Day 151: Gradient Map

This is a photo I took on my roadtrip through Nevada. It's a desolate section of the 6 West. I applied a gradient map to the image using a deep blue and a light blue mixed with black and white. I also masked off teh yellow stripes and applied a hue/saturation to bring out more of the color. If you look off into the distance you can see the text I placed at the end of the road.

Day 150: Grunge Rock Poster

 Once again I spent way too much time on this. I had to extract the model from the background of three different images before I began work on the actual piece. I struggled getting the hair right. I need to find a faster way to extract hair naturally.

On a positive note I found a stock photographer on Deviantart that is fantastic!!!



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Day 149: Barney Calendar

Alright, so maybe I'm a little obsessed with my dog. I made this calendar of Barney for Tracey. I printed each month on photopaper and cut them down to fit in a CD case for displaying. I can see using this type of layout for quite a few gifts for several different people (although I may have to swap out the pictures of my dog... well maybe :)

Day 148: Flaming Car

I download to sets of brushes for flames and lines. My favorite part was using the gradient to create a noisy chromatic scale and then distorted to created speed lines.

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Day 147: 60's Tracey Poster

From inside jokes and inside knowledge, coupled with another one of my favorite subjects, this was a tremendous amount of fun to make.

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Day 146: Charlie Text

Here is a text portrait of my nephew Charlie. I created this by using a series of color selections. desaturation and masks. The text if from the poem "What little boys are made of". I had to tweak with the contrast quite a bit to get some of the shadows. I also had to eliminate the sky and horizon in order to get a clean outline of his head and shoulders. Overall, the effect worked nicely (plus the subject matter was cute!).

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Day 145: Leather Texture

Leather from Scratch:. Stain Glass filter (twice), noise and lighting effects (omni and spotlight) then applied a hue/saturation. The best part was learning about the adding multiple lighting sources with the Omni direction filter (small light bulb in preview window).

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