Intro to Illustrator Assignments

Lesson 11- Patterns

Here it is on a phone! Pretty cute, although I'd have to change a few things if I was really going to order it.

Lesson 10- Alex

L8- My sunset gradient practice

Lessons 6-8 Evolution of Lila

L6- Trace from a photo of my cat.

L6- Trace of Lila

L5- My gingerbread-mon :) I did the reflected method and about halfway through, I realized that was the wrong method. I forged ahead and made it work, but I think it would have been a lot easier if I had made the whole body shape together first, then added the details. I will use that in the future for anything I want to have a stroke!

L5- Asymmetrical butterfly. I am addicted to playing with the width profiles on the stroke! This is also one of my new favorites!

L5 Symmetrical butterfly. I was going for a sort of stained glass effect.

L4- Anchor Points    This was fun! It looks like a real live clip art!! haha

L3- Color. This turned out to be one of my favorite creations!

Lesson 2- Precise Layout Skills and Tools- Logo. I created this to go with a podcast that my husband does called Tactics.

Lesson 1- Building an Image- Zebra Tracing

Intro to Flash Assignments

Assignment 4: Practice using the timeline, layers, and frames. My first real, actual animation!

Intermediate Photoshop Assignments

Lesson 12- Making Complex Composites

Lesson 11- Using luminosity masking to create a composite.

Assignment 11- using Luminosity Masking on my own (not very good) photo

Luminosity Masking Assignment

       

Assignment 10- Clipping Masks, etc. I made this one completely from scratch, using all my own photos! I love how it turned out!! Although it's not exactly postcard sized... haha.

Lesson 10- Clipping Masks, etc. This is the postcard we made as part of the lesson.

Assignment 9- More Mask Techniques

Assignment 9- More Mask techniques

Assignment 8- Grayscale and Gradient Masking. I made it to be a facebook cover banner of pictures from a recent trip to California.

Assignment 8- using grayscale to make frames. Me and my kitty. :)

Assignment 7: Fixing Images--- Ghost Photo

Assignment 7: Fixing Images--Retouching an old photo

Assignment 6- Working with Masks... using one of my own photos to transport us to Middle Earth. :)

Assignment 5- Adjustment layers

Assignment 4- Working with Smart Objects--My collage!

Assignment 3, my own photo and texture

Assignment 3, Working with Smart Objects

Assignment 2, Manipulating Layers

Assignment 1

Logo created for layers practice, view of my layers panel

Assignment 12, Fixing Images

Turkey Photo

Finally putting it all together!

Assignment 10: Setting Image Resolution and Image Sizes for Input and Output

Cropping and frames

Resizing, cropping, and using frames on my own image

Assignment 9 Setting Type and Adding Effects to Text

Playing with text! I used my wedding vows. I also played with some settings we've learned previously and found a whole exciting world under "render."

Assignment 8, Playing with Gradients

Background gradient

Creating a background with a difference gradient

Upgrading a photo using gradients. I used a radial chrome gradient with color burn.

Changing the background and adding a border

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Background and frame with my own photo