Wood Text Effect

For this project we had to do a tutorial from Photoshopuser.com. I did a tutorial on how to give text the look that it was carved out of wood. You have to use 2 different pictures of wood but it wasn't too hard to do.

Virginia Festival of Fine Arts Poster

For this project, we had to make a poster for the Fine Arts Festival. There was certain information that we needed to include on the poster as well as the picture that was selected for this year. We worked in partners to complete this project, my partner being the infamous John Wilder. It was a pretty easy and fun project to do. Here is what we came up with for our poster:

250 Years of Charlottesville

This was for our midterm project and it was to represent Charlottesville. For my project, I started out by doing a clipping mask of the rotunda in the words 'CVILLE' and a picture of the blue ridge mountains behind it. I then decided to try and put an effect on the background and I did a mosaic tile pattern. I them tried to make the letters a little different and I ended up putting a different picture in each letter. It was actually a pretty fun project. Here is all three of the versions I did.

Designs on Paper--Photo Card

In the spirit of the holiday season, this project was to create a photo card. Instead of going mainstream and creating a Christmas or Holiday card or New Year's Card, I went with making a card for a less well known holiday. This holiday is called Appreciate a Dragon day and occurs on January 16. I made a card for my friend, John Wilder. I got some pictures of dragons and wrote a little note on the card. It was a pretty fun project just because it was so obscure of a holiday!

NOH8 Campaign Poster

For this project, we worked in partners to make a NOH8 Poster for the GSA Campaign at our school. My partner, John Wilder, and I, made a poster featuring a girl named Mackenzie. We put her picture in the top right corner and then made a border around the other three sides. We then put the campaign info on the bottom and a quote on the right side. I think that it turned out well and it was actually a pretty fun project to do.

Book Cover # 2

For this second book cover we had to make a cover for a book that we already have read. I used the book Running with the Buffaloes: A Season inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross Country Team by Chris Lear, one of my favorites. I used a picture of Mark Wetmore and Adam Goucher on the cover. I added an outer glow to both of them. I used the school colors, gold and black for the text and background covers and for the border.

Book Cover #1

For this project we had to create a cover for a book. For our first cover, we had to make a cover for a book that we have't read. For my book, I did In the Hear of the Sea: the tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. For my cover, I used a stormy sea picture, a crashing boat, a whale tail, and a small boat with a few people on it. It wasn't too hard of a project and a pretty good project.