Two Dimensional Design

proportional design

2008-05-16T20:11:00.002-04:00

I'm sorry to see this class come to a close. I've enjoyed everyone's work. I beleive we have all come a long way with our designs. We all started off a little unsure of what we had gotten ourselves into but in the end our work shows how we have all improved. I've really enjoyed everyone's work as I hope you have enjoyed mine. Best of Luck to All.

College is done...for now.

2008-05-16T16:44:00.003-04:00

Here is the final assignment. I fell off track there a bit toward the end without the movies, but I really enjoyed this class. In fact, I grabbed a copy of Adobe's Master Suite(don't ask) to play around with going forward...7G to do a full install!

Proportion

2008-05-15T23:34:00.002-04:00

I had trouble with my marquee tools in photoshop so I used the paint software in accessories on microsoft. Hope it looks ok.

Proportional Design

2008-05-15T22:02:00.003-04:00

These are my first attempts at this assignment. Hope to have time to do a couple more. I think I tried to due too much with the last 2. I think the proportions are easier to see in the first 3. I guess I'll stick to the KISS principle.

the last project

2008-05-15T19:54:00.002-04:00

Jerry, I tried that last project but on Photoshop elements six on the marquee tool that you stated does not have vertical or hortizontal tools. I tried with the pencil but it did not work.
Sorry.

Enjoyed the class after all it was fun.

Sonya

2008-05-15T12:47:00.002-04:00

Jerry CS3 died on me before i could finish.I had to download gimp to finish this

2008-05-15T01:14:00.000-04:00

New & Old

Depressed

2008-05-14T22:43:00.000-04:00

Confused

2008-05-14T22:42:00.000-04:00

2008-05-14T22:38:00.000-04:00

DIRECT LIGHT

2008-05-14T21:39:00.000-04:00

PHOTSTAMP TREES

2008-05-14T20:00:00.001-04:00

TRYING TO CATCH UP

JERRY I HOPE I DID THIS RIGHT

Letterform Flag

2008-05-14T19:44:00.003-04:00

This letterform was clearer than the last one.

cropped letterform

2008-05-14T18:20:00.002-04:00

Proportional Art

2008-05-14T17:59:00.000-04:00

Quartered Circles

2008-05-14T17:58:00.000-04:00

I forgot to put a title on my last post.

2008-05-14T17:56:00.000-04:00

Letterform as a Design

2008-05-14T17:53:00.001-04:00

If you look closely, this design is of the letter M in a wave pattern - Steph

Gradient Circles

2008-05-14T17:51:00.000-04:00

Cropped Letterform

2008-05-14T17:46:00.002-04:00

Dear Jerry,

After this posting, I am all caught up!!! I hope I did these assignments correctly. If not let me know, and I will be happy to change them. Thank you so much for all of your help and patience. - Steph

2008-05-14T15:42:00.000-04:00

assingment 7

2008-05-13T21:17:00.003-04:00

I found this black and white tree on google images. I pasted it 4 times rotated each layer. the left side to the right and the right side to the left, then I flattened the image.

The Art of Proportion

2008-05-13T20:14:00.006-04:00

Here are some of my attempts at Proportion.
I added gradients to one, which gives it a different look, although it is a similar design to another I created.. All are posted on Photothing

Joe

Assignment 6

2008-05-13T20:03:00.002-04:00

Here's Positive and negative space. I chose the letter B and increased it size until I liked what I saw. The rest are on fotothing.

Bryon

Project 14

2008-05-12T21:25:00.003-04:00

For my final entry, I played with the textures in GIMP and came up with the wood theme that incorporates 5 different wood grains, I just thought it looks cool. The second one is my take on a baseball diamond and the last one is my rendition of a bumble bee, black and yellow are always strikings together. Thanks for all your kind comments on my past projects.

LETTER WRAP

2008-05-12T19:15:00.004-04:00

Here is my attempt at letter wrap, and trying to get text to follow a path.
I could not get text to follow a path and have it turn out legible in Gimp. The results were jumbled, and in purple. I increased the size of my image, and then I could see an outline of my text, but couldn't do anything with it. It was almost like Gimp did not recognize the image. Any ideas on what I was doing wrong?

The Green and black image is the letter D which I used the curve distort on. I flipped the image and then repeated it.

The black and white image is the sentence "My 1968 Camaro is f f a s s t t t t" which I used the curve distort on to look something like the

Silhouette

of a car, and then made seamless, and repeated.

Joe

2008-05-12T18:57:00.002-04:00

Fifteen boxes in one

2008-05-12T18:29:00.002-04:00

Jerry you are right, How about this...

2008-05-12T01:34:00.000-04:00

letter M

2008-05-12T01:26:00.003-04:00

Hope this is ok..

Letter Wrap

2008-05-11T23:49:00.003-04:00

After I my first attempt something clicked with the tools and I was able to create a couple of designs that I'm really pleased with. These two designs were created using Canvas 9. To answer Jerrys question, I've been going back and forth between GIMP which I have on my home computer and Canvas 9 which I have at work. My work computer was upgraded just after we started this class and Canvas 9 was included as part of the software package. I had no past expericence using this type of software so each assignment has been a learning expericence for me.

2008-05-11T22:59:00.002-04:00

This took me all night...I even installed CS3 as Gimp does not have an option comparable to warp that CS3 has. I bounced between programs until I came up with this less than worthy result.

Project 12

2008-05-11T22:24:00.003-04:00

This was a cool project, the software was addictive once I figured it out. I could play with these designs for hours.

Videos?

2008-05-11T19:57:00.001-04:00

Are there any videos available? Are they posted elsewhere?

cropped letters/ week 5

2008-05-11T15:46:00.002-04:00

finally got it

Assignment 11

2008-05-09T23:14:00.002-04:00

Just starting to understand the use of the tools for this assignment. Here's my first design. More to follow.

Assignment 6

2008-05-09T22:52:00.003-04:00

Positive and negative space. Finally got back to this assignment hopefully I got it right. I think by using the geometric shapes its easy to see the changes in positive and negative space. I changed things up in the last design but kept with the geometric shapes.

week 5

2008-05-09T21:38:00.002-04:00

I just cannot seem to get colored added into to this but i will keep at it. I may know how to end it by the time the class ends. Moving along onto project 6. Wish me luck!!!!!!!!

Waiting for a Traffic Signal

2008-05-09T08:26:00.003-04:00

This represents the proportion of time it seems we wait at traffic lights.

2008-05-09T01:42:00.003-04:00

Letter Path

2008-05-08T23:01:00.001-04:00

My first attempt at Letterforms. The letter N

try 3

2008-05-08T22:57:00.001-04:00

I'm really getting the hang of this.

Photographic stamp 2

2008-05-08T22:35:00.003-04:00

You were right Jerry, it only took 1 sec. I saw the difference right away. Thanks! Nikki

photographic stamp

2008-05-07T23:31:00.002-04:00

I found this one to be a bit challenging. I had to put what I learned to work. I couldn't follow the video because it wasn't working right. I hope it came out right.

Assignment 10 # 2

2008-05-07T20:42:00.003-04:00

I made another attempt at this. I still cannot get the shadow to reflect on the ground. Any suggestion? I think that this one came out a little better than the first. I also tried making multiply sphere and that did not work for me. I am not very artistic but I try my best.

Planets

2008-05-07T16:08:00.001-04:00

Celtic Knot and Tesselation Projects....

2008-05-07T15:40:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone... You may skip the projects on the syllabus labeled Escher Tesselation and the one on Celtic knots as those of you with Photoshop Elements won't be able to do them without a pen tool... CS2 and CS3 have it and undoubtedly Gimp does too... but to keep everyone on the same page, instead do the project titled proportion that I recently added...

We are heading into the last few days of the class... all the work will be due a week from today...

Hang in there... remember... ask for help if you need it... you should all be doing pretty well with the process by now... Remember to observe the deadline dates for withdrawals and incomplete forms to be filled out if you need that too....

Circles within Circles

2008-05-07T06:38:00.002-04:00

I have now mastered the color thing, stay tuned !

Assignment 10

2008-05-06T21:32:00.003-04:00

Finally!

2008-05-06T20:37:00.002-04:00

I've been a bit lazy in my work here...just last night finished up my Senior Humanities as well as my Senior Computer Project...now I can give this the attention it deserves. Here are the quarter circle pics from last week. They've been sitting in my laptop collecting dust! Sorry about that.

2008-05-06T16:07:00.001-04:00

lost, not sure confused

Positive/ Negatives

2008-05-06T13:30:00.002-04:00

Here is my third positive/ negative picture that has an important message. We all really do count and can make a difference....Steph

2008-05-06T13:05:00.002-04:00

Dear Jerry,

I hope this what you meant by 50/50, if not, let me know and I will do it again until I get it correct.

Thank You, Steph

Project 10 and 11

2008-05-04T20:55:00.004-04:00

Well I'm back to using GIMP, my PSE6 trial ran out, but PSE6 really helped me with figuring out GIMP it's not as daunting a task as it was in week one. Anyway these are my two projects I did for this week, and I'm still working on another for the 11th project so keep an eye out for it on my fotothing page. I had some problem getting the blur tool to work to where I thought it should be.

Sphere with shadow and gradient

2008-05-04T20:42:00.002-04:00

Assingment 10

2008-05-04T10:36:00.003-04:00

This assignment was actually easy this week. This looks like the moon on a dark stormy night out in the distance at sea.

Assignment 10

2008-05-02T17:44:00.003-04:00

I really liked this assignment. So many options with this assignment. I want to create more of these designs. Hope you like what I've done thus far.

Assignment 9

2008-05-02T17:35:00.003-04:00

The drawing tools are becoming easier to work with as we progress with the assignments.

wk five

2008-05-01T19:01:00.002-04:00

man cs3 is so much easier than gimp.. thank again i just mimicked your image. now that i have cs3 it time to practice!!!

2008-05-01T16:57:00.001-04:00

Two diffrent types of "S"" but different variations

2008-05-01T16:54:00.001-04:00

Some how i had trouble getting the colors to work after i flatten the image .Any suggestions?

2008-04-30T16:17:00.006-04:00

Rambuncious, Loving, Produtive, & Precious

Re-post of Positive/ Negative Space

2008-04-30T14:03:00.005-04:00

Dear Jerry,

I hope I revised this project the way I was supposed to. For some reason this project confused me a bit. Please let me know if there is anything I need to change to get it right.

Thanks for your help, Steph

Assignment 8

2008-04-30T00:49:00.003-04:00

I found this a fun assignment. I want to create some more images with different colors and try inverting with some different combinations of the sliced circle.

Assignment 7

2008-04-30T00:44:00.002-04:00

I'm most pleased with the results of this assignment. I found an image of a bare tree and used that to create my stamp. I played with the contrast to change the lighting of the image.

Assignment 5

2008-04-30T00:35:00.002-04:00

My images were not as artistic as ones that others created. I'm not sure if it's the font or size of the stroke that gave me problems. In the first image I chose the letter K and did a 60 degree image. Second image was a G in gigi font at 30 degrees and the third was a Y in papyrus font at 30 degrees. Last 2 images were both done with the 6K image.

Assignment 4

2008-04-30T00:28:00.003-04:00

Sorry for not being able to post my work but I,ve been away for an extended period of time. I have done my best to keep pace with the assignments. I will be posting several assignments except for assignment 6 which is giving some trouble. In my first attempt I didn't invert the images just pasted them. Here they are inverted.

Gradients

2008-04-29T20:08:00.003-04:00

I experimented with this project, and was happy with the results. I could not figure out how to cast a shadow onto the largest sphere from the small sphere in the upper right. Anyone have any ideas??

Joe

The Cropped Letterform

2008-04-29T18:58:00.004-04:00

I used the letter G for the Cropped Letterform project. As usual, once the image was repeated many times, it produced an intersting design.

Joe

GRADIENTS

2008-04-28T22:38:00.002-04:00

Gradients

2008-04-28T22:19:00.001-04:00

This was fun and quite easy!

CROPPED LETTER

2008-04-28T21:52:00.002-04:00

I had a hard time with this one. I used the french script MT with the letter G. It's the lower half of the letter.

photostamp

2008-04-28T21:35:00.002-04:00

Had a little bit of a hard time manipulating the layers and getting them to copy on the canvas. Did anyone else have a hard time with the Audio for this video? Well here's the link and the picture. fotothing

The Quarter Circle

2008-04-28T20:29:00.004-04:00

Here are a couple of attempts at the Quarter Circle project. Once my shapes were tiled, they produce interesting patterns. I like the textured look on the green one, which was produced by using the mosaic effect.

Joe

Rotatational

2008-04-28T19:57:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone,

Here's my Rotational letter. Its the letter B...I know very original. Here's the link to my fotothing http://www.fotothing.com/bm222/fotothing.com

I was using Gimp and i'm a real big fan of open source software but I must say that's Elements is easier to use and works as expected. I had a lot of "weird" things happen that I couldn't back out of in Gimp.

positive/negative

2008-04-28T19:42:00.002-04:00

Quarter Circle 2

2008-04-28T00:19:00.002-04:00

After doing the first quarter circle I tried another one. I added color with this one. This one was fun to create. I like the effect that the bevel and emboss gives it.

QUATER CIRCLE

2008-04-27T23:48:00.002-04:00

This way a little easier. Thanks to the video.

positive/negative

2008-04-27T21:58:00.003-04:00

Finally here is my negative and positive space. I had trouble with the video, (still not working) but I tried to do it on my own with the help of my boyfriend. I was afraid to do it on my own because I am so used to following the videos.

Assignment 5-Quater Circle and Cropped Letter

2008-04-27T20:55:00.002-04:00

I found this particular to be very challenging. I didnt like it as much as the other projects at all. The cropped letter I chose was k.

Photo Stamp

2008-04-27T18:04:00.011-04:00

Of the two photos I chose to use, I think the black and yielded more interesting results. I'm having some problems with some blank areas showing up when I tile the images, can anyone offer any ides as to why?

Could it be the way I crop the images?

Joe

Week 5 projects

2008-04-27T16:22:00.002-04:00

This was a good project because I learned how to use the effects on PSE. The letter I chose for the cropped letter project was a G in the font of French Script MT

2008-04-27T10:41:00.001-04:00

This one came out much better in the design sof diamonds. It took me a while with this project.

Qtr circle

2008-04-27T10:39:00.003-04:00

Here is one of my images from the Qtr circle I did not choose to do much colors.

Qtr Circle / Cropped Letter T

2008-04-27T10:28:00.003-04:00

Thanks again Jerry, the videos are very helpful, and the tips you mention are useful - i.e. ctl-0. I used a couple different color and layer effects on these.

The rainbow colored picture is a cropped letter T

Here is another...

2008-04-26T16:23:00.001-04:00

Here is another...I've played with this a bit and I think it is better than the last.

Photostamp/ 4 way mirror of Bridge

2008-04-26T13:39:00.002-04:00

Here is the 4 way mirror of the same picture.

Week 5 assignment 2 K

2008-04-26T11:30:00.002-04:00

This assignment was not difficult this week I was able to hear the video and the steps were not bad. I am getting the hang of things. Hope you enjoy my images of K's...

Photo Stamp of Bklyn Bridge

2008-04-26T02:16:00.002-04:00

I had to pick the Brooklyn Bridge. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and as far back as I could remember, this bridge has been my favorite structure. My office is filled with Bklyn Bridge pictures in every light, now I have one more to add. This picture reminds me of a Spiderman comic, with all of the webbing on the bridge.

Positive/ Negative Space

2008-04-26T01:31:00.001-04:00

Positive/ Negative Hearts

2008-04-26T00:43:00.002-04:00

Dear Jerry,

I hope this is considered positive/ negative space, if not I will try to add to it. - Steph

Initail Rotated

2008-04-25T23:50:00.002-04:00

I have to say, this is my favorite project so far. I never realized how beautiful a letter can be! This was fun!!

Dots Finally Mirrored

2008-04-25T22:30:00.002-04:00

I know I titled my last post as Dots Mirrored, but I guess I really didn't know what mirrored dots look like, until now, so here are my mirrored dots, finally.---Steph

Positive & Nagative II

2008-04-25T14:29:00.001-04:00

I call this checker cab

Positive & Negative (again)

2008-04-25T14:15:00.002-04:00

Finally i got it to post.I created it in AI But had some difficulty saving it as a JPG. So i re did it it Photoshop what do you think?...

Okay

2008-04-25T13:11:00.004-04:00

Looking at what others did, I think I got this right...the original pic is on fotothing from one of my old digital photo classes.

Week 5 The Cropped Letterform

2008-04-25T12:14:00.003-04:00

Here is the second project for this week... The Cropped Letterform... Have fun, create variations, post an example here to the blog and put your other examples in you fotothing portfolio....

Week 5 Movies

2008-04-25T11:36:00.001-04:00

Here is a method for creating a from from quarter circles... I reinstalled Camtasia (movie creation software) and I thinkk the audio problem is finally solved.... Let me know...

Enjoy... -Jerry

Positive/Negative Space

2008-04-24T21:43:00.007-04:00

Positive and Negative space. As Jerry said in the syllibus, it can be difficult to understand what the form is in these.
Tiling the images created some interesting patterns.

Joe

More Rotational Design

2008-04-24T21:25:00.006-04:00

Here's a couple of tiled versions of one of my rotational designs. I think the design lost some of its interesting features when I reduced its size.

Joe