SMS Graduation 2010

Kelly and Sticky Coffee Ad

CHIPOTLE !!!

Macbeth's Last Supper

Adobe Illustrator: Day One

online photoshop editing

Google Analytics- 1 Month Update

Alright, so I though I would check back on Google Analytics and see how the one month anniversary of my blog is going. Turns out it is going pretty good. After 1 month, I have had 165 first time visits and 225 page views. People have viewed my blog from Florida, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and Virginia. My bounce rate is 73.33%. Most of my blog views are directed from Twitter or Facebook with some referrals from my friend's blogs. I have really come to enjoy blogging, it's a great way to communicate and get yourself out there in the world !

Parent's Weekend at SMS !!

So this parents weekend has been pretty amazing. Yesterday, the entire school community gathered to dedicate the Rebecca Ann McGill Memorial "Gazubi" Gazebo.The skies cleared up and the sun came out for a beautiful dedication ceremony. Mimi and Dave gave a wonderful speech and Beckie's minister came and gave a wonderful blessing ceremony to the gazebo. Since the Gazebo's arrival kids and staff alike have been sharing memories in the gazebo. It is a great place for everyone to go and sit with their classmates and teachers and just talk about their crazy lives. Some teacher are even conducting classes out there ! After the ceremony, all the kids and adults went into the gazebo; it fits quite a lot of happy people. After the dedication there was a reception in the Library for the adults while the students prepareed for the Undergraduate Awards Dinner. The sophomores were all dressed in white and tan to serve the meal. The night was great with many students going home with wonderful well earned awards. It was my last Undergrad dinner, Seniors 2011 !!!

Color Pop Photoshop !

taken at 11:39pm on may 13th....oh yeah seniors 2011 haha

FWD:wheaties new haircut

wheaties new haircut

Merging Photos

CS4 Filter Gallery Work

WWF Rainforest Ad

On Friday in digital media we re-created a WWF ad about the trees in the rain-forests and jungles. To make this ad we had to use Photoshop CS4 to manipulate the photos and make trees have the appearance of cheetah and tigers.

To start off we placed the rainforest image in the palette and used the pen tool to outline the trees we wanted to re-texture. After that was done, we placed the texture over the tree,selected the path and in-versed the selection so that all of the extra design was erased except for the parts on the tree. Then using the burn and dodge and blur tools we touched up the photos so they would blend in. Then in a jif I put in the writing and the logo and was all done. Pretty simple really.

The hardest part about the ad was making the texture look as natural as possible. I spent a good amount of time burning shadows and dodging highlights into the trees. Overall it was a pretty cool way to change up a photo !

Mas Photoshop Day 2

sassy girls...in the bret mobile going to vissards confirmation !!!!

Have you ever wanted to put someone in a random photo ? Well with Photoshop YOU CAN !!

Compliments to Matt Boobar and the SMS girls soccer team for providing a perfect instance for the use of photoshop on everyday photos !!

A Little More CS4

Exploding Carrots ?!?

Photoshop CS4

So the digital media class began learning how to use photoshop this week and as you can see its getting pretty intense. Photoshop comes in handy a lot. If you have a dark picture you can brighten it up. Someone you don't like? Cut'em out using the clone stamp tool. The possibilities are endless with Photoshop and CS5 is making a huge splash as well with tons of updated new tools and photo manipulation ideas. I am pretty pumped to use photoshop to edit my pictures and add that perfect artistic touch to my photography. Being able to manipulate photos gives photographers so much more room to personalize their photos and make a strong point.Photoshop is really revolutionizing the media of today; get on the web today and take CS4 or any other great Adobe products for a test drive at adobe.com !

nice little saturday night fire with the Taylors !!

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