Final - Magazine Cover

I used a layered composition for this cover. The background is a great photo I took at Yosemite. I didn't think it needed any adjustments at all. The "trekker" photo I used on the right is one I took of my husband while hiking in New Zealand. I masked everything to his left and set him on a different rock in Yosemite. A few text effects like a red drop shadow, bevel and glow helped the masthead text to "pop" from the page and hopefully grab the viewer. I used only the Trajan Pro font (it comes only in caps) for a clean consistent look.

Lesson 14 - Last of Groovy Photoshop Techniques

Pop Dots

Using Text as a Clipping Mask

I found a couple of nice surreal images at creative.ly. In the first one I applied a few effects such as bevelling and changing the color. In the second one I warped the text and moved it to another area of the image.

Lesson 13

Part 1: Masks, Knockouts, and Luminance Blending

Here's my result from following the tutorial:

Part 2: Depth of Field with Layer Mask

This photo from creative.ly is of the Petronas Towers taken by A. Cassini. This effect works well with looking up at something very tall.

Lesson 12 - Introduction to Masks

I found a T Rex that was perfect for this background:

This masking technique worked well with this image:

Lesson 11 - Plugins

I found plugins to be quite impressive once I got past the initial frustration of getting them to show up under filters. Here is one from Harry's filters using pattern and random art.

This plugin from Filter Forge distorts an image. It really changed how a face looks, creating different people from the original Shakespeare:

Original then plugin using distort/noise and distort/noise/large angle:

Another nice effect is using the distort with bumpy glass:

This plugin from Redfield converts an image from http://creative.ly/ into a sketch:

These plugins create a Rain Blur and Dawning using another photo from http://creative.ly/ . They are from The Plug in Site: