Photoshop Final Project 1/4

This is part 1 of 4 of my Photoshop final project. Here I used my own image of the man in the photo and the newspaper showing through on the brick wall was an image I got from Google. I wanted to demonstrate my understanding of layer masks, text, color, and image size in Photoshop.

Shrek Silhouette

This is my pen tool silhouette created in Illustrator. With this, I took an image of Shrek from Google and traced it using the pen tool. This was a challenge because I traced the image trying to catch every detail of Shrek's silhouette so I did the entire image on extreme zoom. Although this was time consuming, it was well worth the effort because, to me, this is very clearly Shrek's silhouette.

Pen Tool

This is my first attempt with getting familiar with the pen tool in Illustrator. This was an existing document where I just traced over the lines on the page initially. Then, as I got more comfortable with the tool, I was able to create my own designs off of the existing ones and change the placement, color, etc.

Pear

This is the pear image that I created using Illustrator. The newest challenges I faced with this image was using the pen tool to trace and create new shapes, using the gradient tool, and using the rotation tool. This one took a bit longer than any of the Illustrator files I created prior to this but in the end I was very happy with the final look and I felt that I learned a lot about Illustrator through this assignment.

Boxes

This is when I was still just getting familiar with Illustrator. Here I created a grid and was able to design just 1/4 of the grid initially with different colors and shapes. I then learned to copy over those shapes, colors, and images so that they mirrored correctly into the other 3/4 of the overall grid.

This is the color wheel I created using Illustrator. Here I created the circle divided into sections. I then used a color wheel image from the internet to model the colors after (using the eye dropper tool).  I also used those exact colors in the text above the wheel. I used the pen tool to create a wavy line that I could write along. At this point I was definitely more comfortable trying new things in Illustrator.

Illustrator Chile

This is one of my first projects in Illustrator. Here I was just messing around with different effects such as blending, rotating, creating copies, etc. This was an image already created that was given to us to manipulate. The changes I have made are mostly around the border and a few blends in the main image in the middle. Basically I was just starting to get familiar with what Illustrator can do here and I was able to get a bit more comfortable with the program.