Rwanda Text Illustration

For my one word text illustration, i chose perseverance because i thought it was one of the main themes of the movie. Paul showed amazing perseverance by overcoming obstacles and never giving up. I chose pictures that show characters from the movie as well as other people that demonstrate acts of perseverance.

Movie Poster

Hidden Object

For my hidden object, i chose to hide a bird somewhere in the rocks in this picture. The bird is similar to the greyish-blue color of the rocks, and i blended him in to try to make him almost transparent. Good luck:)

Final Color Wheel Stencil

For my second color wheel stencil, i used images that i took from around the school. The star cut-out is from a painting in the boys bathroom, and the inside of the stars is a picture of the bricks on the outside of western. I thought the rainbow gradient would go well with the color filters on the stars, and i tried to make the stroke on each star opposite of the background.

Color Wheel Stencil #1

For my first color wheel stencil, i chose to use cut-outs of a maple leaf. The background is the Canadian flag waving in the sky; i thought it would be appropriate with the maple leaf cut-out. The insides of the cut-outs are just a random tie-die background that i made with a variety of colors and different photo filters. This project is pretty cool because you get to choose whatever stencil or background you want- my next one will be better:)

Puppet warp text tutorial

For my third photoshop tutorial, i watched the video on puppet warping text by Dave Cross. In the video, Dave shows how you can play with words and make them sort of describe themselves. I like the video tutorials because i am more of a visual learner and it was very easy to understand. I think this is very useful in making banners or titles for things and just playing around with the different anchor points.

Photoshopuser.com tutorial

For my photshopuser.com tutorial, i chose the puppet warp tip by Matt Kloskowski. He showed me that if you take a picture and make it a specialized object before warping it, you can select specific anchor points where you want to bend the picture. I chose a picture of skydivers and moved their arms, legs, and torsos around to change their positions. This tutorial definitely makes the puppet warp tool a lot more effective in specific places.