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  • Photoshop Brushes Self Portrait

    Mr. Hoppe had everyone in the class make a self-portrait. It made me feel like I was in the first grade, in a good way. (Used wacom tablet)

  • Book Cover Project

    How I did this book cover project: step1) Pick three titles from the list that have a tie. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken Kesey The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski Ever wonder what to get that bird-loving relative of yours… step2) Follow restrictions from Tom and heed…

  • Organic Cookbook

    Started fonting for upcoming Photoshop project for an organic cookbook…

  • Selection

    Today Mr. Hoppe explained how to go through the proper channels to get the best selection for an image. (Blue works best. If CMYK, convert to RGB.) I learned that the silhouette (the black and white image in the duplicate channel has to be super sharp (and blurry where you want it!) before actually making…

  • Alpha Yoks

    I’m working on an alphabet poster with Mr. Yoks. He’s terrible at counting. According to my chart, there are three 20th letters in the alphabet. Pen and ink.

  • Layers

    Mr. Hoppe had the class make sandwiches using Adobe Photoshop’s layer feature and a series of stock photos that were oversized and from the wrong perspective. I made the bread 50% transparent so you could see that my sandwich contained some excellent looking onions that I distorted to match the perspective of the bread.

  • Snow Ballet

    \Today, my teammates, Michelle, Meryl and I braved the slightly snowy city and went to the Pacific Northwest Ballet studios to see Olivier Wever at work. For the photo essay class (the assignment’s theme, the Creative Life), we decided to tell the story of Olivier, a Belgian art director of his dance company Whim W’him.…