January 2, 2005

• Learn Something New:
  
  I finally got my hands on a copy of adobe photoshop!!!!  Here is a breakdown of my first project......which took a wooping 6 hours!!! (Hopefully my next project won't take as long but I wanted to make sure my first one was done correctly)
  
  
  

  
  Here is my xanga before Photoshop
  
  
  

  
  

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  Step One:
  
  First, I started off w/ the orignal image of the Gorillaz and then opened up my adobe photoshop and began to painstinkly remove the Gorillaz tag by using a stamp tool to "erase" the grafitti.
  

  
  Here is the original image of the Gorillaz tag
  
  
  

  
  

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  Step Two:
  
  After using a painstaking process called "clone stamping" to remove all of the previous graffitti from the image I ended up w/ an image of just the two characters and the spray can.  This allowed me a clean image to tag anything I wanted on to the image.
  

  
  This image is of just the characters after I removed the Gorillaz Tag
  
  
  

  
  

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  Step Three:
  
  Finally w/ a clean slate and using Photoshops brush tool and color burn w/ outer glow turned on I was able to get the Grafitti look I wanted.
  

  
  Final Project Status - Completed
  
  
  

  
  

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  Step Four:
  
  Here is a screenshot of my baby  The colors used for the links & title headers are sampled from the yellow shirt and the blue colors I used on my site are from the windows of the building.
  
  

  
  Here is my xanga before Photoshop
  
  
  

  
  

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  For this being my first time using Photoshop I'm amazed at all the things I've learned to do so far.  Can't wait to find out what i'll next learn.
  

  P.S.  Special thanks to Kim of www.madpimp.com for answering some of my question on how to use photoshop.
  
  

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