Everyone Likes Their Own Brand

I created Pookie-O’s cereal by starting with a blue background. I created a yellow and two white layers on top. I used the cookie cutter tool to cut out clouds and a sun and place them strategically. Then I opened the picture of Jesse and used the magic eraser to erase the background of the picture and the move tool to put it onto the cereal box. I used the type tool to write Pookie-O’s in the sky. I applied simple inner bevels to the lettering and Jesse and then a deep shadow to just Jesse.

Lets Switch It Up

First I rotated the picture of Carly. Then I used the rectangular marquee tool to cut out Carly’s head. Then I used the move tool to move Carly’s head onto Sparky’s body. I adjusted the size, then adjusted the hue and contrast to closely match Sparky’s skin tone as best as possible.

Lets Switch

Old Times are Good Times

I took this picture of my friends Zaida and Rachel. First, to make it look older, I went into the effects palette and made the picture sepia. Then I used filter, craquelure to add cracks to the picture. Then I choose a vignette frame around the edges. I created a cut out and then switched to darken mode so the edges of the frame would show up.

~In Loving Memory: Rachel Leigh Kaplan~

Raina as a Cartoon

This is my dog Raina. Cute I know. I kind of think it would be cool if we made her a cartoon.

First I will create a new layer over top Raina and fill it with white. I'm going to turn the opacity of the layer down to about 70% so I can see Raina behind the layer. I'm going to use the brush tool to trace the outsides and important parts like her eyes, mouth, and any area where the color changes.

Use the eyedropper tool to sample the colors you need to color your cartoon in. Simply use the paint bucket to fill the areas you've traced with the colors you sample.

Bumper Stickers :)

I like bumper stickers. I think they are really funny... well the funny ones are funny. I want to make my own bumper sticker for my car... a really good one. This will be fun.

First create a new blank file. 11 inches x 3 inches should do it. Make a few layers if you want to use the cookie cutter tool at some point in time. Choose the type tool and write a silly or clever message... or whatever you want. Sense I was listening to Sir Mix Alot this morning, i think I'll use some back. :)

I found some pictures of large trucker ladies and i will add them to my bumper sticker.



Ta da! I like it :)

black, white, splash

When I was five I was a Teletubby for Halloween. Don't laugh joto no es divertido... my dad took this picture and its cute... but I think I could make it cuter.

What if i made everything black and white except the Teletubby suits? I like that idea.

First I will make a new saturation layer so i can turn the picture black and white...





Make sure you turn the saturation all the way down or else the picture wont be totally black and white.


After you make the new layer just select the brush tool. Make sure the foreground color is set to black and the background color is set to white. Just paint over the colors you want to show up.




If you mess up and want to go back to black and white just switch the foreground and background colors so that you are painting with white. Then the colors should fade back to black.



Ta Da!! Aren't we cute :)

AH! Real Monsters

This is Blake. Blake is sitting on the bus, calm as ever, until people attack him. Lets paste pictures into the windows to make him look like he's being attacked.



First you use the polygon lasso tool to make a selection around the area you want to fill. Then you open your other picture that you will use to fill the area you selected on the previous photo. Use the rectangular marquee tool to make a selection on that picture. Then copy that image and use paste into selection to fill it in to the original image where you made the lasso selection.



TA-DA! done :)

When it Comes to Action

This is Jesse. He's a goalie for soccer and i went to one of his practices. I happened to bring my camera and wanted to take pictures where he couldn't stop me.



Action shots require more work and preparation than still shots. For one you have to make sure, with a digital camera, that you are on a good setting. A setting with rapid release works the best because it takes the picture so quickly that it doesn't blur.



No one tell him I put these on the web... he'll kill me.

Make Your Friends look Inbreed

This is Sarah. Sarah is not inbreed... lets fix that.

Using the various distort tools in the filter menu, play around a bit. They are alot of fun... especially when they are used to make people... hideous. My favorite option is liquify. It's the best for making people super disgusting.



A new window will open with the picture inside. Various tools do diffrent things.



Each box outlined in color does something different. Let's start with the upper left hand tool bar. The top tool, or the warp tool (orange), pushes pixles in the direction you move the mouse.
The next box down is the turbulance tool (pale green). It basically does what the picture shows, creates waves. The longer you hold down the button in a certain spot, the more intense the wave becomes.
The next two buttons are basically the same, they just work in opposite directions. The top of the two is twirl clockwise and the bottom is twirl counter clockwise. What do they do? They twirl things. Duh.
The tools in bright pink either pull in from the outside or push out from the inside. The pucker tool pulls in, the bloat tool pushes out. There names say it all, don't they.
Moving on to the brown and yellow tools. I know they aren't grouped together, but bare with me. I happen to dislike both of these tools. They do things you don't want them to de very quickly. They can be cool, but you find yourself saying "where did my chin go!?". The brown one is the shift pixles tool, it basically moves things weirdly. The yellow is the reflection tool. It chooses the place symetrical to the spot your clicking and colors it there.
The lime green tool is very important. If you do something you don't like this tool is handy. It is the reconstrust tool. Just drag it along something you didn't like, and it repairs it to normal.
The bottom are pretty self explanitory. Zoom and the hand tool (moves the picture within the box).
The Box in red at the bottom zooms in on the image at various increments. The pink box to the right chooses how big your brush is and how intense each click is.

TA-DA! Sarah is now inbreed. Frightening I know. If she really looked like this I probably wouldn't be her friend. But thank goodness, she doesn't. Love you Sarah, don't kill me for putting this up!
Like I said, just play around with different tools. They can make some crazy things happen to anything, especially your face. Have fun :)