26. Showcase

This was my favorite project to make because almost everything I did was from scratch. I created the showroom buy making a series of rectangles and establishing which sides were gonna be the sides walls, the floor, the ceiling, and the back wall. I then adjusted their anchor points to make it so the rectangles looked like a room. I added a different layer style to each of the walls so that the reflection of light looked as realistic as possible. To make the lights on the ceiling, I made two circles: one with a layer style and one that was white and slightly smaller than the first one. To make the spotlight, I made an ellipse on the floor and on the back, used a filter to blur them, and adjusted the opacity. I repeated that exact process 2 more times to make a total of 3 lights. I put myself in the showcase by taking a picture of myself, cropping myself, and pasting myself inside the show room. The only thing that was not my original work was the picture of Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots, in the middle.

I saw the showroom project as an opportunity to show some support for my favorite team, who's going to the SuperBowl XLIX to face the Seattle Seahawks. Let's go Pats!

25. Animated Button

This assignment was like many other projects I did in photoshop. First I made an circle with the ellipse tool, added drop shadow and made it black. I made another circle and added a different layer style with the colors silver and white. To make the aluminum finish, I used the rectangle marquee tool to make a selection around the button and filled it with black. Afterwards, I added a noise filter and a radial blur filter. I removed the excess aluminum from the around the circle so that it would only appear on the smaller circle. I downloaded the power button from a website and pasted it onto the button. The glowing effect was made by using the blending options. 

What was different about this project was that at the end, I added an animation where I it looked as if the button was turning on and off. 

24 3D Gingerbread House

The purpose of this project was to make the gingerbread house that I made look 3-D. I saved a picture of a tree stump and opened it in photoshop. This will be my background. Next, I opened the picture of the gingerbread house and cropped the picture so that I could get the house by itself. I then copied and pasted the house onto the background and made a copy of it. I unchecked the channels in the blending options for each copy. Lastly, I moved the layers slightly apart to make the effect you see above. 

23. Gingerbread House

Front

Side

Back

Making the gingerbread house from scratch was pretty difficult. The first step was to choose a photo of a gingerbread house to model mine after. Afterwards, I made a rectangle with a triangle on the top and used the push/pull tool to make it three dimensional. I made about 28 circles to model the M&M's on the original gingerbread house. 26 of the circles line the bottom of the house and 2 are next to the door. to make the windows, I simply made a rectangle on the wall where I wanted it and then used the paint tool to apply the "transparent glass" color. To make the shingles, I used the the arc tool. I raised every other row of shingles by an inch to give it a more 3-dimensional look. Last, I went inside the house and colored the walls with a "wood panel" color.