Lava Text Effect

Hey everybody

We started to get photoshop tutorials off of the internet, and we presented what we learned from them.
I found a tutorial that  shows how to create lava text  and it's turned out pretty good.  I've gotten use to it so much that I don't need the tutorial on the screen anymore if I forget something. It wasn't really that difficult when learned what to do either. When I was done with the normal one I just started playing around with it and presto, I got the inverted one. You're gonna have to do this on photoshop. Here's how it's done:

• make the background black
• type white text,big and spaced out
• deselect everything, choose layer>flatten image
• choose filter, stylize>wind-apply twice both left & right
• choose filter, render>difference clouds
• type same text, same way in the earlier step, and position it on top of the original
• repeat the flatten image step
• deselect everything, press D to swap white/black stroke and fill
• choose filter, stylize>extrude
• choose image, adjustments>invert
• choose image , adjustments>color balance
• change midtone values to 100,0,0
• change shadow value to 80,0,-40
• change highlight value to 70,0,-70
  

If I remembered all the steps right there should this cool lava text in front of you, and if you want to see something else kind of cool then just repeat the invert step. Here's the normal one(bottom) and here's the inverted one(top).

Inspiration

Hey everybody,

What gives you inspiration? Many things give people inspiration to do or create something great. I might become inspired after an idea I just had. The idea might persuade me to get up and turn that thought into reality. For example,  on the last day during the 3rd week of my second class, I had gotten scared by a Halloween decoration and during the ride home I thought it would be very cool if someone would take that decoration and make a life size version of it. I was inspired to maybe get the idea out to someone with the ability to create it or if I could someday make it myself I would.

I hope that this has inspired you to get up and do something great to.

Making a Poster

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Well, Its October and our teacher had us get into groups to do a poster. The poster was Halloween based and the poster had to include everyone in the group. I did the wolf man's left arm and eyes. Until then I didn't quite get how to change a picture into another picture. I masked the eyes and changed them into werewolf eyes, and I also replaced some of the arms for werewolf arms. It took me a little bit to understand how to actually do this. Everyone else did their own thing and it turned out very good. Here's the poster:

Applying a logo to business

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We started to apply our logo to letters, business cards, and envelopes. We had to find the right size for business cards, envelopes, and letters. I changed the logo a bit by reflecting it and changing its opacity to about 40%. All I did on the letter was rearrange the words a tiny bit. I didn't change the font or its style all that much. Here's my business card, letter, and envelope that I created( they are still in the editing process):

Making a Logo cont.

Hey everybody again

I just got done with my second logo. I used the pen tool for most of this project and I can't really believe how easy it was compared to the first time. I thought about what I want to show in my logo and I wanted to show that I'm open minded to different ideas, hence the name "Open Minded Productions". I really like how the logo turned out and I hope you do to.
Logo:

Making a Logo

Hey everybody

We started on our logos yesterday and we got some logos done today. I made the logo below( with the help of my teacher) yesterday. It's pretty straight forward and simple. I just took one of the two letters and set it up on the inner shapes. I had the left over white part of the inner shape used for the O. I used the basic colors: red, white, and black. It was a little difficult to do at first because I didn't really know what to do.