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Member Name: Jim Younkin
Where
can visitors go to see more of your work online?:
http://www.geocities.com/younkin3
Interest/Experience with graphics software: Student
Operating System: Mac OS
This was partly a fluke. I was taking night scene pictures with
my digital camera and I got a really neat shot that had car
and street light streaking. I used this section of the photo
for the image. In Photoshop 5.5 I made a new layer than used
gaussian blur. I used text and used a small leading and negative
tracking to scrunch the words up. I then made a selection from
the type layer and switched to the blurred layer and cleared
it. I thought it turned out cool. I keep tons of old digital
photos — almost all I have ever taken — and save them.
You never know when inspiration will strike. (and hey, they
are royalty free, no lawsuits!)
What
graphics software do you use on a regular basis?
Photoshop 5.5, Image Ready 2.0, Freehand 9, Graphic Converter
What
was the first graphics program you learned?
Photoshop 5.5
What
is your all-time favorite graphics program and why?
Photoshop 5.5 simply because you can do so much with the program.
It is the only program where I can express complete creativity.
I know what it can do. If I can think it, I can make it on Photoshop.
Plus it is what got me interested on design work in the first
place. There is no other like it.
How
long have you been working with graphics software?
2 years
How
do you use graphics software in your day-to-day activities?
Creating original art with photos and manipulation. Creating
web graphics. Editing photos for print and eBay. Correcting
and sprucing up photos from my digital camera.
What
is your best graphics tip or piece of advice?
Play, play, play!!!!! Photoshop is so much fun! The absolute
best way to learn it is to play around and learn your own way
to do things. There isn't a day goes by that I don't learn something
new in Photoshop.
Where
do you get your inspiration?
I love art history. I like to study what other types of artists
are doing and have done. I also like to pay attention to any
really neat graphics in ads or on the internet and try to figure
out how they did it (or how they could have done it better).
This was a more complex composition. The base image with streaks
is a digital photo I took while spinning the camera around on
it's hand cord while the timer took the picture. The main man's
face is a pic of me I took with macro at close range. The other
two main images of females are some friends I had taken pictures
of. This is entitles "Jim Dreams of a Wife" I have found I am
doing some interesting introspective work lately, anyway. All
these different layers were worked using opacity, levels and
contrast until I thought they gave a good balance. There is
one layer, sort of an oval over my left eye that is a copy of
my eye enlarged and set to color burn, it gave a neat dark orange
burned outline. Sometimes I feel like Jackson Pollock, just
letting the piece flow as I add elements and play with settings.
That is how I create some of my best pieces, no rules so to
speak, just letting it flow.
This was a fun one to do. I watched a lightning storm with my
digital camera setting my timer and hoping I could catch one.
I tried about 30 times but I did get one. This composition was
fairly simple. I used stamp to remove an ugly street light and
than added some text with a drop shadow, changed the color of
the drop shadow then made the drop shadow its own layer and
turned off the text so you are seeing the drop shadow. I like
the color which is the original color of my photo, no manipulation.
This was again a photo made by spinning my digital at night
with a timer and the flash going off. I thought it had great
motion. I added text, rendered it and transformed it to make
it crooked. I then made a duplicate layer (which I use ALL the
time) and motion blurred the text copy. I then set the opacity
of the original text to 63%. The overall effect is spinning
motion.
This photo started out as a picture of someone at their baptism.
They and the person doing the baptism were dressed in white,
This gave me the idea to create a sort of otherworld-ish photo
of spiritual beings in their white clothes. It was tough to
get this one just right. It has about 4 different layers of
various levels of gausian blur. Also the technique of making
a layer then erasing only certain layers to reveal a layer beneath
was used. Also most layers have different degrees of opacity
to them. Levels was used to punch up some of the blurred layers.
I think it turned out perfect.
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