07/20/08- Added an html only mirror of the site without Flash for iPhone compatibility. Really fucking stupid how iPhone doesn't support Flash. Link's located on bottom right.

-edit- Got a new set of stock photos. Played around with vector brushes. Still need to figure out how to rotate brushes for spotting. Got familiar with feathering. Finally used to spamming layers for each addition. Next is layer masking. Result.

-edit 2- Finished doorway pic. Learned some blending techniques for image mapping. Played around with some more feather cropping and brush rotation. Pic was a pain in the ass to make. Firegirl with the ripple and the flower took about 7 layers to compose. Result.

 

07/19/08- Had more time to clean up the site. New template, fairly clean interface.

Finally found out how to set Photoshop to use pressure settings from the digitizer. The Wacom on this tablet has 255 pressure settings (which I believe is on the low end), but it's good enough for an amateur. Played around with wet and dry media brushes, and texture brushes. Used wet media brush with scattering and opacity based on pen pressure to make the quick sketch here. Nothing fancy (only 5 layers), but I'm a noob at this anyway. Just got assigned to figure out how to setup emailing from domains from my dad, so that's priority for the moment.

07/18/08- Got the domain registered, and started work on the website. First attempt at layered work in Photoshop as homepage.

A bit of backstory: A few weeks ago, I began work on a webpage for my parents after obtaining a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver. Without any prior knowledge of html or Dreamweaver, it took several weeks of revisions to get a decent design working for the webpage. There were in total three versions of the site made. Details of the process are listed on the gallery page.

After finishing the website, I got Adobe CS3 Master Collection and started playing around with the rest of the stuff. I don't think I'd be able to learn Flash in a week, considering Fagtionscript is an actual programming language, so I'm going to be doing that on and off. Primary focus now is Photoshop. Never had the opportunity to play around with the more complex techniques, so now's a good time to start. Before now, the most I'd done with it was putting in text, and modifying brightness/contrast for electrophoresis gel photos in a lab.