Hey everyone. I just made my way through Photoshop for Digital Production 1. The material is excellent but I fear I'm going far too slowly. Will do my best to pick up the pace.
Here are all of the assignments that I have done so far. I'm still working on the face liquify, hopefully it will be done tomorrow.
I have been using a tablet for a long time, so I didn't dwell on this assignment.
This tutorial and exercise were amazing. I've always fiddled with these controls, but after this I actually felt like I knew what I was doing.
This was my first attempt, and I ended up getting very frustrated and giving up on it. I think the problems were twofold: the castle was too visually complex to be integrated with the already visually complex mountain, and the shadows were too inconsistent (I actually painted over the castle to achieve a better effect, but I don't think it worked out very well).
My second attempt. I'm very pleased with this. Here are the images I used: