Still Learning

I just purchased three books to help me become a better designer.  I am not going to lie, since I graduated from school I cannot seem to get my creative juices flowing. But hopefully these books will exercise my brain and tap into my inventiveness.  I bought "Visual Literacy: A Conceptual

CompGr2: Composite

Composite Project This was fun and challenging. You take items from several different photos and place them into one photo.  The 4 images needed to be color balanced first. That pink tint had to go! These were the 4 images that I had to use: Crop background image to 8x10 using the Crop

CompGr2: Gamut

I'm sorry but I still do not understand Gamut. So this Video will probably help. But I will show the before picture: Everything is off about this!  First, get rid of the specs and lines that happen when printing and take out whatever that thing is sitting on the left side. Then Color

CompGr2: Retouching.

This past semester I took Computer Graphics 2, which is a little more challenging than 1. I'm going to show pictures from each project! And tell you my grade! The first project was Retouching an old photo. I didn't have one so I had to borrow one from the teacher of an old lady with a glass eye. So

Bokeh Designs

I was playing around with Photoshop CS6 and wanted to learn how to do Bokeh! So I took a random photo and made it blurry and played around with the hue/saturation and the levels. Then, I just used the brush tool on a hard round brush. Inside of the brushes folder in the options bar: I can change

Final Results

Yay! I got a 92% on my Final Exam! My overall class grade was an 89%!

Discouraged

Well class is now finished and I have to say even though I think I did a great job, some of my classmates have done an excellent job. I'm wondering if my work will ever be good enough or creative enough. Some people's work already look like advertisements. My stuff looks artistic but I feel like it