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.