Sunset on Inkscape

This time, we were asked to follow an advanced tutorial from the web. I chose to make a sunset with a boat and birds. It was quite easy, but the effect it creates is amazing. The birds are not really supposed to have a reflection in the water, but I thought it would create a nice effect.
I really like what I have done here and I think it is my best piece of work on inkscape...so far!

Motocross accident on photoshop

This was one of my favourite effects to create on photoshop. To do it I had to copy the wheel over to the right, then complete the missing part of the wheel, before actually removing the wheel from the bike itself. It was hard to copy the spokes from the lower right of the wheel to the opposite, the top left, without making them look any different. Go onto my Flickr account to see the full size picture and inspect the detail for yourself! (The link is at the bottom of the page.)


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Surfer too slow for the board: photoshop

This was the hardest photoshop editing project I have done so far, and it ended up almost 100% successful. The only thing that went wrong was the surfers shadow on the right. You can still see the reflection of his wet suit, but I managed to get rid of the arm. That was important, because it was more prominent. I still think it looks very realistic

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Skier without skis on photoshop

This was a very quick picture I edited on photoshop.
it again involved the clone stamp, but this time it was about removing something completely from the picture, in this case, the persons skis. It was hard to get rid of the skis and the ski shadows.

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Re-touching on photoshop

This unit in Digital Art was photoshop. The first skill we learned was re-touching faces. getting rid of facial imperfections and blemishes, a bit like a professional magazine front cover maker. To do this, we had to use the clone stamp. We would alt-click the area we wanted to clone, and then click the area we wanted to cover. We would have to refresh the clone stamp very often to make it look realistic.

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Vector Graphics cute animal and cartoon character

This next unit was all about creating a cute cartoon animal by giving it an out of proportioned head and eyes. It's body woiuld be too small and so would its legs. To create a shine in its eyes, all you had to do was give it a little white circle of reflection in its pupils. A cute animal also consists of lots of spaces with one colour in it. I think i could have done a better job on the legs and paws.



The next part of the task we had to create a cartoon character in a similar style to a south park character. It was hard to give a 3-D effect to the hat, plus I had never seen south park before, so I'm unfamiliar with all the characters. I used a similar technique to our previous task, tracing round an object andplacing a pattern in it. i used this to make the jeans. i found a picture of some jeans and traced round it, then clip-set it. I think i could have taken some more time to make some shoes.

Photoshop filters

These are my two favourite pictures that I have edited on photoshop using filters. The first one is a lens flare flter, and I really like it because it makes me look like I'm some kind of God and one of the boys is trying to attack me but the other one is scared.
The second one is a plastic wrap filter, and I like it because its mixing a synthetic material with humans and nature.

Funky text

This is a small unit we had in digital art, and we used the "object, clip, set" option. I put some text, any color, over a picture. Then I highlighted the picture and the text and did the "object, clip, set" option. This made the text act like a cookie cutter, and cut the shape of the text into the picture.

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Patterns on Inkscape

This unit in Digital art we worked on patterns. At first we made a shape and turned it into a pattern, then put it on the object we wanted it on. It was difficult to have it outline the whole object exactly, as you can see on the T-Shirts sleeves and on the surfboard. Then we made a new layer and put the pattern in that layer. After we had done this, we could use the multiply option to make the pattern look like it was actually stuck on the object, not just hovering over it. I used the multiply option on the golf ball below. I used this object because it has many bumps, so you can the effect it clearly.

This picture on the right is a repeating pattern. I made it by using the cloned tiles option, so this created 9 tiles aboce and next to and above it. Whatever you did to the original tile would happen to the neighbouring ones too. Even when you overlapped the tile, you would only have to put the same object on the opposite side of the tile. This gives such an effect that you can't tell where the original tiles were in the first place. I made the repeating pattern out of little earth globes and light bulbs to represent that we should be more aware of how energy saving can make a difference.

Capturing the moment

This unit in Digital art we attempted to take digital photographs that "captured the moment".
We had to push the button at exactly the right moment, so that we got the action at the peak of its moment.

This first one is of us jumping. It was tricky to get us to jump at the right moment, and this was one of many otherwise failed attempts!






This second one was even harder. The boy at the back had to jump later than me, otherwise I would be to close to the pic-nic table when the photo was taken. The purpose of the boy standing still on the left was to make the other two people look even more in motion.

Funkified text

This is island I made using the Inkscape tool: "Dynamic offset". I stretched the text border several times to get the beach and forest effect. This feature might be useful to make multiple radients in other objects, or to just make text look nicer.

Chelsea player on Vector Graphics

This is a TFL man we made in Digital art with Inkscape. We had to use the different options like difference, exclusion, union, etc. to make the rounded arms, feet and body.

it was hard to make it look realistic and also to make the small Adidas badge on the shirt. The Chelsea badge is imported, by the way.

Vector Graphics

This unit in Digital Art we learnt how to use inkscape.

The first thing we had to do was turn a circle into a shamrock, just by dragging the seperate whiskers and paths to the correct positions.

It was hard at first, but then we got used to it.

Then we had to make a butterfly. This was a lot harder, especially rounding the body correctly.

We also learnt how to change the colour of parts and control the opacity and wether it fades or not.

A new ZIS logo

This unit in Digital Art we had to create a new logo for our school.

This is a sketch of what I wanted my logo to look like:





This is what it looked like after we created it on logomaker.

This is the logo on a mouse pad.

This is a logo on a journal.

My favourite digital photography pictures

This unit in Digital Art we learnt about digital photography. We took very amatuerish pictures of our school enviroment and then learnt about the rule of thirds, color and lighting. We then evaluated our pictures.



This picture, takes the hallway with a musical instrument, the tablet PC cabinets (grey), our lockers (blue), and a classroom at the back.

This picture has good components, and nothing is in the very centre, so it is quite a good picture.






This is a chain from a bike in our school. It resembles unity, like all chains do. It also shows that we are an enviromentally friendly school, because we ride our bikes to school.

This picture is good because it is close up, but it could be made better by shifting it up or down.


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