Today I gave a little 30 minutes talk at REI for our local camera club I found on meetup.com
This post is a recap of my talk for those who would like to try extracting an image with hair using photoshop CS5 and the steps written below. Please let me know if you have any questions about the process or would like me to explain anything further.
If you have some time to kill while visiting the 2012 Brentwood Art and Wine Festival then hop on over to REI (also in the street of Brentwood) between 12 – 1:30 for and free short presentation by the Delta Digital Camera Club. I and two other members will be putting on a “photography tip forum”. Topics will be tripod usage, night photography and I personally will show tips in extracting an image in photoshop CS5. Come join the fun and don’t forget to RSVP!
A friend of mine shared this with me and it was such a feel good remix not to pass on. Weather you were a Bob Ross fan or not we need some uplifting messages in the world right now. Enjoy
The fist is moo.com. Hmm well the name doesn’t really say it’s all but their product says the rest! I had never heard of them before until I attended a wacom webinar where they were talking about making “portfolio in your pocket” using photoshop tips, a wacom tablet and the printfinity pack from moo.com. They aren’t your average business cards where you have the same image on every card. You can have every card have a different image on one side in full color and your calling information on the back also in full color.
They are higher priced for your average business card but when I got them in my hands I thought they were extremely well priced! I didn’t expect such good print quality and heavy durable card stock all made from sustainable forest. Below is the picture of ones I test printed!
I was asked to make a little graphic for the kiss the frog contest our honors program is putting on. I found a cute bullfrog off the creative commons search and attached a sticky note to his face. I then tried various attempts to write with my intuis 4 wacom tablet words on the sticky note. Ya can read it right????
Today I stumbled on a fun little site called wordle and the concept is simple. You just paste in a bunch of text and hit generate. After that you can choose a color scheme, pick a font and delete words you don’t like. If you don’t like what it makes you can hit randomize and change settings for an infinite number of possibilities. Below I pasted in a list from our degrees and certificates page and got the tag cloud below. I took was generated and played around in photoshop with various inverse and overlay effects to make the banner for one of our web pages. Check out wordle and have some word fun!
The purpose of design is to communicate a message and therefore I believe special effects should be used only if there is a reason to use them. This means it’s probably rare that you’ll need to create metal type but as a designer you should know the concept of how to do it even if you’ll only do it once in your career.
Above is an image of a banner I did for our college website to congratulate one of our star alumni who played in the Superbowl. To match the emblem for the Superbowl it called for some silver type.
In addition to that I needed to remind students it was time to submit their applications for graduation. Both were going to be shown on the same page so I thought the gold and silver would compliment each other and contribute to the overall message that each was trying to convey.
Below are the settings I used in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to get both the gold and silver effect. You’ll have to vary it a little depending on your type face and point size. This will just give you and idea so you know how to shape the metal to your specifications!
Type something. It doesn’t really matter the color or the type but in the case above I used Trajan and black but you can use any color. Then click on the layer style effects at the bottom of the layers palette and apply the settings for the various blending options:
The color I used here is #cfa51a and #fff6b8 for the light color
