Artsy Fartsy ...

Salutations my platitudinous plebeians!

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Ha! I'm just kidding, I adore you guys! (please don't kill me.)

I have basically been doing a few Photoshop effects experiments, when I stumbled across a 'Teen Book Cover' challenge on my friend's form. So I figured it was time to put the effects experiments into good use and try out a cover!

Problem was... I tried out a watercolour effect and I think I flunked it. But I didn't know if it was suitable to present or not, so I'm posting both the coloured cover and the watercolor cover because I wasn't sure which one was better. Besides! I can just use one for the blurb and one for the actual cover!

Anywhootzurs! You guys decide:

BEFORE:

 

AFTER (1):

AFTER (2):

So yeah!

I could just give you guys the 'blurb' that came with the assignment, but it was just your stereotypical 'girl tries to fit into her new school' teen flick, so I ain't going to waste my font space.

Was the coloured one a bit too flashy? I should've went easy on the paint shouldn't I?

Anywhoots,

I'll see if I've improved on the next one!

Gold Digger - Sin City Style

You ever look at a cupcake and thought: 'Wow, I should really Photoshop that into a kitten!' ?
If not then never mind, because I haven't either.
Anyway, I've basically been looking at different movie posters for my Media GCSE and then I came across a few posters that look a little something like this:

And I thought the effect of the harsh red against the black and white background was pretty cool, so I tried it out myself on Photoshop. Although, rather than doing a promoting movie poster, I decided to base the picture on something a little more seductive and ... deceitful? I don't know WHAT word to use for this subject, but my friend was putting a lot of Kanye West songs on my radio recently, so this kind of a song promoter was inevitable - 

BEFORE: 

AFTER:

Yeeaaahhh... I dunno.

I guess I was aiming for a seductive and mischievous/evil look by highlighting the bright red and the golden jewelry, but maybe I should've chosen a better picture.

OH!

And a friend of mine was great enough to remind me about the copyright rules so allow me to point out right now: ALL images that I have used so far are NOT mine and I am not distributing them and not using them for any higher purposes whatsoever! All of them I got from Google Images.

Later!

And you thought the Groot fever would die down...

I AM BACK SUCKERS~!!

Who missed me?!

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Of course nobody, why do I bother getting my hopes up?

ANYWHOOTS!
I am back with my Photoshop which I got with another trial and I dived right into the exquisite pleasures that Photoshop tutorials provides with it's intricate plots and that totally did not start to sound like a sexual innuendo halfway through the second half of that sentence...

So!

How did I start off after a long break?
Why, with a Photoshop of a celebrity who voices my FAVORITE tree character of all time! (Next to treebeard! Don't worry pal, you're still up there!)

So I basically found a few tutorials that showed you the arts of text Portraits and this is what I ended up with:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

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I'm not sure if this could be considered a little bit on the tacky side, but who cares? 

The main point of the story which we have learnt is:

I Am Groot.