Recycle Motivational Poster

 This is my motivational poster for graphic design. I decided to do recycling and the picture on the right is the original picture that I started with. I made a picture of the recycling logo with my pen tool and then brought it in on another layer above this grass one. Next I followed a combination of tutorials to help me get the grass to be in the shape of my recycle logo. After that I added a couple affects to it including bevel and extrude, drop shadow, and satin to get the look of the logo that you can see on the left below the grass picture here.


These are links to the tutorials that I used to help me create this project:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/create-a-spectacular-grass-text-effect-in-photoshop/

AND

http://www.mrboothby.net/mrboothby/?p=292

After that I needed to create a background for my logo to sit on. I used a tutorial to help me make a grudge effect for the background. First I dragged a photo of crinkled  paper in and then rotated it then I put a white layer under that and set the crinkled paper layer to overlay that gave it the sort of affect seen above. Then I added a green color layer on the and that became my background. After that the only thing left to do was add my text and give it the same affects as the logo above and then I was done.

Tutorials to help me with this second tutorial can be seen here

http://www.bittbox.com/photoshop/photoshop-how-to-make-an-awesome-grungy-paper-texture-from-scratch


The Final image can be seen at the top of the post.

Fantasy scene poster

This is the picture that I started with. I used a clone stamp tutorial to help me remove the hands and boat. The picture to the left only shows the hands removed and that is only because I couldn't find the one that I originally used so I just redid it quick so I could put it up on the blog post. After I did this I just added a couple chairs up on the mountain. I got the chairs from a picture on google and cut them out with the magic wand tool.

The tutorial that helped me with the clone stamp tool is in this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcJbN8CA49c


Also the thing that was tricky about the clone stamp tool was that to get the target for the clone you had to hold done alt and then click. After that it was just like using the paint brush.

 The next thing I did was find a few pictures of things I could put in the water and in the air. The first picture was the one on the left of the jet skier. Also there were pictures of dolphins, fighter planes, and a diver. In all of the pictures I cut out the parts of the picture I wanted using the pen tool. Then I brought them all into the poster file and put them where I wanted. Now the only thing was trying to make the pictures look like they belonged. To do this I found a mask tutorial that helped me show a little of the water threw. Doing this allowed me to make the pictures look like they belonged in there.



The tutorial that helped me with the layer masks is in this link:
http://photoshoptips.net/2006/07/25/layer-masks/





The last thing I wanted to do to this was add a lighting affect. I wanted to make it look like the night was on one side and the day on the other.
To do this I used a lighting tutorial and went from filter to render to lighting affects and adjusted it as I wanted.

The tutorial that helped me with the lighting is in this link:
http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/mysterious-lighting-effect-tutorial-for-photoshop/

In total I used 6 pictures and 3 tutorials to help me make this fantasy scene poster. Also I wanted to make it horizontal instead of vertical so my dimensions are 18x12 at 300dpi instead of 12x18 at 300dpi. A larger final version can be seen at the top of this post.