Friday, April 25, 2014

Photo Frames



I chose to do the two photo frames on pictures of my siblings because I have a lot of pictures with my siblings and am going to have a different photo effect on each one on the page. I chose to do the polaroid photo one because I liked the effect and the way it looked and wanted to try it. Accomplishing the effect was very easy and was mostly done in just duplicated layers and moving them around. I also chose to do the puzzle piece frame because it was unique and looked really cool. The puzzle piece frame was actually really easy as well and only took me a few minutes. I used the texture>texturizer>puzzle layout and then just modified settings to how i wanted it to look. I then used the pen tool to cut out a puzzle piece and mpve it to a different angle to give it the effect of falling into place/

Monday, April 21, 2014

Curl Photo



The curl effect was actually a very simple one to accomplish. The first thing I did was use the rectangular marquee tool to select the bottom left hand corner where I wanted the curl to be. I then filled it with black to white gradient to give the bottom of the picture color. I then used the warp tool to give the effect that the bottom left hand corner of the photo was folding over. I chose to use this picture for the curl effect because I am going to do an entire page on my best friends and want this to be one of the main photos. On my best friend page, I am going to use 4 photos and curl all of them so I decided to do the tutorial on this one so I could already have one of the 4 photos finished.

Polaroid Photo


Tape Photo




This was pretty easy and only took me about 10 minutes. I chose to use this picture because it is going to be the only photo on its page or one of the only 2-3, so I chose to do the tape on this one so it will stand out when in my book. To accomplish the tape effect, I used the rectangle tool to draw the original tape shape, and then after I used the brush tool to brush the effect on the tape, I used the eraser to erase the extra paint. I then put a drop shadow on the tape to add another effect.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Advertisement






Picture This is a store that sells cameras mostly targeted at moms and other women who love to "capture little moments." The stores main goal is to show moms that cameras have much better quality and are better to treasure life's precious memories of their children. This ad would be placed in the "Parents" magazine to catch the attention of moms and dads everywhere to show them that Picture This sells the best quality cameras for remembering all of the little moments they find so dear. To accomplish the design of this advertisement, I first had to find pictures that would appeal to mom's and other young men and women in need of a new camera. To do this, I went to Pinterest, a favorite website of moms everywhere, and quickly found pictures that would catch their attention. In order to make the pictures look like Polaroids, I simply created a new 350px x 350px document and placed the pictures on it. I then adjusted the size of the photos on the backgrounds so it looked like a Polaroid photo. I then placed them on a wooden background to give the effect of pictures scattered on a table. I then researched most successful fonts for advertisements and decided to use Bodoni. I then added typography and a few other finishing touches and then resulted in this ad to help sell more of Picture This' quality cameras to parents all over the U.S. who just want to capture more of life's little moments.