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 :)