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.

Day 317: Underwater Text

Somewhat tedious and may not be worth the time.

Tutorial link

Day 316: Shadow Principal

Here is a shot of the principal I took during a sports photo shoot. I dropped a texture over the image and faded it out. Somewhat simple technique but my week has been crazy busy with yearbook deadlines and editing.

Day 315: Family Ties Title

A series of flourishes masked with the text, some inner shadow and drop shadows complete the look.

Day 314: Tattoo mod

Day 313: More Mods

Day 312: Fashion Mod

Module for the Yearbook

Day 311: WaterPolo

I'm buried in yearbook deadlines so there have been (and will most likely continue to be) a glut of yearbook related designs since I have little time for other stuff. Here is a tweaked out version of  a great photo from one of my photographers.

Day 310: SideFlourish

Testing out various brushes for sidebar picture.

Day 308/309; More Yearbook Sidebars

More "painted" images. The hardest part was figuring out which images would work with the triangular flourishes. With all of the time I spent on this I'm counting it as two "days" worth of work.

Day 307: Painted Yearbook Goodness

I worked on a few Sidebar images for the yearbook... these are just a portion of the full images.

Day 306: Sports Stats

Here are the six varsity Sports stats for the first deadline.

Day 305: Carpet Text

Using one of the layerstyle preset from yesterday I added a fabric texture to create a glossy, carpeted look. The background is a series of roughed up brushes and colors. I added some lighting effects and lens flare set to screen to add variation to the background.

Day 304: 15 Layer Styles

I found some create Layer Styles (some of which actually look pretty good). Here is the link to download the presets.