Day 364: Magazine Layout

Here is my take on a magazine tutorial. I spent quite a while rewriting the instructions so I can use this in my class. I like the picture and colors I used much better than the original.

Day 363: When Pugs Attack

Another shot of my vicious dog attacking a St. Bernard named Lucy. Multiple layers, blending modes, filters and adjustments. It reminds me of a pulp western painted book cover.

Day 362: Racing Barney

Here is a shot of Barney at the dog park in Arizona.

Day 361: Yearbook Test Shot

Here is a test image for the opening spreads.

Day 360: Smoky Red

I created this image manipulation that was inspired by this tutorial.

Day 359: X-Mas Layer Styles

I ran across a series of holiday (pre-made) layer styles. Nothing fancy but I'm on vacation :)

Day 358:Merry Christmas

Slivers of holiday favorites. Merry Christmas!!!!

Day 357: Gel Text

When I assigned my class to find their own text effects several students did this tutorial. I liked the overall look so much that I had to try it out. The technique was relatively quick and the inclusion of the top copy of the text adds the perfect amount of text bevel!

Day 356: Woven Text

I've found a new text effect tutorial site that I'm really liking. Here is one of the effects.

Tutorial link

Day 355: Academics Sidebars Part2

More test images

Day 354: Academics Sidebars Part1

Here are some test images for the academics section of the yearbook.

Day 353: Button Text

I experimented with a old school video game button style over another styled text.

Day 352: Smoke Filled Text

The smoke effect inside of the layer style is a bit funky.

Day 351: Gold Rust

Another straight forward text effect using a series of layers styles. I like the background I made using several textures and a color overlay.

Day 350: Rusty Metal Layer Style

I'm going with some quick and dirty layer styles to play check up from the sheer volume of yearbook work I've been buried under. I'm not overly excited about closing out my 365 days with such simple effects but my time is limited and my workload is not!

Day 349: Gel Text on Ash

Colorful text layer styles contrasted with a ashy white texture.

Day 348: Movie Poster

Day 347: Basketball Texture

A rubbery basketball text effect. If you zoom in the texture looks more realistic.

Day 346: Chalk Text

A series of simple layer styles to create a faux chalk effect. Nothing fancy but I'm once again buried in yearbook deadlines.

Day 345: Senior Picture P3

Day 344: Senior Picture P2

Here is another flyer.

Day 343: TextEffects for Class

Here are the finished versions of my current CGD project.

Day 342: Senior Photo

Senior Picture ('11) flyer #1

Day 341: Barney Gallop

More pug pictures from Saturday. This time I showcase Barney with all four feet off of the ground (although only a little bit).

Day 340: Pug Run

Here are a bunch of pugs (none of which are my dog- imagine that!) Slight filters and faux HDR.

Day 339: Vitamin C Grunge

Interesting textures and idea although somewhat simple.

Tutorial link

Day 338: Winston

At the PugMeetup I took a great picture of Winston (a 15 year old pug). I applied several different colorpencil and painting effects, some lighting and some sharpening.

Day 337; Painted Pugs and Wife

So I'm already back to using the faux painting techniques again. This time I used a picture from a recent pug meet up at a park.

Day 336: X-Mas Card

I'm not sure if we are going to use this one or not but I like the idea :)

Day 335: Yearbook Ad Flyer

We are coming down to the final deadline for yearbook ad sales so I created yet another flyer.

Day 334: Spark Text

OK text effect but nothing fancy.

Tutorial link

Day 333: Yearbook Birthday Card

I recreated the cover of Call of Duty Black Ops as best I could without the same fonts. This birthday card image was for one of my students (MARK).

Day 322: Painted Cabrillo Lighthouse

I'm addicted to the painted effect right now... I'll most likely burn it out and not go back to it for a long time.  We'll see :)

Day 331: Antonio Gates Part7

Here's a painted version of one of my shots.

Day 330: Antonio Gates Part6

Day 329: Antonio Gates Part5

Day 328: Antonio Gates Part4

Day 327; Antonio Gates Part3

I love this shot! Gates had a great sense of humor through the shoot and his playfulness shows as he emerges from the "ground".

Day 326: Antonio Gates part2

Second post. The shoot was on a cold night and Gates spent time under a constant spray of water from a firehose. He had a great attitude and was really nice to the kids who showed up to watch the shoot.

Day 325: Antonio Gates part1

Several weeks ago I was lucky enough to take photos of Antonio Gates while he was filming a ESPN spot for Monday night football. I had to sit on these photos until the spot was aired during tonight's Monday Night Football game. It was hard not to show anyone these shots but over the next few days I'm going to post some of my favorite shots.

What a fantastic opportunity!

Day 324: Comic Cabrillo

Continuing my Cabrillo themed designs, here is another photo I took at of the lighthouse at Cabrillo. I used a surface blur, added grain and applied multiple color halftone patterns to the image to create a comic style effect. I dropped in some text and applied some layer styles on the text using some of the blues from the window.

Day 323: Cabrillo Statue

Before and After



Several textures, a high pass filter, curve adjustments on RGB channels, some masking and viola!

Day 322: Paint and Color Pencil

I merged together two separate art tutorials (the colored pencil one from a few days ago and this one). I started with the impressionist painting and followed the steps up to the selective color settings. I then went through the colored pencil steps but skipped the selective color settings on this one as well. I found the selective color settings to be a bit too strong and wanted to stay closer to the original color scheme.

Way fun!

Day 321: Painted Surfer

Here's a picture I took of a surfer near Cabrillo park over the summer. The painted effect was created using a series of filters.

Tutorial Link

Day 320; Mosaic Circles

This was an easy technique to create an interesting result. I created the first one using an 8pixel pattern and the second one using a 20 pixel pattern,

Tutorial link

Day 319: Colored Pencil Comparison

The "Blah" version was created using the default colored pencil filter in photoshop. The second image was created using a series of 10 different filter applications including blurs, smudge stick, film grain and paitn daubs. I didn't use all of the same settings as the tutorial, choosing instead to reduce the dark black outlines.

Tutorial link

Day 318: Candy Cane and Snow

Here is a desaturated and unnatural snow-like scene combined with some candy cane text.