Mario’s Learner Blog

This week during 20% time I found a photoshop tutorial named Warps & Vortexes, it showed me how to create a cool warp look. The first thing that I did for this tutorial was create a new document and filled it with a black background. Then I had to add clouds.

Next, I did Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and used the settings it told me to.

Last, I changed the HUE/SATURATION settings and chose the color that I wanted, that finalized the tutorial

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This week during 20% time i found a tutorial that showed me how to do abstract swirls that look like black ink when it hits clear water. This tutorial’s hardest part was when I had to get the right wave setting so that the tutorial came out the way I wanted it to. First I had to create a lens flare and place it in the middle of the image.

Next, I had to make lines with the smudge tool. After that, I had to create waves and mess around witht the image until I got the image I was satisfied with.

Then I had to duplicate the layer and create waves with the duplicated layer.

Next, I had to merge the two layers together. Lastly, I then changed the image to inverted which gave it the cool black and white look.

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This week during 20% time I went on this website called Absolute Cross and found a neon photoshop tutorial that showed me how to make a neon type look. The first thing I had to do was create a new document with a light blue foreground color and a dark blue background color. After that I had to make clouds of the light and dark blue.

Next, I had to add paint daubs so that it would give the image some sparkle.

Finally, the image came out like this even though I was hoping for a different look. I tried a few times to fix my mistake and correct t but I never did.

This week during 20% time I found a photoshop tutorial that showed me how to create a starry night background.  This tutorial involved using alot of Gaussian Blur effects. First step I had to add noise which gave the background a bunch of white dots.

Next I had to use the Gaussian Blur effect, this reduced the amount of stars but also brightened the stars that were left.

Lastly, I airbrushed a few of the stars so that they looked like they were bright and made those stars stand out more.

This week during 20% time I found a photoshop tutorial called Electrified Solar Flare, this tutorial showed me how to create a cool looking image that resembled a solar flare. In this tutorial I selected a transparent rainbow tool and created lines across the document but I still left some blank space throughout the document.

Then after that I had to make the lines look rippled, then I blurred the image with the radial blur filter.

Then I duplicated both of them images. After that I had to change the Hue/Saturation setting on both layers, this messes with the color of the image.

Lastly, I merged the two layers together. Then I had to rotate the image 90 degrees.