Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials:

Monster tutorial using shape building and path finder tools to build up this image of the monster

Using shape building, gradient, type setting and layers tools to build up this shop logo

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials:

Adjusting Brightness Levels

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Correcting the brightness and contrast of an image with the levels and hue and saturation command.

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Selecting Coloured Areas with the Magic Wand

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Magic wand tool and preferences, blur filters and inner glow

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Making Layer Masks - Seamless Compositing

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Using layer masks to conceal parts of an image, blending images, making selections/deselections, matting and defringing, using filters and drop shadows.

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These are the two images to blend together in this tutorial

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Using the Marquee Tools

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Rectangular and elliptical marquee tools, match colour command and feather

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Images to be combined

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Working with Selections - Mr Potato Head

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Using the selection tools in various ways, repositioning a selection, choose areas of an image based on proximity or colour of pixels, add to and subtract from selections, rotate, scale and transform a selection.

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These are the resources used to make the potato head.

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Blending Images

Orange in my Apple

Blending Images

Using Filters and Blending Modes

Pasting an Image into a Selection

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Merging images and Blending colours

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 Using my own images using the same techniques...

Using my own images using the same techniques...

Digital Collage Scene

Brushes and Adjustment Layers - Face Retouching

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Quick masking to change the colour of her hair, lips and eye shadow, using curves to change colours and applying make up digitally

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Type Effects - Skin Textured Typography

Skills/techniques used in this tutorial:

Gradients and blending modes, textured background, creating light with the brush tool, layer mask, burn and dodge tool and cutting type.

Type Effects - Fuzzy/Fluffy Textured Typography

Digital Collage Scene

Making a Word out of Real Materials

This is the word 'fly' made out of feathers Lauren and I found during our trip to Ashton Court. We have arranged them to spell out the word fly and layered them over an image we shot of a tree with birds flying towards it.

Nature Collage

 This is our nature collage we made from the photos Lauren and I took in Ashton Court. (So Far)

Atmospheric Digicollage

This is an illustrative photoshop task where we had to colour in the different parts of the scanned in illustration and add in photographic, type, hand drawn and paint elements to create this final image.

Retro Collage Techniques

Skills.techniques used in this tutorial:

Using blending modes, erasing, selections and filters to create a finished retro/vintage image.

Evaluation of the use of these skills and techniques used...

Cartoon Character Creation

Mood board of cartoon characters...

Annotations to existing cartoon characters...

Sketches of various cartoon character features...

Some of my initial sketches to develop my final cartoon character...

Cartoon Character 1: Forest Boy

The idea for this character is that he is a boy that lives in the woods and he wears strange clothes he finds on his travels (tweed suit and strange ears)

I scanned in my sketch in to Photoshop and painted the various areas using the paint brush tools. I pasted in a tweed texture in to the suit area using the 'Paste special - paste into' function.

I think that he looks like an interesting character as he has unique and strange features like his ears and eyes and his tweed suit - I think I should have made the outlines thinner and focused more on proportions but I am pleased with the result.

Cartoon Character 2: Disco Cow

The idea for this character is that she is a really funky and confident cow that likes to party so I dressed her in a 60's/70's hippie dance floor look. I think the bold colour blocks would be eye catching and interesting to look at.

I initially drew some shoes but thought it would be better to have the cow hooves to reinforce the fact that she is a cow.

Here is the initial sketch for the head of my cow - I think it needs to be more feminim though so I will add some eye lashes and some lips.

I scanned in the sketches of her body, sharpened them and added colour using the painting tools in Photoshop with the use of the various selection tools. I constructed her face using the pentel in Illustrator.

I really like this outcome as it is really funky and different to normal cartoons - however, I think if I had more time I would have put more detail in to the face and made the body more in proportion to a real cow as her arms would be as long as her legs and her body would be much longer - but as this is a cartoon I think it works fine. Also the colours are quite conflicting so I would look in to that more.