filter to make it look 3D. In the layer styles menu I added outer and inner glows to intensify the edges. After that I added in a lens flare for the sun and put some shading on the earth. Then I added text, stars and a rating to make it look professional and it was finished.

The back cover is just some text and a barcode.

Crazy Dancing Green Screen Guys

We started off with a video of crazy guys dancing on a green screen and animated it in Motion. By making a mask with circles on it and using the oscillate tool we get this cool effect. After i got the basics i tried to do something dirrerent and i think it looks pretty good

 

This is a video using key frames in Photoshop CS4. its not very good, but i can see potential in using this sort of animation.

3D Birthday

This is my birthday in 3D text. the tutorial was good and all, but working in 3D is rather annoying. Every time you change it you have to render it again. sometimes the rendering will take up to 5 minutes. Make sure you bring a book when you work in 3D because you going to be waiting a long time.

Avatar Chick

I'm not all that happy about this one. when i finished i noticed that when i was using the masking tool I didn;t do it smooth enouth and left her hair, eyes and lips a bit wonky. i have to keep practicing that and get a better mouse, mine jumps all over the place.

This was just another tutorial from youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n65EE_fqB_g 

Magic

I really enjoyed doing this one. It was just a tutorial from youtube but i think it looks very effective. The processes involved were very basic. This is the link to the tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcWWoURrqY0

Definition And Inspiration

My definition of rubbish is something that doesn’t work the way you wanted it too. My inspiration came from working with my dad. We were hammering some wood on to a wall and he bent the nail and called them rubbish. With the idea of using nails as my “rubbish” it took me a while to decide how I was going to present them. I hammered them into wood and bent them with pliers to make the shape of letters. When I took the photo I put a grunge layer on it in Photoshop. With the grunge look in mind the target audience would be someone who is into that sort of look. Most likely a teenager who enjoys listening to heavy metal music, but it’s possible an adult would like the photo as well.

Rubbish Font After Photoshop

This is what the photo looks like after I edited it in Photoshop. I used a grunge layer that I got from the internet and set the colour blend mode to “colour burn”. I also duplicated it to make the effect stronger. it ended up being too strong so i turned the opacity down.  I think it gave the photo the desired effect I wanted but I’m not happy with the position of the letters and their shape.

Rubbish Font Before Photoshop

This is a photo i took of my font. i used nails and bent them (with great difficulty) into the shapes of letters. it was a lot harder to bend the nails then i thought it would be that’s why they are all different sizes.

Bored. . .

Too lazy to finish this on and make it look good. Less then 10 min job haha.

Image Into Image

i tried to do the image into image again because i wasn't happy with the first one. im not very happy with this one either. i think the girl in the top right still looks wrong for some reason and i didn't know how to make it look better.

Granny Climbs The Alps

This was another experiment we did in class today. it was based on the same concept as the first (insert one image onto another) but this time i tried to make it look good. I blurred the background to make the foreground stand out more. The problems with this image is that i couldn't get the edges to look smooth and in the process of trying to make them look better i made the Granny look bald almost. Its a complex process to perfect but i think i'm getting better, so thats a start.

Sweet As Photoshoping (Not Cheesy At All)

The idea of this lesson was to demonstrate out ability using photoshop. As i am new to photo shop and have no real skill with the program this is the photo i produced. it took some time to get used to it because i am not very comfortable using a Mac, but after a while i got the hang of it and was able to produce this picture. I know its not the best photo but it was just to show the knowledge i have with the program so i wasn't fussed when it turned out a bit stupid looking.