Art Nouveau Slide

If you need to look at my art nouveau slide show, click here 

Adobe Illustrator-Light Bulb

This time we had to use illustrator to make a lightbulb :) heres the original photo:

Now I didn't necessarily finish because I got severely frustrated with Adobe Illustrator so I just stopped before I made myself upset. But as of right now this is what i've done;

Using the pen tool, I made outlines around everything, starting with the Edison screw and ending with the reflections of light (in my opinion the pen tool is a pain. I originally used shapes and merged them all together, but that one looked horrible and it also got deleted so I had to start over). Once I finished outlining I used the gradient and fill bucket tool to fill in the shapes and give the photo some color (when it came to the light reflections I removed the black outline once I was done). After that I just saved it as a png file and posted it here!

I didn't do a lot (unfortunately) but thats what I did! if anything was difficult, it was pretty much everything, Illustrator never works when I use it so I don't like using it...But it was kind of fun I guess!

Rick Mercer Photo Challenge- Stephen Harper Jeans

In class we had to do the Rick Mercer photo challenge starring Stephen Harper! (the challenge is here) What you had to do was take a picture of Stephen Harper that was on the website and photoshop it to make something "special." For this, I decided to take one of Justin Bieber Calvin Klein photos and put Stephen Harpers face on the model. Here's how I did it;

1- First I opened both pictures in photoshop. Then, using the Quick Selection tool I selected Stephen Harpers face then copied and pasted it into the Calvin Klein photo.

2- Using the transform tool I dragged Stephen harpers face over the models face and bended the image until It matched the body and face shape as much as possible. It took a bit of work with not only the bend tool but I used liquify for some minor details such as the areas around the hair.

3- This is when I made his face black and white. I erased some things that I missed when I changed his face shape and size so it looked like it fit.

4- Using exposure, I changed Harpers face to make it match the contrast of the photo as much as possible. I couldn't make it match completely, so I had to change the photos contrast slightly as well.

5-I was told to attempt changing the "Calvin Klein" to "Stephen Harper" or something along those lines. So I selected every letter individually at the bottom of the image and used the fill tool to get rid of them as best as I could. It probably took me the longest out of everything because I screwed up a lot and had to re-do it.

6- Afterwards all I did was add the text. I scrolled through the text options until I found a font that matched the original Calvin Klein the most and added it in. Since the pants are so bright I went over to the layer styles and used the drop shadow option. I played with it a bit and eventually it looked like an outline. I did the same with the Hash tag, fixed the exposure a bit more, then I was done!

That was my step-by-step for my Stephen Harper Jeans.  buy a pair, take a picture and tag it with #MyHarpers! (though don't actually because there ain't no brand called Stephen Harper Jeans obviously)