tuscan kitchen
A photo taken in the kitchen of a villa in Tuscany, freshly picked potatoes and herbs. The colors were beautiful, yet adding the poster edges filter and then posterizing and cropping made this image more interesting.
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tiled background
Love tiled backgrounds and have dabbled a bit in making my own, so here is one I just spent about 25 mins on. The original photo was taken of a cool brick wall in Colonia, Uruguay last Spring. I cropped out a square image and followed this Photoshop tutorial to make it appear “seamless”.
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Well missed the deadline for yesterday’s post, oh well. Here is a necklace I just made from my stash of beads and findings in my beading area. These are very large Peruvian opals with a silver nugget spacer. Its about 24″ long and took me about 20 mins. to make. I saw a woman wearing a similar design at a bead show about a year ago and have stalled in the plan to make something like it, so this was an opportunity to open my beading shop for the design of the day. Beading is soooo therapeutic for me, but its way way on the back burner since I started web design full time. Too bad, I could use some mindless fun.
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I am getting ready to undecorate for the new year – yeah! I took photos of poinsettia’s to make a holiday card for a friend this year. So I chose one and came up with this with a little photoshop tweeking. 10 mins flat!
new year’s resolution
An Illustrator challenge for me- experimenting with clipping masks and swatches. My New Year’s resolution is to use this design challenge to learn new skills every day even if its a small task or a brush up on things I already know. Wishing myself luck :0)
Knives – photo to sketch
I am working on a website for a friend who is opening a sandwich shop. He wants to collect and display vintage knives above the counter in their work area. We took photos of a random grouping of knives he found in the basement of the building he is in left from previous tenants. I wanted to do something creative within the design of the website to incorporate them. So I ended up using Photoshop to create a pen and ink drawing look to the photos I had taken, moved them around and used the resulting image in vertical repeat across the bottom of each web page above the footer.
It took me several hours to figure out the necessary filters to use to get this effect but the final sketch took only about 20 mins. There still remains some work to refine the lines in the final image.
Original Photo
knives sketch with photoshop
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