Ms. Vance Online Art Portfolio

Team project for class that I designed with Adobe Photoshop CS6. Requirements where to design a Web Banner Projects requirements of web banner is 300 x 300 pixels and no bigger than 200 KB. This web banner is an advertisement for Baderman Island (a fictitious resort), We had to pick our theme and marketing target for both the banner and poster below. Poster Project requirements for poster is 11” x 14” Both banner and poster was designed by me, not bad for just a start but will be taking off with cool and new designs as I practice.

These colorful swirl art were done by an app called Picsart. Normally I have done some things from Picsart before, but these are so creative and cute that I cannot keep them to myself and I want to ad them to my digital art gallery! Enjoy!  I cannot promise that I will stop making these, because I recently became hooked on the  painting the colors and adding the swirl effects!

The original photo: taken from my vacation last month. Adjustment Layer used is Posterize Level 4 I chose the Posterize adjustment layer because I thought it would look great as a poster with a cartoon effect. This made it not so life-like and made it look like cartoonish in a similar way. The instructions of the assignment stated to choose a layer style but when I did that there were not too many quality changes to be made to the photo. There were few but not much to enjoy the photo or it took away the bright color of the photo, which I did not want to do. So, since we are learning filters in chapter lesson 11, I decided to add the Ripple effect to the photo, which gave the photo the look that it was a painting. I chose this effect because it was great experience to show and to give it a “painting” look from a brush. The original photo could not be improved anymore because I thought the bright colors where great! Although, the ...