Freamland variation

Just a little variation from the previous image:

Freamland

Right... I've finally decided it's time to update my blog.
I've got used to my new school, with typical, LONG, French school days. I've also got used to dragging a heavy schoolbag around, some days weighing over 10 kilos.

In between homework and all that jazz, I've recreated my sunglasses on screen. They were originally called Dreamland, but because of a typo, they're now called Freamland, and the name's stuck :)

Down to business

Nothing wrong with this card? Well , look closely - all the information is wrong! Fax doesn't even exist anymore. So we needed to print a new one. So after touching it up on photoshop (otherwise it would have been a bad quality, crooked image which looks like it's been scanned on to the card^^), and rewriting the address, we set out to find a website to print our new card. Last time we went to the printing shop in town, they were rubbish! When you don't know how to work the software used in the shop, you're not going to get very far...

Anyway, the site we found was VistaPrint. A site that actually delivered to France... Very useful. Unfortunately their cards aren't the same dimensions as our original (our dimensions were better) and there's all this crap about bleed lines, safe area, trim lines etc. to avoid the design having a white border or half of the design cut off. After fiddling around with the text position, and changing the dimensions, we got a non-stretched design which seemed to fit into the safe area, trim lines, etc..

Enough talking, here's what we ended up with. It doesn't actually look that different after all that effort I put into it.




We got the cards now, and thankfully we're not missing half the design. Phew...
Mind you, on the screen, it shows a light green and the actual card is a dark green. Anyone got an explanation?

Photoshop CS3

I've been using the trial version of Photoshop CS3 Extended for 2 days now- only 28 days left, time's running out fast ^^ - and, well... it's brilliant! It seems you can do just about everthing, only problem is that it's quite expensive.

The best site I've found so far for tutorials is Planet Photoshop. Most of what I've done so far has been inspired from the video tutorials (by Corey Barker).







This was all about cutting out hair, then placing it on another background. It wasn't actually as hard as I thought it was going to be, as long as it's photoshop that does it. I can't imagine doing it manually. ^^


And last but not least this is the Barcelona cathedral, pushing out of its boundaries.

Barcelona in Colour

This is a colourful version of Barcelona. The original photo was taken from up high, by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

Samus

Here's a picture of Samus from Metroid Prime Hunters

Haunted

Liquid fire