Bonus #11 - Blog Header

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

This bonus is perfect as well if you do not have a lino block to work with. Many of the themes for our blogs have an area where you can customize the header of your website using an image. The theme for “miss.angieshen.com” does not have this but many of yours do.
If the theme you [...]

Bonus #10 - Peace Poster Inspiration

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

**DOUBLE BONUS MARKS**
As I had mentioned to you before, the feedback on your posters from everyone has been amazing. Teachers, presenters, and most importantly other students…have all stopped me at some point to express how impactful were for them.
This bonus task is an important one, as it will be sent to the police officer at [...]

Bonus Task #9 - ohhh practice…

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I’d like to use today’s class to practice, practice, practice.I’ve collected a bunch of tutorials that will be really helpful and hopefully inspiring as we lead into our next assignment. (Creating posters for Peace Week.)
In these tutorials you’ll learn about the [blend tool], [gradient palette], [effect menu], and more of the [pen tool].
Working with you [...]

Bonus #8 - Monster Characters

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Run your blog and make some money. 
I came across a great blog called Blog Spoon Graphics. No different than how you run your blogs, UK designer Chris Spooner is always posting tonnes of great freebies, tutorials, and articles for the web/graphic artist. He keeps his blog fresh with quality content so that he attracts a large audience for [...]

Bonus #7 - Literacy Week Bookmark Contest

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Theme: “Brush up on your Shakespeare”
Create a bookmark using photoshop and/or illustrator. 
Download: The Bookmark Contest Entry Form
[Miss Shen's suggestions]
Setup the following document size:
19cm x 5cm at 150dpi
After you’ve created your bookmark in photoshop or illustrator, print it out and glue it on to the space in the above entry form.
Complete the information section and submit [...]

bonus #6 - your future kids

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I came accross this site on Photojojo. You upload two pictures and it combines it into one. So you can essentially see what your children may look like!
  http://www.morphthing.com/
[For this Bonus Task]
This is a challenging bonus task. For this task i want you to attempt to morph two pictures into one. Here are two tutorials [...]

Bonus #5 - a Valentine e-Card

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

[For this Bonus Task]
Choose one of the following photoshop tutorials and create a valentine e-card. Feel free to add a personal message to your e-card and send it to a friend.

Bonus #4 - Photoshop Movie Effects

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I absolutely love Photojojo.
It’s a newsletter dedicated to photography that sends out awesome photo projects, photo editing tutorials and Do It Yourself Ideas.
Check out some of the past newsletters.
There are so many things you can do with Photoshop that in all the years I’ve worked with it I feel like i barely use half of its capabilities to my creative advantage. [...]

Bonus #3 - Making Fine Selections

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Trying to isolate images with very fine detail such as hair or trees is not only frustrating but looks unrealistic using the selection tools. The [Extract Filter] is a great solution to this problem.
Isolated using an Anti-Aliased Selection

Isolated using the Extract Filter

[For this Bonus Task]
Download this picture of me and isolate me from the background using [...]

Bonus #2 - Photo Retouching

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Many of you have asked me about removing pimples from your personal polaroids. So, I just wanted to introduce you to the [clone stamp tool].
This tool will allow you to clone a portion of your image on to another part of the image. To use this tool you need to choose a “sampling point”. A sampling [...]