Logo Design

Currently I'm working on my own brand identity, as I hope to, finally, set up my own website. Anyway in preparation, I've been working on a logo ideas. (On the left is my favourite so far.) It was originally an old button used for my website template, however, I quite like the hand written style of it all, so this has to be in the top 3 of logo ideas. Also, turns out Shamim reads my blog. Hello, Shamim.

Airbrushing

I've be exploring airbrushing and photo manipulation I played around with blending options, and later the hue and saturation to achieve a different hair colour and change the eye make a little; also used the gaussian blur and high pass filter to airbrush. The pretty girl in the photos, is once again my friend Phillippa, (check out her blog, it's super awesome) Below are the original and edited photos:

Yet more photoshop practice...

Experimenting with some type today, I've used Avant Garde, for this; I think I'm growing quite fond this particular typeface!

More Photoshopping!

Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time editing some photos.
Below are the original and photoshopped version of the images. I've tried to make it seem like a studio shot, so I cut the figure out of the scene, dropped in a white to very light grey gradient in the background, added a shadow, played around with curves and hue/saturation on the hair and tights. And there it is! (Also a fun fact: the pretty girl in the photo is my friend Philippa!)

 

Computer Arts Tutorial

I decided to treat myself to a copy of Computer Arts for the train journey home, and there was this great little tutorial on page 60. It gave some really good insights into using grids and smart guides in Illustrator. The mains letters 'S' and 'C' were created in Illustrator, then there was some photoshopping magic, to add the glow effect and a little background texture. Below is my version of the final image, it's not my best, but it's really helped me in getting to grips with Illustrator.

Photoshopping Fun!

Today, I've been practising lots of techniques on Photoshop; I found some really good tutorials online which have helped loads! Here's something I photoshopped together, overall all there were sooo many layers in the .PSD file, I was surprised my Mac could still function.

I quite like the neon-y look it's got going on, I think it still needs a lot refinement, regardless. I want to trying working with a sans-seirf style next! Perhaps a little-tribute- to-Helvetica wallpaper?