The wonderful world of making pictures.

Did you ever sit down and think about how people make pictures? When someone asks you to draw a picture, you instantly run to a piece of paper, grab some colouring pencils and get to work. But did you ever think about drawing pictures using other things? Like, oh lets say, Photoshop?! I personally use photoshop to fix pictures, but never to create one. Im sure that less people use photoshop for creating their own uniqe, individual pictures. And I'm not talking about copy and pasting pictures and fixing them, I'm talking about creating a picture, from scratch.
Yesterday in class, we learned how to make our own pictures from scratch using photoshop. And how interesting I must say it was. Mr.Case showed us how to make our own pictures using photoshop tools. He started out with something very simple. Drawing a brick wall. It was very interesting, the way you can make artwork with photoshop and make it look real. We looked at Bert Monroy's picture. It was amazing, the details he had put into the pictures he had made with only photoshop tools and nothing else. Here's a site you can go on to look at some of the amazing things he does.
Bertmonroy.com
http://www.econsultant.com/web-design-galleries/b/bertmonroy-com.html
It's amazing what you can really do with only photoshop.

Anyways, back to what I was saying before. Here are some tips you should know.
The most common sizes for printing are 8x10 and 5x7. Gaussian means it is a random motion.
But do you know what uniform means? It means the same all the way.
Here's another trick Mr.Case did to make the brick wall. He merged all the slides. Meaning he put all the layers together. Keep in mind that if there is an eye icon beside your layer, it will be merged. In order to prevent that, you click on the eye icon and remove it so that it will stay unaffected.
There were many other cool things that Mr.Case did in order to turn a single rectangle into a piece of a brick wall. From making some places darker, some places look like the brick has broken or is cracked, to many other interesting things.
We were supposed to spend the rest of the class time exploring photoshop and trying to come up with out own unique picture made from only photoshop tools.
Have fun, and be creative!
Bye.

- Peggy .