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!

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.