
Friday, 30 November 2007
Edited Raster 6)

Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Edited Raster Graphics 5)

Got heaps of different versions of this plug/socket ...but i decided to stick with this one as it looks best.
First of all I used burn and dodge tools on the plug and the side of the socket. Then i used the cutout filter. I then imported the layer from a previous attempt, which was the plug and wire, but changed the effect of them. I added in a rectangular box(just the outline) and used an effect to create the outline for the socket.
Also used skew to fix the shape of the image and make it straighter than it was.
Edited Raster 4) ...

For this image I first used the magic wand tool in Photoshop to select the guitar, copied and pasted into a new layer. I then duplicated this layer twice and moved the guitars apart from each other.
For the background i used the Sumi-e filter and then put the opacity down. Copied the background layer and pasted it into a new layer called background1, and then went to the original Background and made it white.
Used hue, saturation and contrast on the guitars, and used the smudge tool on the green guitar.
Im quite pleased with the result.
Friday, 23 November 2007
Portfolio Vector Graphics :: Trace a Bitmap. . .

I opened the file in Adobe Illustrator, selected the image then clicked on
Object > Live Trace >Tracing Options
Then selected "Comic Art" preset, and changed the Mode to colour, and the Max Colors to 200. Then clicked on trace and saved the image as .ai file then opened this file in Fireworks and used the sub selection tool to select different ares of the image, which shows it is a vector graphic.
Saved the file again in Fireworks in PNG format. Saved traced image as jpeg also.
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
TIFF files...
instead of clicking on the link and clicking on "Save", click on "open" where it will open in Photoshop and then go to Save for Web and Devices then save it as a jpeg high and reduce the size to whatever is suitable... Much quicker!!!

