My Portfolio

Ocean

The first image I ever made in Photoshop CS3, using the built-in brushes. I really like the clouds.

Stained Glass

The first assignment where we really got to have fun with layers and filters. The window was created by applying the Stained Glass filter to a photo of flowers, and the background was created from an airbrushed foam block, found at a mini-golf course. Yeah.

Scrapbook

A scrapbooking assignment, using pre-made pieces (excluding the two photos, which are mine). The shadows add a nice touch of realism.

B&B Bathtub Cleaners

Part 1 of our first assignment creating Web layouts in Photoshop. I used a stock photo of tiles for the background, a floral brush for the flower behind the text, and a picture of a gross bathtub, slightly tweaked to look even grosser. I should use this layout again.

Silent Laughter

Part 2 of the aforementioned assignment. Used a clone brush to make the "twins," which sounds kinda silly when I could have just copy-pasted, but it was part of the assignment. I hate mimes and felt really weird doing this layout, but I guess it turned out okay. And they say monochrome is hard to do...

rusted logic

A mock-up of a possible design for rusted logic, the lovely site you're viewing now. If using bevels was a crime, I'd be in jail for six consecutive life sentences.

In retrospect, this design is pretty and well-organized, but would be nigh-impossible to scale gracefully. And the content area makes me yawn.

PhotoDoc

Part 1 of the second half of our Photoshop final. We were given something like an hour and a half to make two Web layouts in Photoshop. Eeek.

Only two non-colors here, but I kinda like the simplicity. Has kind of a newsletter feel to it.

Life's a Beach

Part 2 of the aforementioned final. Hooray, it's a blog!

The clone brush is kinda tough to use in Web layouts. I just gave this one the Silent Laughter treatment and cloned the guy on the beach. I guess I did okay, since my instructor couldn't figure out where I used the brush. Heheh.

rusted logic (current)

The site you're looking at now. Yay redundancy!