Came out looking a lot more ominous than I’d intended. Luckly she loved it, but then again, if I gave her scribbles on a piece of paper, she would say she loves that too. Shapes and type made in Illustrator, textures and shading done in Photoshop.

Key aspects of design: My dad’s favorite color is deep purple. Deep purple didn’t look good as a background color, so instead I made the background a light purple gradient. My dad’s favorite shape is the Mobius strip, so I added a mobius strip to the background too. My dad likes martinis, so I named […]

Two more banner concepts. Working on a forth that will give the illusion of a 3D plane.

RGB In Photoshop we use the RGB color group which is made up of Red, Green and Blue. These colors make up the three color channels in RGB and are known as the additive primaries. When all three emitted colors are added together, they create white light. When the traditional primary colors, red, yellow and […]

Here is a photograph I took while visiting Coney Island last year: Step One: Duplicate! Before you begin editing a photo, ALWAYS duplicate the image. This way you can always go back to the original in case you ever change your mind about the way the photo was edited. To duplicate an image, click the […]

Forgot to post my update yesterday. Darn it! Today I worked on logos that could suit any foundation that contributes to DonorsChoose.org. Since a lot of foundations don’t have logos, we make ones for them to post on the site. Pictured below (the names are completely arbitrary): ^^^ Not happy with this one. That big […]

A rough mock-up banner for DonorsChoose.org’s summer campaign. The picture of the girl was taken off of a stock photo site and inserted beneath a mask I made in the shape of the rectangular picture-area of another stock photo of a polaroid. The font seen here is VAG Rounded Standard. The jumble effect for the […]