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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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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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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

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