Photoshop Pizza Party

For project 2, we had to create a pizza with given toppings to stack on top as layers. For the background, I used a pattern as a tablecloth, I gave it a red color overlay. For the sauce, I used a brush without full opacity. I wanted to make feta cheese on my pizza so I tried to find a white brush with the grainy feta look. My next layer was mushrooms, that i lowered the opacity and evenly rotated. I placed the bacon in the center, over the spinach layer, making sure the layers on top wouldn't cover it. For the green peppers, I wanted to change them to banana peppers, so I used a yellow color overlay and made the center one less opaque so the bacon could be shown. The olives also had a hue effect. I cut out one sausage from the photo and copied it to make multiple sausage layers. I gave those sausages a drop shadow for a bold effect. I think my pizza was very colorful and crazy. I outlined the crust with pepperoni and made them small for a polka-dot effect.

First PhotoShop Project

...Inspirational quote...

For our first project, we were to create an inspirational quote with a background. It seemed like a simple project...but as an artist, I was overwhelmed with the possibilities and new tools I had on photoshop. First, I used played with filters in the background. I sharpened it a bit but didn't love the effect of the other filters. It ruined the concept of the background. I added a rectangle shape for the next layer and minimized the opacity. I used a filter on that layer to change the color of the rectangle. I've had the metaphor, your a sky full of stars stuck in my head, so I decided to use that as my quote. It went with the background. I used the eyedropper tool to match the words with colors in the sky. I also used a drop shadow on the outside of the words "your a sky full of" and an inside shadow of stars. I also minimized the opacity of the text. I used different fonts but next time I will download fonts offline because I didn't love the options I had on photoshop so far.