Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Creation of Choice


These are my creation of choice pictures. I opened up a new layer to make a background with a border.
To make a border, I filled in the whole background yellow with the paint can tool. I seleceted some of the inside of the background, then with the paint can tool, I filled it in black, and that's how I made my border. I quick slected all pictures in this by using control "A". Then I moved all my pictures on to this background. I overlapped all my photos to give them a collage kind of look. In the picture of Sara, I changed the curves to make it black and white. I used the paint brush that I custom-made to put the swirls on this. In the photo of the eye it has Sara & Bre in the pupil. I did that by using the text tool, and I changed the text color to blue to match the blue eye, and the tear. I made a text layer and wrote, "We are who we are." I did control (T) to  make that text layer. The picture of the cat I made changed the curves to make it all black and white. Then I sleceted every other stripe on the cat by using the magic wand so I could change the selected stripes on his tail back to its origanl color by using the eraser tool. I selected the cat, and dragged him over to this creation of choice.                                                                                                                                             

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Personalized Card

This is my personalized card. First I quick selected the Mean Girls pictures, and I made a background for their pictures. On sections in the background, I put their names next to them. I used different fonts on each of the text. On two of the names I put a drop shadow, and on the other two I made a stroke. I created a paint brush to put the swirls in the bacckgound by selecting it and went to define brush preset. To put my name, I created my own brush. I put my pictures in my text by going to create clipping mask. I chose these pictures because Mean Girls is my favorite movie. I love music, so I put a few of my favorite music artists to represent some of the music I listen to. I put the yellow swirls in the picture because yellow is my favorite color, and the swirls were pretty. I like this because it has a few of my most favorite things, and it's not cluttered.