Since the summer began I decided I wanted to improve my skills with Photoshop and other programs like it. While I do not own Photoshop, I was able to use the free program Pixlr which happens to have many of the same functions of Photoshop. The first thing I decided to learn and the focus of this blog post was how to use images and words in different ways and combining them. I started doing trying to fill words with images to make cool banners and other artistic pieces. I found this both very interesting and I found many ways that I could use this to help others around me. The first piece I made was one in which I took a photo from my friends music video and put it into his artist name. This came out really well and he is now able to use it as a banner or anything else he wants. The biggest struggle I had was transitioning from how to do something like this in Photoshop to Pixlr. Even with the help of a step by step on Photoshop I still found it quite difficult to transition with the new interface and different capabilities. After doing this, I decided to challenge myself more by using multiple pictures and trying to learn new effects. My next project was one I made for my friend of his dog. Instead of using one picture for the whole name, I used a different picture for each letter of the name. This helped show me how careful I have to be when editing the pictures around the letters as I found myself going back and having to fix the pictures over and over again. After I was done however, I found that this picture came out very well and I was very proud of myself for accomplishing it. Through this process I not only learned how to make these kinds of images, I also learned how to navigate and edit in Pixlr which took some time to get used too. As well as learning new things about Pixlr, it really helped me to get used to Photoshop like programs again which will be very useful for projects later this summer and continuing on through the year. I am proud of myself because at the beginning of working on these projects it took me at least an hour just to get the first one right, and now I am able to do these very quickly. This will allow me to help my friends and family with edits like these and others that use the same skills. Overall this expanded my knowledge of the program and helped me learn a new technique that will help me in the future.
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AuthorHi, my name is Nick Bayer and I will be posting blogs about every 1-2 weeks in the 2020-21 school year. I am doing this for my Advanced Game Design class at Durham School of the Arts(DSA). The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Categories
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