Post Modernist CD and CD cover design

its for Cosmic Gate's album Exploration of space

The top is the front and the bottom is the back cover

Poster project

Here is a poster advertising the are institute of Portland that I made.

Photo Manipulation using filters

I did a tutorial on filters using this picture as my original.

and here is the result

10 min photo manipulation

Here is a basic photo manipulation I did.

It is really simple. It is suppoed to look like she is being hit by the lightning but i only spent like 10 minutes on it so it isn't that great.

Cool painting with light tutorial

Okay, as my first post to this blog I will be writing about a Photoshop tutorial as an assignment for my graphic design class, whose blog can be found here: nhsgd1.blogspot.com

To get right down to business, this tutorial is about painting with light. I have always liked this effect and this tutorial caught my eye. If you don't know what I mean here is a pic:

Also here is the url for this tutorial: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/painting_with_light
Any way I really liked this tutorial and learned a number of things. One thing I found particularly interesting  was the use multiple layers to get the lighting effect the way it is. I also learned how to use scanned images and patterns in the art, namely the lettering as well as a spray of paint. I think that this tutorial is a good way to learn how to incorporate the combination of real images as well as a first step in manipulating the lighting of the image.