Professional Widow

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: psdbox.com

Ah, the femme fatale, a woman of mysterious and seductive charm who makes your heart say yes, but your mind says danger! Literature is full of enchantress who leads men happily to their compromising and deadly fate. This image tries to capture the hypnotic power a femme fatale has over prey. I say tries, since this image is on the normal world, where a femme fatale works on a plane beyond the normal world.

This Photoshop image is a great use of masks, layer blends and layer styles to create an effective mood of seductive danger.

 

Post Apocalypse Landscape

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: psdbox.com

This image and the Fallen Angel image are both Halloween treat. These images are on the unsettling or uncomfortable side (Halloween does not just have to be just about bloody horror).

Once again this is an image that is created from various image parts and using layer styles and blending modes are brought together to make s singular unified image. This is once of the true power of the more recent versions of Photoshop.

 

 

Gear Girl

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: BakaArts YouTube Channel

I love the concept of steam punk – so when I saw this image, I had to develop my own version of it. I think one of the most interesting things about this image was that the starting base woman image used to make this image. The image of the original model shows the woman with blonde hair in a tight braid. As you can tell – things got edited.

 

Battlefield Effect

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: BakaArts YouTube Channel

As part of it’s marketing, the game Battlefield has created a graphic style where the a solider is shown on a back-lite blue ish background with an orange-yellow highlight on the solider. In this image I was adding a different soldier image to the prepared background image.

 

Sports Posters

  

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: Photoshop CS4 Down and Dirty Tricks

Now seems to be the season of sports, baseball’s World Series is almost here, Football is in full swing and hockey is underway. Thus it seemed the perfect time to create some sports related graphics.

The great thing about this basic design is how flexible it is and how easy it is to create a unified look. Not only would it be easy to create a series of graphics for one team, it is easy to create a series of graphics for many teams or even different sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Superman Movie Poster

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: PTC Training Channel

I can’t say I saw the “Man of Steel” movie this summer (I will probably catch it on DVD at some point), but I certainly saw the poster. I have to admit the design of the poster somehow did not fit my image of Superman (I always think of him as the ultimate boy scout), but as someone who does photoshop images, you have to love the highlights, shadows and textures.

 

Unworldly Landscape

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: psdbox.com

If you ever saw the opening credits to the show “The Outer Limits” you saw images like the above. This style of image was made popular by Jerry Uelsmann – In fact much of his artwork was used in “The Outer Limits” opening (the image of the house with the tree roots is one of his most famous images). Uelsmann’s image style brings together common items in uncommon settings and arrangements. This images are black and white as a rule.

 

Magic Light

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: psdbox.com

Half way through this image a thought came to me – This image is about light, but all images created on a computer are about light, but this this one makes it obvious.

I have liked what Wrigley has done with the print and television advertising of 5 gum. I felt that this image would  fit with their advertising style.

 

 

1930’s – 1940’s style posters

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: Blue LightingTV YouTube Channel

This set of images was based on the image above. This is a tutorial image is based on the WPA posters of the 1930’s. The posters had a strong Art Deco feel to them and tended to use very stylized symbols on the posters.

 

Engraved Images

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1

Tutorial: Blue LightingTV YouTube Channel (sot of)

Engraved or etched images are not very common, but before the invention of photography, it was a common method of creating images for printing. Photography quickly replaced due to the fact it was easier, quicker, cheaper and created a more accurate image. Thank you Mr. George Eastman.

I chose to use historical reenactments from the war of 1812 (both the North American and European versions) since engraved images were common in the early 1800’s.