Around the Island Relay Race Poster

Every year for the past 25 years St.Maarten/St.Martin held the "Around the Island Relay Race" which Juniors,Teens,and Adults from all around the island participate. This purpose of this Graphic Design assignment is to create a poster promoting/ advertising this annual event. This is the poster that I designed: 

Making Adjustments to an Image

For this assignment I had to take an image of choice and make adjustments to it by adding, removing, and changing objects in the image ( somewhat like a photo hunt game). The image I chose is:

 After making all the adjustments to it, my final result looked like this:

Restoring an Old Damaged Image

For this assignment I had to choose an old damaged image that can be restored. My starting image was:

To restore the image the main tool I used is the Clone Stamp Tool. After restoring the image my final product was this:

Retouching Portraits in Photoshop

For this assignment I had to choose a portrait of a person that needs touchups. My image was: 

To do my touchups I used tools like the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tool. After doing all the necessary touchups, my final result was this:

Tutorial 2: Photoshop Watercolor Painting Effect

The second tutorial showed us how to apply a watercolor painting effect to a photo. The photo I chose was one of an autumn tree:

After choosing an image, I followed 11 easy steps to get my final product:

1. Duplicate the Background Layer Three Times
2. Turn off the Two Top Layers
3. Select "Layer 1"
4. Apply the "Cutout" Filter
5. Change the Blend Mode of "Layer 1" to "Luminosity"
6. Turn On The Layer Above "Layer 1" And Select The Layer
7. Apply The “Dry Brush” Filter
8. Change The Layer Blend Mode To “Screen”
9. Turn On The Top Layer And Select It
10. Apply The “Median” Filter
11. Change The Blend Mode Of The Top Layer To “Soft Light”

After completing these 11 steps my final product was this:

Tutorial 1: Faking Miniature Photographs with Photoshop

The first tutorial taught us how to fake miniature photographs with Photoshop. First I needed a starting image, mine was a photograph of the Big Ben:

After picking a photograph I followed 4 easy steps to get my final product:

1. Masking
2. Applying Gradient to the Mask
3. Applying the Blur Filter
4. Finish Up

After completing all the steps my final product was this:

Dr. Seuss Google Doodle

Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr.Seuss, is an American writer and author of 46 published children's books. His most famous books include Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Dr. Seuss was born on March 2, 1904 and died on September 24, 1991, he is now 109 years old. This Google doodle theme is Dr. Seuss. In this Google doodle three of his most famous characters are included: Thing 1,Thing 2, and the Cat in the hat.