Happy Birthday!!

Assignment 2 Greeting Card.

Yeay it's done. Finally we all can rest in peace now. LOL. First of all i wasn't planning to do a birthday card. My plan was to do a wedding card. During the consulation, i decided to change it and go with the flow. And I'm happy with my final work. Yeay.


The materials that i used.

Chocolate.

Kids.


Cartoon.


Background:

1)Select International Paper, size of an A4. Go to IMAGE>IMAGE ROTATION>90 deg CW.
For the background, I play with all the colors.
The type of brush I'm using is ASSORTED BRUSH NO.28

2) At the new layer, open a new picture, this time a picture of a Chocolate i get in the Internet. Go to IMAGE>IMAGE ROTATION>90 deg CCW. Resize it ctrl+T and completely cover the whole background that I colored earlier on.

3) At the layer, click DIFFERENCE. Then go to FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR>RADIUS 4.7 PIXELS.

4) Then click the CUSTOM SHAPE TOOL.
After explore and explore all the shape designs, I decided to used the FRAME design. RESTARIZE>SHAPE. For the frame effect, at the layer double-click it. A box of LAYER STYLE will appear. Choose the type of effects you want for you image and play around with it smartly.. I applied DROP SHADOW, INNER SHADOW. Adjust the OPACITY, SPREAD AND SIZE.
I also applied INNER GLOW AND OUTER GLOW, BEVEL AND EMBOSS, CONTOUR and finally STROKE.

5) In a new layer, again using the CUSTOM SHAPE TOOL, click the HEART SHAPE on top of the FRAME SHAPE. RESTARIZE>SHAPE

6) New layer, open new picture. Drag the picture into your workspace while pressing SHIFT BUTTON. Go to LAYER>CREATE CLIPPING MASK.


7) You will see that the image is in the heart. In a new layer, click RECTANGULAR TOOL. RESTARIZE>SHAPE. Then go to FILTER>STYLIZE>TEXTURE>MOSAIC TILES. For the effects, I applied DROP SHADOW, INNER SHADOW. Adjust the OPACITY, SPREAD AND SIZE.
I also applied INNER GLOW AND OUTER GLOW, BEVEL AND EMBOSS, CONTOUR and TEXTURE and finally STROKE


8) Same technique and steps i applies on NO.7


9) For the font, the word HAPPY i used the font SCRIPTMTBOLD. RESTARIZE>TYPE. For the effects, I applied DROP SHADOW, INNER SHADOW. Adjust the OPACITY, SPREAD AND SIZE.
I also applied INNER GLOW AND OUTER GLOW, BEVEL AND EMBOSS,CONTOUR and finally STROKE. For the word BIRTHDAY, i used the font FORTEMT


10) New layer, click CUSTOM SHAPE TOOL, I choose an image under BANNERS and AWWARDS. There are tons of designs and shape.


11) RESTARIZE>SHAPE it.


10) At the layer click MULTIPLY. You notice that the figure is barely there.


11) At the layer, double-click it, box of LAYER STYLE will appear. Click it for the effects. I click DROP SHADOW. Adjust the OPACITY, SPREAD AND SIZE.
I also click OUTER GLOW and BEVEL AND EMBOSS and and finally STROKE. You can see the edges of the image. It kinda looks transparent.


12) New layer, click CUSTOM SHAPE TOOL, I choose an image of a BOW. RESTARIZE>SHAPE.

13) It looks plain right now. So what i'm going to do is, again at the layer double click it. A box of layer styles will appear. I click DROP SHADOW. Adjust the OPACITY, SPREAD and SIZE. Then i click INNER SHADOW, BEVEL AND EMBOSS, CONTOUR, TEXTURE AND STROKE. And tada..

14) I'm going to insert words on top of the BANNER. The words is "Lots of Presents, Lots of Surprises, Lots of Fun and Lots of Love. Happy Birthday my little one"
The effects is same as NO.13.


15) For the final image, open new picture, this time a cartoon picture. USING A QUICK AND SELECTION TOOL and ERASER TOOL to crop the image. Finally tadaa...

"Snippets of Life - Iskandar Rusli"

♡ Iskandar Rusli

FOM Open Day

Assignment 1

Yeay it's done. Finally.

My sources:

Blue sky

Fom Building

MMU Graduates

Multimedia University

Background:

1) For the background, i used an image of a sky. Resize to size of an A4.

2) Go to LAYER>NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER>CURVES to adjust the brightness of the image. I used CURVES with Blue as the base color cause i want the sky to appear more attractive and striking.

3) Using the POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL, crop the image of FOM building.

4) I want the building to appear colorful because now it looks dull to me. Create new layer, this time using PAINT BRUSH color the FOM building, it's okay if it's messy. Don't worry.

5) At the layers click the drop down menu and select OVERLAY. Then click FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR>Set the RADIUS to 30 pixels.

6) Create new layer, insert MMU LOGO. With the same technique at the layers click the drop down menu and select HARD LIGHT. Then FILTER>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR and set the RADIUS to 2.6 pixels.

7) Create new layer, FONT>IMPACT>FOM OPEN DAY>COLOR CHERRY RED

8) New layer, open new picture MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY. Drag the picture into your workspace while pressing SHIFT BUTTON.

9) Go to LAYER>CREATE CLIPPING MASK. At the layers double click it and adjust the appearance of the font that has already been masked. Example the inner or outer glow.

10) Open new picture. I'm going to insert a picture of Graduates in my workspace. Go to SELECT and click ALL, EDIT and COPY. At your workspace click EDIT and PASTE.

11) At the LAYERS, click ADD VECTOR MASK. It's a small icon that looks like a camera. Click it. Then go to EDIT>FILL. At the CONTENTS make sure it's BLACK. Then press OK. You'll see the image of the graduates disappear. Not to be worry. PAINT BRUSH your workspace. As you brush your workspace you'll notice that images of the graduates will start to appear. Careful because you only want the images of the graduates to appear in your wallpaper. Then at the LAYERS, click HARD LIGHT. Go to FILTER>BLUR and GAUSSIAN BLUR it. Set the pixels to 2.1.

12) Insert FONT of your choice for the FOM OPEN DAY date and time and your preferred phrase. Lastly it's done. Yeay go have a drink with your friends.

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world - Joel Arthur Barker"

♡ Iskandar Rusli

Transformation

Before:

An old 1867 photograph of a woman with a missing tooth.



After:

All glamed up.

Our girl look smokin' here. From a grandma with a missing tooth we transform her to a gorgeous lady and we gave her a beautiful set of teeth. Hahaha.



"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"

♡ Iskandar Rusli

Aloha

Photo Retouching is very common these days. You see images of pretty and good looking models in magazines, on billboards and wish you'd look like them. Symmetrical face shape, flawless skin, an hour glass body shape, perfect nose and everything is perfect and you cry and ask GOD why am i not as pretty as these skinny models? WHY GOD WHY? (sorry for being too dramatic), well all those images have been edited and retouched. *Pant* Don't be fool by it. Regardless of the condition, photo retouching can turn any imperfections looks fresh, brand new, and in many cases, photo retouching can make an image look better than the original one. So don't be fooled by what you see. Although the say "seeing is believing" think twice before you believe them.

The original photo:

Using clone stamp i blend everything and the water polo swimmers is gone. *evil laugh* You can see a beautiful blue sea of water.

I changed the color and insert a surfer in it. Using polygonal lasso tool i trimmed the image of the surfer and insert it. This technique have been taught in previous class. I have to admit i have never seen a pink or red color sea before.

"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus - Alexander Graham Bell"

♡ Iskandar Rusli

The Terminator

Before:



After:


As you can see I used my own photo and vectorized it and the result is a bit alien-esque. This computer components that i used is:-

Britney Spears Ops i did it again CD - eyes.

Speaker - nose which is kind of funny because it seems like the image has only one nostril.

Keyboard - mouth.

Ram - eyebrows.

"I proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up - Orel Herhiser"

♡ Iskandar Rusli

Holler~

Hello World can you hear me? I've arrived.

A warm welcome to everyone, my fellow classmates, and lovely and kind hearted lecturers. *sweet talker eh* LOL. Well most of you may or may not know me, I'm Iskandar *wink* I'm already in my 1st semester Gamma year. Few things about me, I love to sleep and I'm not a morning person. Can be a bit cranky in the morning. I love reading and i play the piano. I've been playing the piano since i was 9yo. I collect Vogue magazines and they're my bibles. Oh yeah and i'm a huge fan of Kpop. I know it's lame. I used to think these korean obsession is super lame and never thought i'd fall for it. Lastly I'm a total sucker when it comes to reality shows.

Enough said. Anyway I hope i could improve my skills in photoshop and learn new techniques under the guidance of Madam Lydia and Dr. Ken. Lastly guys do drop by leave comments. Let's be friends. By the way I'm not going to restrict myself to blog on every post about what have been taught in class, oh today we learn about yada yada in class the lecturer taught us yada yada... I would also insert my point of view as well. I'm going to make this blog and my journey learning photoshop fun and exciting as possible.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein"

♡ Iskandar Rusli