This tutorial was my very first experience with Adobe Photoshop. Its purpose was to teach me about layers, layer transparency, and nondestructive editing. I chose a picture showing a lot of colorful fish because it seemed like there was a lot I could do with the picture. I decided to have a slightly transparent balck layer to add darkness to the picture, and made a few of the fish look like they were glowing an ominous green glow. Looking back at it now, I realize that I've come very far from this first tutorial, but I'll still treasure my first work in Photoshop.
After learning about layers and the opacity of the layers in the first tutorial, this sandwich tutorial was next. It taught me about stacking layers on top of each other and eliminating an image background in a nondesructive manner using layer masks and selection tools. The selection tools especially have helped me immensely since this tutorial. In fact, I use them in all of my Photoshop and Illustrator works!
This comical tutorial was focused on a few different elements of Adobe Photoshop such as selection tools, layer stacking, layer opacity, shading, and coloring a line image. First, we colored in a line image of Bugs Bunny, and shaded him appropriately afterward. We placed him into the main picture and added a shadow for him and a rock in front of his foot to make the picture more realistic. It's a funny picture, but it was also a very useful tutorial.
This mini project was our own tutorial on rasterizing text layers and editing them from there. I tried a few design themes for arrangement of the rasterized letters of my name like Space and Canyons, but I settled on a desert theme. I edited my "i" to look like a cactus, and I added a sun behind it, giving the whole picture a "blurry sun-setting" feel to it.
In this Photoshop tutorial, I worked with layer styles to give a normal picture a painted-look. I duplicated the image into three different layers, applied a different layer style to each and changed the opacity of each. Overall I was very satisifed with the outcome and water-paint style of the image. Changing the style of the image using layer styles is a very useful and fun technique.
