School of Fish

   This project was done to show us the technique of using the blur tools. First we had to create a gradient background from light to dark. After that we saved a picture of a fish from Google, opened it, turned it to gray-scale, deleted all the white, and saved the new image as a brush preset. Then you went back into the picture with your gradient, selected the paintbrush, and painted in different sized fish that were also different colors.  Once that was done we went onto a new layer and added the streaks of light. To do this you used the paintbrush that looked like dirt, using white, then used the blue filter. Next you had to make the sand, you used a yellow brown, added noise, changed the opacity so that it blended in better. Then the bubbles had to be put in. To do this you made a circle, filled it with white, added a black highlight along with a black border. Next you had to turn this into yet another brush preset. Lastly we saved another picture of a texture so that it gave the effect of it looking more like water and not just paint.

Mid-year Poster

This was our midterm for Graphic Arts. We were handed a picture and were told to recreate it. Some of the things were easy to duplicate however others were tasks that we hadn't talked about in a while. For example the clouds were the same cloud just flipped. Also you had to make sure you added the correct drop shadow on the words "Happiness is" other wise it wouldn't look right. I thought that this midterm was a good test to see what we have actually learned, and also to show yourself what you have learned to with Photoshop.