Photoshop: Feather, simple collage w/feather

You can select images with a feather and create simple collages, copying and pasting the images with feather as a disolvence, using different layers.
You can use the Eraser tool (E) with different brushes and Master Diameters to create simple effects on the edges of the picture.
The Eraser tool has different kind of brushes. Try to use a simple brush, not a fancy one, (unless you need it and you can justify its use). As the filters, these should be used just ot create little details, not to ABUSE of them.
If you are using the Type tool for your final work, don't mix more than 3 fonts in the same page. (And it is better if you just use ONE FONT with its own varieties: Bold, Semibold, Regular, Italic, etc)

EXERCISE THE BRONX JOURNAL TV AD

Full page
color: CMYK,
Size: 10" W x 14" H
Save it as an Illustrator eps. doc. or a Photoshop TIFF

Half page
Size: 10"W x 7" H
Color: CMYK
Save it as an Illustrator eps document or as a Photoshop TIFF.

1/4 page
Size: 5"W x 7" H
Color: CMYK
Save it as an Illustrator eps document or as a Photoshop TIFF.

Photoshop: Paste Into, Strokes

Filling text with pictures
Using the Paste Into option

Photoshop
Create a New Document

Photoshop>File>New
SIZE: 12 inches width/3 inches height/ White Background/ RGB
Select the Type Tool

Type YOUR NAME (Size: Between 110-120 points)
Font: Gill Sans Bold

Select up to three (3) pictures form the web. High Quality. (You can use the tool Google Images>Large Images)

1. You copy the picture that you want to past into the Text
(If it is the whole picture you just use the Apple+A and then, Apple + C (Copy) )
2.Select the letter or letters that you want to fill. Because they have the same color you can use the Wand tool
3. Paste the picture INTO the letters (Photoshop>Edit>Paste Into)
4.You can modify the size of the picture,s the colors, you can apply filters according to your creativity.
5. Give the letters a stroke 10 px. (any color) Photoshop>Edit>Stroke>
5.Flatten Image (Photoshop>Layer>Flatten Image)
6.Crop any excessive background (Crop tool)
6.Save as jpg.
7.Upload the image to your blog

TBJ TV LOGO

EXERCISE/REAL CASE/CREATIVITY TBJ TV logo

Use these elements (you can download others from the web, not more than 2), to create an Illustator logo for the program TBJ TV. The logo must be a 4 colors (CMYK) Illustrator eps document.

Final list of blogs. MLJ Spring 2007 class

Vivian

www.vivsblogspace.blogspot.com

Shadora
www.shadoraswilkes.blogspot.com

Aisha
www.aal-muslim.blogspot.com

Elizabeth
www.eda1805.blogspot.com

Alvin
www.alisojo.blogspot.com

Sasha
www.sashamejia.blogspot.com/

Daneth
www.danetsamreth.blogspot.com

Octavia
www.octaviaprime.blogspot.com

Gregory
www.gnelsonbloggs.blogspot.com

Cover "Mondo Pen Magazine", Exercise March 14

Another picture for exercise -magazine cover, march 14

Pen feather picture used to create the Illustrator logo.
-Create a path (you can do a selection with the Wand Tool and then choose Select Inverse, create the path, save it, copy the image and paste it as fully editable on a new Illustrator document)
-Use the pen feather and the words Mondo Pen to create the logo of the magazine.

pictures for exercise cover, march 14

Title: Arundhati Roy
Deck (smaller): The Small Gods of

CREATE THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE, MARCH 14

Create the logo using Illustrator
I used Baskerville font (Semibold)
Approx, size: 122.17
Horizontal scale:91.57%
Color: Y100, M17.

Sample. Using Pen Tool to create a logo

Here are the three (basic) steps to create a logo using the Pen Tool of Photoshop and Illustrator's Pathfinder.
The original picture is on top: a horse

We create a path using the pen tool
Save the path
Copy the picture and paste it on a new Illustrator document as fully editable.
Use the degrade tool to fill the background of th semicircle
Substact the shape of the horse
Add the font with the name of the company: White Horse

First newsletter exercise

You are going to create the logo for the newsletter using some of the exercises of today's class. For the other stories of the newsletter's front page, use your own images form past exercises.
NEWsletter Size: 8.5 inches x 11 inches (US Letter)

To upload the newsletter from Quark, first you have to export it as a pdf (File>Export>PDF). Then open the pdf from Photoshp. Save it as a jpg. Dont forget to transform it to RGB.

Tips

F7 > To view the Guides
Ctrol + 0 To fit in window
Ctrol + B To create frames for your Boxes (Item>Frame)
Ctrol + T To create roundaraound (Item>Roundaround)

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