This is a piece I made for a contest on Worth1000. The contest was to take the original picture of this picture, and turn it into anything. So I decided to make the plan into a monster. First I made the background black and white to put the focus on the flower. Then I added human-ish characteristics and blended them on.

This is a piece I made for a surreal project my teacher assigned. I followed a tutorial on PSD Tuts, In which I took a fellow classmates face and changed the inside to his culture. This was piece was one of the more difficult things I have done. I used many masks to darken the background and everything in the piece. The blending was very difficult to.

This is a piece I made following a tutorial to make a cool poster. I decided to make a poster about my artwork. I made the background using a brick layer which then I used filter Render Clouds to turn it dark. Then I overlaid the JL's and added the effects on the front. Then I used a font from Dafont to write artwork, and aded a glow.

This is the final version of my surreal piece I made. I took the constructive criticism of my peers and changed it a little. I took the tornado out because it didn't look right and I added a blue overlay in the sky and in the window. I also added more lightning and filed the hole in the roofs' edges.

This is a piece I made for a project my teacher assigned me. The Project was to take a personal story and make a surreal piece out of it. So, I decided to make about my experience in a tornado. I used many  fitters and overlays and made the lightning using Render Difference clouds and then changed the color to blue, to give it the surrealistic look.

This is a piece I made for a class project. We had to take a scene from the new hit song Gangnam Style, and make it into something funny. So I took the main guy and put him on a unicycle. I had to take the original guy off and place this guy on. I had to re build part of the unicycle to make it look real.

Today I logged on to my computer and the piece I've been working on all week won't open, It says it is a corrupt file. It was a piece I made for a contest, more than usual, I made a limo police car. I though the piece was well done and I'm disappointed that I lost it.

This was a piece I made using only the pen tool. It was for a contest, make a cute scary animation. So I started from scratch and made the hill, then I added a filter to give it texture. I did this with all the things in the piece as well. I also used bevel and emboss and outer shadows for the animals as well as the objects. I also used gradient overlays in the sky, the ground and the moon.

This is a piece I made for a contest on Worth 1000, make a scary sign.  I took a beach scene and put the sign on it. I then put the text and sniper on the sigh. Then I put the sniper in the bushes on the top left. I wanted to many the sniper visible, so the sign made sence but also make him hidden. So I made the riffle visible, but the guy hidden.

This is my finished piece for the Dali surreal contest. From the last time I posted this, I put the things face behind the glass. Then I found a green pattern and put a overlay on it. Then I used HDR and used the Surrealistic preset to make the picture different. The I made a photo filter over the globe and set it to  the cooling filter, so the face sticks out more. Then I copied the background and flipped it then set the opacity to 30%, so it looks like a shadow.

Last year when I first came into-Intro to Computer Graphics, I knew very little about Photoshop. I started out watching tutorials and learning the basics from Mr. Runge. I then progressed on throughout the year, learning more and more.

Much of my work last year, personally, I think were decent for where my skill level was at. Of course I could go back now and a much better job on most of them, considering I know a lot more than I did. Much of the pieces I made; I could call them a little sloppy, or not well integrated enough for it to look original.

This is a piece I am in the process of making. I am almost finished, i just need to add a glass affect over the face. I made this piece for a Dali contest, which is to make a sureal piece. I painted the thing had green using the color replacement tool, then I added the facial features. After I put the head in a globe.

This is a piece I made for a contest to alter an eagle into something you have never seen before. I took an owl sitting on the branch and I put an eagles head on it, and integrated it with the Smudge Tool. I then addd the white tale and used a brush to add the feathers. Then I used the color replacement tool to change the color of his talons.

This is a piece I made following a tutorial, Add Ultra Realistic Colors to Any Gray-Scale Photo. I got the original Gray-Scale photo from the tutorial then I made a new layer and set the layer blend mode to color. I then chose blue and painted the officers shirt blue, then his face and his badge and buttons. 

This is a Piece I made for a project to use a mask. I used a vector mask to take the car out of the background. Then I used the Diamond Gradient Tool to make the cool Background.

This is a piece I made for a contest, the contest was for you to mix two movies. I chose Hulk and 2012. I then took the original 2012 movie poster and added hulk in then I changed the text. After I put green overlays over the text and added a new slogan.

This is a piece I made for a contest, mix a animal and a plant. I took a bear and took his face and put in on a acorn. Then I used the Smudge Tool to blend in the bear to the acorn to make it look more natural. Then I blurred out the background so the Bear-Corn was the focus of the piece.

This is a piece I made for a contest, celebrity santa. In this contest we had to take any famous person and make him into Santa. I chose to turn former president George W. Bush into him.

This is a piece I made for a contest, 1 Billion Hungry. The contest was to for you show your role in the starving children around the world. My role, I believe, is to show the rest of the world that kids are starving and they need to be helped. In this piece I drew over a picture using the Brush Tool then put it on a white brick wall and added a overlay. Then I drew in a famous quote from JFK.

This is a piece I made using the pen tool following a tutorial. Each piece of the boy was made on a separate layer. Also every part has drop shadows, inner shadows, and inner glows which make him look more real. I changed the blending mode, opacity, angle, distance, spread, and size for each layer. Then I created the shadow of the whole boy using the gradient tool.

Skydiving!

This is a piece i made of me doing something that i always wanted to do. I took a picture of my face in the same angle the original picture was taken in. Then i put my self in and added goggles. After I put in light coming from the bottom of the image on to me.