THIS is why I haven't been blogging....

Hooray! I finished the first course in my Graphic Design program! PHOTOSHOP BASICS. Thought I'd share the fruits of my labor...not sure what else I would do with all this....

So this was our first exercise. I had to extract this taxi to make a mockup of colorful taxis to pitch to the city of New York.

This was cool because I learned to color change things. Next I'll turn Obama into an alien or maybe make some new types of fruit. The possibilities are endless when you know how to color change things. And yes that is the technical term. (No it isn't.)

This exercise we had to turn this cabin into a nice Alaskan retreat. This project just about killed me. I found out that I'm not big into doctoring photos. I tried to make it look as realistic as possible, but succeeding at that would probably take a lot of practice.

This one we had to make a fake drug ad for "Filtrex." My instructor seemed to really like mine and nominated it for the student gallery, a place of high esteem for photoshop amateurs such as myself!

This exercise we had to make a visitor's guide cover for the town we're from. We had to use our own photos and use ridiculous filters that I don't like. I cheated by using a photo that Nate took (shout out to my bro!) and also I didn't follow the directions at all because I thought they were silly. I was wondering what my grade was going to be since I went my own way on this one, but it came back with a 99! My instructor was probably sick of all the cookie cutter layouts. So BOOYA. And I even got submitted to the student gallery again!

Our final project was to create a TV or Movie Poster. Chuck's a fun show so I decided to do a poster for that. The show has a pretty big geek following as do most shows with a hot female agent and geeks love wallpaper so I made my poster a wallpaper. I'm happy with how it turned out even though my images weren't the best quality.

Overall, I'm really enjoying my program! I love graphics design and I'd spend even more time on it than I do if only my beautiful girls would allow it...

(Sigh....) They are cute though, aren't they?