Showing posts with label J.Sprague Class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J.Sprague Class. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Day 12: Photo Editing (storyboard)
This lesson is all about preparing a triptych of images into a wordless story... here's mine:
Friday, July 17, 2009
Day 10: Photo Editing (project)
Day 10: Project Start to Finish combines the previous lessons into a completed art piece formally known as a photo. Here's mine:
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Day 9: Photo Editing (Edge Burn)
Ya does not like to hear these lessons. I know this because every time Jessica starts talking, Ya comes over to pull the speaker cord out of the headphones slot. Now if I were more computer savvy, I'd figure out why the computer's internal speakers weren't functional. Honestly, though, I don't even know if this PC has internal speakers.
I jumped around a bit to get to day nine (partially because I know how to add text elements and because day 7 was a recap)... and then I scrapped Day 9 altogether. Oh well.
I jumped around a bit to get to day nine (partially because I know how to add text elements and because day 7 was a recap)... and then I scrapped Day 9 altogether. Oh well.
Day 8: Photo Editing (type)
If I'm being honest, which I try to be, I cheated today.
The objective for Day 8 is to use typography as a design element (think magazine page with headline over the image). I didn't do this. Instead, I played with textures again (day 5) and also with the burned edges (day 9) and then added the text (courtesy of Dafont.com) as a dating element rather than a focal point. So without more blah blah blah, here's my "type" photo:
Yadon is 10.5 months old - 45 weeks new - and I am so very grateful God entrusted him to me.
The objective for Day 8 is to use typography as a design element (think magazine page with headline over the image). I didn't do this. Instead, I played with textures again (day 5) and also with the burned edges (day 9) and then added the text (courtesy of Dafont.com) as a dating element rather than a focal point. So without more blah blah blah, here's my "type" photo:
Yadon is 10.5 months old - 45 weeks new - and I am so very grateful God entrusted him to me.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Day 5: Photo Editing (textures)
Day 5 called for adding textures to your photos. I have seen this done beautifully on a few photos by my family's photographer (and friend) Lisa Julia. And though I tried to pick her brain about how exactly she achieved the look, I think it was a trade secret. I don't blame her one bit, because now that I've tried it, I can just envision hundreds of images I'd like to try to texturize. Here's day five's edit, which I call "little bubble"
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Day 4: Photo Editing (clipping masks)
My baby cousin (all right, she's only four months younger, but that's enough to call her that) just gave birth to her first child. He's a precious 8lb 4oz gem and has completely stolen his parent's hearts. Yadon gave his approval of his future playmate with a big smile and tried really hard to "pet" him. We're excited to see how little AJ grows up and hopefully he'll be as much energy and all-boy like our Ya is.
Anyway, Miss Sprague's Day 4: Clipping Masks seemed like the perfect completion to this simple snap shot I took while visiting our newest family member:
Ya and Chi have given me permission to say that he's a little cutie. And I promise AJ, we'll switch that classification to handsome soon enough for you.
Anyway, Miss Sprague's Day 4: Clipping Masks seemed like the perfect completion to this simple snap shot I took while visiting our newest family member:
Ya and Chi have given me permission to say that he's a little cutie. And I promise AJ, we'll switch that classification to handsome soon enough for you.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Day 3: Photo Editing (vintage)
I'm on a roll (can you tell that ten month terror is asleep?)...
Day three and lesson three deals with "Create a Vintage, Hand-Tinted Look". This is a style of photography post processing that I will definately be using! Here's my modest attempt at vintage photography:
I am ready to admit that I am in love with the layers method of editing photos. It's a bit late to learn sepia toning, but Sprague has a great formula for creating a brown tint...
Day three and lesson three deals with "Create a Vintage, Hand-Tinted Look". This is a style of photography post processing that I will definately be using! Here's my modest attempt at vintage photography:
I am ready to admit that I am in love with the layers method of editing photos. It's a bit late to learn sepia toning, but Sprague has a great formula for creating a brown tint...
Day 2: Photo Editing (brushes)
The second day's lesson deals with brushes... I'm familiar with these, because Lisa Julia told me to use those to "watermark" my photos for visible copyright purposes. So, since the Sprague brush set from House of 3 wasn't usable by my Photoshop 7 program, I played with brushes I had collected from before. I used quite a few in a flurry of stamps for this image:
What I like about the tutorial was the suggestion to create a new layer before fiddling with brushes. How many times have I had to trash an edited photo because I got stamp happy?
What I like about the tutorial was the suggestion to create a new layer before fiddling with brushes. How many times have I had to trash an edited photo because I got stamp happy?
Day 1: Photo Editing (frames)
The assignment for Lesson One, Day One of Jessica Sprague's "Photo Editing: Frame-ups and Special Effects" (offered FREE here) was to frame up and word-ify a photo.
She provides the download for the frame and the word art (which said "sassy," so I erased the "y" to add masculinity to it). The sample kit was created by House of 3.
I'm a bit behind on my lessons, but better late than never, right? Ha. Tell that to my students, because late work is penalized...
So what's my excuse? This 10-month old wild child doesn't sit still long enough for Mommy to edit photos. In fact, he had a rather fun time yanking out the speaker cord as I tried to watch the tutorial for this lesson. No audio = no idea what I'm doing.
She provides the download for the frame and the word art (which said "sassy," so I erased the "y" to add masculinity to it). The sample kit was created by House of 3.I'm a bit behind on my lessons, but better late than never, right? Ha. Tell that to my students, because late work is penalized...
So what's my excuse? This 10-month old wild child doesn't sit still long enough for Mommy to edit photos. In fact, he had a rather fun time yanking out the speaker cord as I tried to watch the tutorial for this lesson. No audio = no idea what I'm doing.
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