Concert Flyer Barney

Barney is my favorite subject... It's a sickness : )

Retro/Drawn Photo experiment

I started by following a simple tutorial and then added a few tweaks. This began with a few adjustment layers (brightness, curves, hue/saturation) then a fill layer of yellow set to overlay and a fill layer of magenta set to screen. I stamped the result and ran a find edges filter, set it to overlay and  masked out the skin and hand. I dropped an oxidized blue metal rust texture on top set it to soft light. I'm experimenting with the photo/drawn look. This is not quite where I want it yet... more experimentation needed.

SDCUE Science Version

SDCUE Tech Flyer

SDCUE Call for Speakers

Roadtrip Barney

I took my dog on a short roadtrip along the coast of California. We found a rest stop near Pismo Beach and he posed on the train tracks for me. A few curves adjustments, some fill color layers, some sharpening and viola...

SDCUE Tech Fair Final Logo

Here is the finalized Science logo for the San Diego Computer-Using Educators Tech Conference.

SDCUE Logo

Here is the logo for the San Diego Computer-Using Educators Tech Conference.

Captain America

At ComicCon I took this picture of a guy dressed as retro Captain America. Using a halftone filter and a graphic pen filter I created the overlay effect. I added a sepia warming adjustment and blended a few textures to create the background, flag and paper texture. I like the overall effect but am not too happy with the bottom of the shield.

Neon Text Effect

Cool tutorial that was relatively simple. You have to look at the larger version to see all of the detail.

Commie Cosmonaut Pug

I found a fantastic (although long) tutorial to create this image. Using a series of stock images and tons of blending modes, I thoroughly enjoyed following this author's technique. I deviated a bit because several of the images he used were not available without a watermark (plus I had to work in an image of Barney :)

Tech Fair Logos

After yesterday's SDCUE board meeting I started tweaking with a few variations on a logo for the upcoming Tech Fair.

Grunge Pop Art Barney

Back to using one of my favorite subjects :)

Vintage Faux Instamatic

I used three different textures, a few blending modes and faux instamatic action set.

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BEFORE

Revolution Stock Image

I found this image on deviantart.com. I made some tone adjustments, tweaked with the vibrance and clarity of the image, high pass filter, some curves and color balance. Dropped a slight lens correction and called it a day.

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After

What's stopping you?

I ran across a cool blog post from Seth Godin (a marketing guru). I really liked it so I made a quick mini poster that I will hang in my class. The text is a little hard to read in the numbers so i may have to go back and rework that ... well maybe :)

The beauty of a '57 Chevy Bel Air

Text Effect (primarily a gradient overlay, stroke set to the opposite gradient, a bevel and emboss and an inner shadow). The drop shadow was created using an expanded version of the original text layer. The glossy outer stroke was an expanded version of the original text with a Ring bevel and emboss style. Drop a vignette, a scripted text font, and a flare and glowing line on the CLASSIC and call it done.

Soft Focus Still Life

After Before

Inspirational Typography Poster

Barney G is Money!

I'm experimenting with displacement maps  and bitmap halftones in an attempt to replicate the portraiture style found on our currency. Not too shabby but it would worked better with a lighter face (human).

I love Bacon!

I toyed with creating a Lomo effect action. After trying it out on several images, I found the bacon struck a cord with me. The action consists of a rough lasso selection with a 90pt feather, invert select and make a new layer mask. Fill new layer with black then crank up the middle levels change blending mode to hue and lower opacity to 40. Change Mode to LAB, select Lightness channel, apply unsharp mask then change back to RGB mode.




Here is the before image

Grunge Text

Tweaking with new grunge brushes, a San Diego skyline and a "hidden" conquistador :)

Plantscape Text

Simple tutorial (nothing more than a few clipped paths and a texture). The Planet Kosmos font is one that I use in yearbook for some signage. I used a photo from the Hubble telescope. I dropped a high pass filter on the background image and then a light vignette. I added a light outer glow to the text and set it to Overlay.

Emma Frost Vector Effects

I used Illustrator and Photoshop to create a blend of vector and photo materials. Lots of blending modes, brush adjustments and layer styles. In the end I'm not overly excited by the final results. Ah well :)

Long Island Mike's New Menu

Here is the redesigned menu for Long Island Mike's Pizza. (Did I mention before how good the food is? :)

Logo Fix

I donated some time and redrew the low resolution version of their existing logo for a local pizza shop (Long Island Mike's). The pizza is fantastic and the owner is a really nice guy. We had our end of the year Yearbook party there and he took good care of us. I also gave him a couple of experimental versions.

Here are the various color tweaks he asked for:

Retro Super Hero: Batman

Retro Super Hero: Green Lantern

Next in line in the DC Universe Figure... Green Lantern.

Retro Super Hero: Superman

First in a series of figures :)

Tutorial Link

Pin Up Effect

Using one of my favorite characters on TV (Joan from MadMen) I created a vintage pin up style effect from the following image:

Here is the after (Check out her hair and dress for the smoothed out, painted effect):

Tutorial Link

Dragan Effect

I stumbled across the bizarre photography work of Andrzej Dragan some time ago. Recently I found a tutorial that attempted to simulate his technique. I deviated a bit from the tutorial in order to generate the background for the portrait.

Here is the before

and the after

Tutorial link

Vintage Sports Card

This was a fun way to create a retro sports card. I used a photo I took at a Serra Football game. I wish I would have had a picture of our stands to use instead of the generic one I found.

Football Grunge

I really like the original picture so I tweaked with it again. I found some really cool old paper textures, tweaked with the color balance, high pass, texturizer and sharpening. Fun stuff.

Text Portrait

Time consuming process of creating separate brushes for each word. Posterized then select black and brush words individually with size variations. Create another layer and fill with a pattern of the same words. Expand selection around words to get the outline of the letters. Repeat steps for the Dark Grey areas, then again for the light grey. Add color. I then added two additional copies of the original posterized image, adjusted the blending modes to bring more of the original image out.

Tutorial Link

And the final set of Sidebars for the time being :)

Really? More sidebars?! :)

Yet again more Sidebars

Even more sidebars