This week in the Mac Lab, I did not have a very good start to the week. I spent several days working on trying to fix my Isometric patterns in Photoshop, only to remember on Wednesday that there is a feature in Illustrator to export files to Photoshop files. I took a pattern from last week and actually made something out of it seen below, and I like it, but I was a bit frustrated so I decided to work on something different all together.  

The following images are all isometric patterns I have previously made, but I have edited them using a new technique I learned from Skocko in this tutorial, the Path Blur. For the first image, I applied a Path Blur and a Camera Raw Filter. Then, I simply added an Overlay blend mode. For the second image, I decided to experiment some more, and started off with a Path Blur and Camera Raw Filter again, then added a Vivid Light blend mode. Then, I added a Screen blend mode, and a motion blur to smooth it out. These two were good proof of concept blurs, especially the first one, which I like because of how smooth it looks.

These next two were a bit of a step up for me. The first pattern I started with a Path Blur and a Camera Raw Filter, then I applied a Multiply blend mode. Then, I decided to apply an Extrude filter, and another Path Blur. Lastly, I applied a Motion blur to smooth it out. The second pattern I started the same way, but I used a Color Burn blend mode instead. Then I applied an Extrude filter and a Path Blur, but I also applied a find edges filter this time. Both these patterns look really good and interesting in my opinion, and I had a lot of fun making them.

These last two patterns have my favorite one in them. For the first one, I applied a Path Blur as usual, then a Soft Light blend mode, Extrude filter, and another Path Blur. The result from that was fine, but along the way, I came across something really nice. For the second pattern, I did everything I did to the first one, except after the Path Blur, I applied the Find Edges filter, a difference blending mode, and a motion blur to smooth it out. This created a very cool pattern that might be one of my favorite things I have made this year.

I did not upload a lot this week because I didn't produce anything on Monday and Tuesday, and my progress on Wednesday was very slow, but when I finally got to work on something new on Thursday, my week brightened up. Next week, I will improve on this strategy of making simple isometric patterns and applying Photoshop filters and blend modes to them, and I hope to upload a lot more next week, and be productive every day.