I am now dipping my toes and learning Adobe Illustrator. I followed the first lesson in the digital book called Adobe Illustrator CC classroom in a book (2018) and made a logo and a few symbols from scratch. I really like the simplicity and elegance of the flyer so I decided to post it on my blog. Now I can make logos and professional looking flyer ads 💬ðŸ¤
I recently watched the last Matrix movie, number 4 and I thought it was super interesting. I love the story and concept of The Matrix and it's rebels. When I was younger I would have picked the red pill in a heartbeat, or so I think. Now that I am older, a happy life with purpose is what I am aiming for and thus I don't mind the blue pill. As long as the robots are being good to me-What is there to complain about? LOL
I had to make a movie poster for my Photoshop class final. I quickly gravitated towards The Matrix and made a faux movie poster for The Matrix 5, Reincarnation. I really like the tagline I invented, "A new generation." I went all out creating a cool computer screen with html code on it and my boyfriend popping out of the bottom with a materializing cockatoo on his shoulder. Everything has a digital flare that goes along with The Matrix's theme. I also learned how to use gradients and change a regular portrait picture into something cool. I added a pill bottle with the red and blue pill near a VR headset- because we all know The Metaverse is going to be a lot like The Matrix, hehehe...For good or for worse.
I read an article online that made me feel a bit better about the future. The article talked about how people with disabilities and/or illnesses could benefit a lot from an online world where they can customize their avatar and then go to places like virtual museums or homes or planets. That's how they can do things like able bodies can. Everyone deserves a way to interact with other people. Human beings need friends and a community. Maybe some people will befriend robots too, as long as it's not hurting anyone then I think The Metaverse could be benevolent. Hopefully some people will prefer the real world and keep fighting to keep it as green and as healthy as possible...Without the Earth, we can't live or have a lifestyle.
My professor liked my first movie poster version but he thought that I could put my talent to good use and watch a few more online tutorials on how to make a classic The Matrix style poster. He was right. I can do something more Hollywood poster-ish. I am happy that he kindly pushed me in the right direction. Both posters were fun to work on.
I learned how to make rain and animate it as a GIF.
Animated rain tutorial demonstrates how to achieve this in Photoshop. I just followed the instructions. I did decide to add my own unique detail though. I painted realistic clouds in my image to enhance the moody scenery.
Lesson 7 in the Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a book was super informative, it was all about fonts, and clipping masks to alter the visuals on them.
I got to design a mock magazine cover. It was really cool designing the font styles and adding text to a warped path that made the text curve.
For my 4th assignment project I decided to edit a lady with glasses reading a book. Who knows what the book is about...But I imagined it as being a fantastic story that transports the reader into a magical world. The clouds symbolize that the reader is in another world in her mind. The two cherubs make the scene soft and ethereal along with other details.
Lesson 6 in the Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a book was super interesting.
I took an ordinary photo of a lady and tweaked it by using Photoshop masks and channels. I transformed a regular photo into something kind of cool and paired it with a vibrant background.
Lesson 2 in the Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a book had some really cool lessons to learn. I had to retouch, restore and make the picture more vivid in Photoshop.
First I used the Crop tool to straighten, trim, and scale the photograph. By default, cropping deletes cropped pixels. Next I used Curves and Levels adjustment layers to remove the color cast and adjust the color and tone in the image. After I selected The Spot Healing Brush tool. It quickly removes blemishes and other imperfections. It also samples pixels around the retouched area and matches the texture, lighting, transparency, and shading of the sampled pixels to the pixels being healed. Then I used the Patch tool to remove unwanted elements from an image. I used a content-aware patch to remove an unrelated person from the right side of the photo. In Content-Aware mode, the Patch tool creates nearly seamless blending with the nearby content. And finally I utilized The Clone Stamp tool. It uses pixels from one area of an image to replace the pixels in another part of the image. Using this tool, you can not only remove unwanted objects from your images, but you can also fill in missing areas in photographs you scan from damaged originals.
