Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Saturday, May 15, 2010

FINAL - Magazine Cover

I have decided to do a cover of my favorite magazine, MIND.

I bought a picture from fotolia.com (from Jens Schmidt)

MY FINAL COVER:

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Week #14: Lesson 8 & Last of Groovy Photoshop Techniques

Pop Dots:

Using Text As a Clipping Mask:

Tutorials from the Book (One-on-One)
Sharpening an Image - using Blur to sharpen


Applying Free - Form Distortions


Gaussian Blur and Median - softening

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Week #12 & 13: INTRODUCTION TO MASKS continued - part 2

CHINASKI in the United States - April 2010
The popular Czech Band CHINASKI came to visit California

Miro & Me in the Concert of Chinaski in Mountain View, CA

Me & Erika

Week 12: LESSON 9 in the Book (One-on-one)

All Images are from the book - Photoshop CS4 - One-on-One / Excercises:

Arranging and Modifying Layers


Importing, transforming, and Warping Layers


Masks, Knockouts, and Luminance Blending


Working with Layer Comps

Aligning Layers and Blending Photographs
Final Composite - 2 images in 1


Creating Panoramas with PHOTOMERGE
Pictures used for final Panorama View: Final Image:
Content-Aware Scaling
Before:

After:

Week #12: Depth of Field



The Final Composite of depth of Field:
Image: Prag, the Czech Republic.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Assignment #11: PLUG-INs

I followed the videos and I choose to upload the package with Contact Sheet II, Web Photo Gallery
It is very helpful and pretty fast. I enjoyed playing with these plug-ins.

Contact Sheet II:
Another QUICK Contact Sheet without any changes:
Web Photo Gallery: just a picture by using a print screen

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Assignment #10: SURREALISM

Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
The elephant from the ZOO (in Usti nad Labem) is free again, and He can enjoy his life with other birds in California. :o)

Pen Tool: Elephant, Wings, Buble Text
the original picture of elephant

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Image Correction

BeforeAfter

Friday, April 16, 2010

Week #9: PAINT, EDIT, HEAL

Examples from the book One-on-One:

Colored Butterfly - After

Before:

After

Darker Skye, lightening in her face

Before

After

Red Eyes, Greenish Hair, Yellow Teeth



My example: Scanned picture of me in the kindergarten :o)
Before Healing
After
Another Of My Examples of Me:

Thursday, March 25, 2010