Monicka’s Blog

Our little photo story about a friendly alien coming from space to visit two girls in ITB…..

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Sit down … relax …. and enjoy ……

In today’s lesson we were working with actual photographs. We used the clone stamp tool on this motorbike photo to add one more motorcyclist and more people to the crowd (I decided to create 3 families of identical sibblings – just for the fun of it )

The next picture we were working on was an old photo of a girl that had a lot of scratches, fold lines and dust marks on it. We used the clone stamp tool (which is one of my favourites), spot healing brush and patch tool. Here are the two photographs for you to compare:

We got a very interesting assignment to create 8 drawings of our names showing our likes and dislikes (4 for each). This exercise was supposed to help us learn basic tools and process of designing. Have a look at the pitures below and try to guess what do I love and what do I hate

LOVE

I could come up with more ideas of things that I love… And what are they – did you guess right? (I love fruit&veg, nature, TV, cooking / eating and drinking, sunshine, tea / coffee)

HATE

So – what do I hate..? Smoking / cigarettes, spiders, rain and football..

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And to practice our Photoshop skills we got a task to turn one of the drawings into a digitalised image – I loved this task (even though it took a lot of time to complete it):

In today’s class we recapped on last week’s work with pen tool  and paths by drawing a heart. We then used the freeform pen tool to draw our name which we then made more fancy by applying the brush and stroke path tools.

After finishing the above we moved onto digitalizing a scanned image by using the Photoshop tools that we were already familiar with – pen and brush tools, layers, freeform pen, textured brush, burn tool, filters (texturiser – this was a new one). I enjoyed creating the blue sky in the background with the help of the gradient tool.

Here is the scanned image and the result for you to compare: