Web Design & Development

My top 3 favourite website:

1. DeviantART.com --> I like it because I can post my art in that website and look at other people arts, such as photography, digital art, traditional art and is a good website to find resources.

2. Livejournal.com --> It have the community that I like. It also have good resources and updates of some translations on interviews and scans.

3. Crunchyroll.com --> Good website to keep updates with the latest anime/manga and free watch.
It also have forums where users can post their thoughts and discuss in certain topics.


Least favourite website:
1. Wikipedia --> Unreliable source to get information. Can be very misleading. Users can easily change the information.

2. Ask.com --> I dislike the search engine, it can bring out unrelated information.

3. Brentwood homepage --> Log in problem sometimes occur.

City experience

A collage of my trips to the city. I know, I know it doesn't look much like a collage but I got to play around with the features in photoshop. I made this quite a while ago when my dad told me to make something out of photoshop using the pictures we took ._.
thought I'll share my memories with the class since these were some of my favourite pictures.
The blue looking glowing things is meant to be a UFO :D
(no I'm just joking it's actually a pretty cool looking jelly fish that we saw in Melbourne aquarium.)
and there was a spiral stairs that fascinated my dad to take a picture xDD

My Magazine cover

Phew I finally finished my magazine cover for the first IT project. ^^;
I did the magazine cover based on a japanese rockband, featuring the singer on the cover of the magazine. There is actually a magazine called Arena 37 C and since I liked the font and the name of the magazine I decided to take the title and put it as my magazine cover.

This task to me a very long time to finish since I didn't know what edits I should make with the person and also I took a very long time to find a right picture for my magazine layout.

First I removed all the red spheres that was interfering with the original stock image and put some textures on the background to 'spice up' the image. I find that his face is a little bit too yellow/orange so I decided to toned it down a bit. I also tried to remove his eye bags but it didn't look as good as the original so I decided to keep the eye bags.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome of my final product of the magazine cover.
Here is my magazine cover. (First image 'before', Second image 'after')



On a side note..
I got the texture and some custom fonts from here:

http://amiens-stock.deviantart.com/art/Grunge-Texture-15-81833088?q=boost%3Apopular+grunge+background&qo=121

http://dknucklesstock.deviantart.com/art/Grunge-Texture-99-141306559?q=boost%3Apopular+grunge+background&qo=136

http://www.dafont.com/

Blending practice

Just a task we did for IT.
Played around with blending techniques.
Used Kirsten Dunst as the stock photo and this is the result I came up with :)

The Bourne Motion Blur Effect

One of the task I did for IT. Experimented with the blur effect using Photoshop. It was pretty easy since the tutorial was pretty direct and easy to follow.