Monday, December 3, 2012

CCF Projects

Hey there,

Most recently I've been asked to use my creative talents to for the greater good. A.k.a. helping out my church with its visual communications projects. This will involve creating sermon series posters, covers for the bulletin handouts, advertisements for upcoming events and... most recently helping design our church coffee bar cards.

This is what I can up with:

Once agin credit where credit is due, I did use a downloadable business card template from http://wegraphics.net, which I tweaked to my purposes.

While we're on the subject can I tell you how much I love wegraphics.net? I'm paying $7 a month (same as Netflix) but I'm getting access to vectors, brushes, textures and downloadable templates to use in any project I want. Can we say sweet!? And they have amazing quality stuff! Some of their materials are offered for free, or you can pay for individual packs if you don't want to sign up for member ship (sort of like pay as you go) but in the long run it's way cheaper to just join. I highly recommend it.

Color Splash Effect in Photoshop


Please note, I did not make this video, I just found it on You Tube. Hitting the more info button at the top of the video will give you info on the creator.

How To Get Started With Photoshop CS6 - 10 Things Beginners Want to Know...



Please note, I did not make this video, I just found it on You Tube. Hitting the more info button at the top of the video will give you info on the creator.

Photoshop CS6

Hey there,
So recently I have come across a joyous new tool, Photoshop CS6 Extended. My dad purchased it through our bookstore here at Weber State for an awesome student discount price, and I've been playing with it ever since.

Getting started was tough, and I had to go through a lot of tutorials and videos to figure out what everything did.
This one: http://textuts.com/ombre-text-effect/ Helped me make this text effect:


I also watch a couple of you tube tutorials as well to get me going, in addition to the videos found through Adobe: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6/.

For instance one video helped create this effect:

All these were created by me using the techniques explained through watching/reading tutorials.
I love photoshop! :D