Great PS tips!

Here is a great list of Photoshop tips that will help your workflow!

Mixed art!

Here's a new piece in which I combined three different animals. I combined a horse, zebra and a cow. I used different blending modes and shadows to make this piece, and overall, I think it turned out pretty well. 

Enjoy. -Colton P.

Complete one of the blogs on the linked page: http://smashmaterials.com/2011/12-best-surreal-photoshop-tutorials-ever/.

Poster tutorial.

Your task is to complete one of these tutorials. I want you to change the text within the poster to something in which you have an emotional investment.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/how-to-create-an-ice-cold-poster-with-3d-text/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing-tutorials/how-to-design-a-rockin-80s-party-poster/

Kobi's cruising along.

Here is a great piece that a beginning Photoshop kid did. Once he selected his images, the piece came together pretty easily. But smart planning makes for easy and good work!

To see more of Kobi's work click on the link to the right.

Select Fuzzy Hair

Here is a nice tool to make fuzzy selections:

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/selecting-hair/

Think about how many uses this will have!

Art, art, and art.

This piece started off as a tutorial (see the post from Sept. 23) that went in a totally personal direction. This beginning graphics kid obviously has art making skills, and his work will be amazing once he gains a higher level of skills and techniques.

Cloud dancer, he calls it. Super real I say.

Clay action.

Here are two works in progress from our sculpture class. These efforts are from two beginning kids.

Annie wants to add a bird to this piece, and I cannot wait to see what happens.

This is the base, which doubles as the chest, of a puppeteer. 

Pen tool!

Please watch these tutorials. Follow in PS what the maker is doing.

Link to the tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8qLkZ0QmY

Link to the tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7eY0J5Lkp8

Great links for copyright free movies.

Videos Thought to Be in the Public Domain

The sites listed below contain movies commonly thought to be in the public domain, and works 

their owners are willing to let be distributed. “Public Domain” refers to the body of creative
works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary
interest such as a copyright. There is some risk, however, because of the difficulty of identifying
works that truly do not have any proprietary interests.
• Festival Films
http://www.fesfilms.com/masters.html
• Desert Island Films
http://www.desertislandfilms.com/
• Reel Media International
http://www.reelmediainternational.com/
• BuyOut Footage
http://www.buyoutfootage.com/
• OpenFlix
http://www.openflix.com/
• Internet Archive Moving Images Collection
http://www.archive.org/details/movies
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/