tutorial

This is my final project for DIM2 this semester. At the first time, i was going to make a tutorial about how to write a message inside an egg. However, i could not find the necessary materials for this experiment. Lastly, i changed it into 7steps to tie a tie.

posters for our group's marketing plan

These are the fosters that i made for our's group marketing plan. We wrote the marketing plan for Terra Verde Company, which is a travel company. Making the poster for this company is one part of the marketing plan.
Which one do you prefer?

Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie

When i went to "bbc.com" to read some news, i saw that the BBC Sport's did make marketing campaign and titles for Olympic Games 2008 based upon the traditional Chinese folklore 'Journey to the West'. Then I went to "youtube" and download this video. Although Olympic 2008 was over, I'd like you guys to take a look at this video above and see how creative the producers are! (Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarnm)

pagoda pics

These are the pictures that i took when i went to a small pagoda in my hometown. This pagoda was built more than 100 years ago to worship Le Dai Hanh King, one of the most famous kings of Vietnamese history.

My favourite ads of BMW

BMW is my favorite brand. This company produces not only very high quality but also luxurious appearance cars. Besides that, BWM has paid a lot of money for their advertising campaigns. I tried to search for many ads of them on "youtube" and i uploaded two of my most favorite ones in this blog. Hope you guys enjoy them and fall in love with BMW like me :p

My pics

I created these pictures when i started using photoshop. It's such a long time ago. Because this week is a busy week with a lot of assignments to do, i just posted my old work in this blog. I think my skills in Photoshop have improved, but those pictures above are not so bad, aren't they?

My portfolio

This is my portfolio that i created this semester. Actually, i did put a lot of effort on it and i am very happy to see my work done. There is no sound in my portfolio because i did not attach the sound into the file itself but i put it in the same folder of the fla file, it's similar when we use dynamic text.

Photograph

Because I'm busy with my portfolio this week, so I decide to post some pics from my travel in this entry. Most of them are from the North of Vietnam, some are from the Middle. Enjoys

My portforlio's layout

This is the layout of my portfolio assignment this semester. I had tried some animation characters such as Doreamon as well as a draft of ghost. Then, i wanted to keep my portfolio simply, so i used my own picture which were taken in last semester. Many people think that the colors of this layout are boring. Personally, i consider that black and white are "everlasting". Admittedly, they are the symbol of elegance and simplicity.

Strange Pictures

They are just normal pictures but they looks so great and strange when the photographer changes the view of the camera. Have a look at these photo. You will see the creativity in each photo.

I dont know how the camera is not broken aftet shooting this photo ;))

This one, I think the photographer hold a glass and shoot this picture. Interesting??

(Source: Daily Yeh)

SuShi Art

Art can be find everywhere in our life, from a picture, from clothes, from a product and even from food. A good cook not only makes delicious food but also must know how to attract their customer by designing the interface of their food. I think that everyone all know about Sushi, a very well-know food of Japan and it can also be seen as a Japanese culture. I've found some really amazing and ... delicious Sushi pictures. Here they are, enjoy:
















(Credit to: "Daily Yeh")

Poster

This is my poster for our assignment. It's combined by three different photos. At the first time, my idea is about a young tiger looking at a women who wear a tiger coat and thinking "Is she my mother?", but I can find any young tiger that have a surprised face as I wish. So that, I changed my idea to another tiger which is so angry when seeing a girl wearing a tiger coat. And this is my work.

Flash Animation

This is the flash that we all created in class. However, I change some details in order to make it more fun. Enjoy guys!!!!

layout

Black and white are my favorite colors. Therefore, i designed this layout in these two colors only. However, it still look very cool, right? Remember what our teacher said, "just keep it simple"!!!

I think this picture has something like Japanese style 'cause i divided the original picture into three parts and those three long pics are quite similar to the Japanese traditional pictures.

The body text in my work is not dull, plz click on the image and see ^^

Microsoft surface

In our presentation of Interface design for touchscreen, I have mentioned about Microsoft Surface with a short video clip showing how this technology work. In this entry, I will show you the original video as follows.

(From Popular Mechanic.com)

Here are some advantages of Microsoft surface:

• direct interaction
• multi-touch contact
• a multi-user experience
• and object recognition

Finally, I think this is what we care most: "Prices will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit"

Picture Collage Maker

There is an easy way in making an image with frame without Photoshop or other complicated program skill, known as "Picture Collage Maker"

Some functions of this program:

• Create Collage - Allows you to create a mixed–image collage page by compiling various pictures of any size; then you can overlay, arrange, adjust and configure the images to match your taste.
• Photo Collage Wizard - Offers a way to create a photo collage automatically, with selected photos and a single click of a button.
• Frames and Boarders - Included. A large number of borders and frames are available in the collage program.
• Clip Art - Included. A large number of cliparts are available in the collage program.
• Photo Masks - Included. A large number of masks are available in the collage program.
• And more...

You can download this application here. However, you have to register in order to use the whole functions of this program.

Source: Megasharesvn.com

Making Frame

It is easy, just need to follow those steps:

Step 1: Duplicate layer (ctrl+ J)

Step 2: Use Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to draw a square that coves picture we want to put in frame.

Step 3: Select -> Inverse (Shift + Ctrl + I) to the other side

Step 4 Edit in quick Mask Mode (Q)

Step 5: Filter -> Distort -> Ripper

Step 6: Edit in quick Mask Mode (Q)

Step 7: Press Delete to delete that selection

Step 8: Select -> Inverse (Shift + Ctrl + I) to the picture we want to put in frame

Step 9: Duplicate layer (ctrl+ J)

Step 10: Play with blending option to achieve a happy frame.

Step 11: Ctrl + Drag that layer to the other background where you want to put this picture with frame.

Making rain

I will show you how to create it right now

Step 1: duplicate layer (Ctrl +J)

Step 2: Adjustment lightness for picture in or other to create a dark sky which is going to rain by using Level

Step 3: create a new layer

Step 4: Fill background with 50% gray

Step 5: Filter -> Noise -> Add noise

Choose Monochromatic and Gaussian

Maximum amount (400%)

Step 6: Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur

Radius: 0.5 pixels

Step 7: Modify level

Channel RGB

Input level: 230 / 1.13 / 255

Output level: 0 / 255

Step 8: Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur

Choose appropriate angel of the rain for your picture

Distance about 20 pixels

Step 9: Modify level to make the rain clearer

Step 10: Blending 2 layers with Screen Mode

Have Fun!!!

Turning digital image into drawing picture

Follow those steps if you want a picture like that

• Step 1: Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J)
• Step 2: Change image into grayscale image by pressing Ctr +Shift + U or Image -> Adjustment -> Desaturate
• Step 3: Duplicate layer (Ctrl+J)
• Step 4: Ctrl + I or Image -> Adjustment -> Invert
• Step 5: Change layer 1 to Color Dodge mode or Linear Dodge mode, this will change your image into white color
• Step 6: Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur -> chose the appropriate Radius pixel for your image
• Step 7: Convert all layers into one by pressing Ctrl + Shift + E, then duplicate layer again (Ctrl+J)
• Step 8: In order to make your picture clearer, blending layers to Multiply mode and find the approximate opacity for your image.

Have Fun, guys

Making Fog

Original

Photoshop

Here I will show you how to create fog just by one simple tool of Photoshop: Gradient Tool
Take a look at the original photo, it is easy to see that there are 2 men sitting not in the right places. Therefore, I use Crop Tool to perfect that picture with the 800x600px
In the next step, I choose Gradient tool like this one:













Drag mouse from the top to the middle of the photo, you will see the result
Enjoys

Playing with Photoshop

This image is created from 3 different images

Picture of a baby




Background picture: I already had this one for a long time, so I do not know where its source is




This picture I took from Deviantart

As you can see, the baby image has a bad quality which is dark, noise, awful... Therefore, I firstly work with this image.

I began with reducing the noise for the baby image by using Gaussian Blur after choosing face area by Quick Selection Tool. Then, I copied the baby to the background image by Move Tool

In response to the background image, the first thing I did is to resize that image into 800x 600 px and then erasered the Ali's dream logo by using Clone Stamp Tool

After placing the baby in the bottom right of the background image, I played with Color Balance, Hue/Saturation Curve and Level to achieve a perfect skin for the baby. However, because the original image is too dark, it so left a black area on the baby's head. I solved this by wearing a hat for that baby (the hat taken from the third image)

Finally, I duplicated the baby two times, placed them in those position, chose Blending Screen Mode and reduced opacity to 50%.

Actually, I am not happy with this result. As you can see, in the space between 2 babies, there is a stuff created by 2 arms of babies. Anyone knows how to solve this problem, I do not like using Brush, SO PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME TO USE BRUSH!!!!

PS: I lkie to use Gradient Tool to fix that problem, but sometime, it does not work as I wish, anyone knows how to perfect Gradient Tool, help help plz

Anyways, Enjoys this baby again, my friends.