Merry Christmas 2012

Simply wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas season from T1OT.

Fishing Style

Saw something similar to this on someone's Facebook profile and decided I wanted to try and recreate it. This is my version of the ichthus fish with a fisheye lens style distortion that I added after I finished the lighting. :) 

Landslide

Sometimes life itself can feel like one uncontrolled landslide after another. In times like that I gain peace from the fact that at least that is constant. The downward flow of time taking away the frozen waters that have formed around our hearts and minds may just one day reveal we are a living mountain again ready to be moved by the spirit buried deep beneath our snow covered hills.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there, especially mine :)...

SA-TUR-DAY Night

This photos represents the place that Saturday holds in our weekly lives. a day of partying and also the worn out end of a week that usually needs some replacing. Hope you're having a great Saturday and that your week ahead is filled with great newness. 

High Strung Guitar

Just trying out using the puppet warp function in Adobe while putting together a logo for my guitar interest group. The string I created by multiplying hundreds of little oval shapes and merging them together while the rest of the textures were from photos I took around the house. The only piece that is not originally mine is the texture paper that I used to fake the label behind the strings. That was a photo I snagged from someone as an old paper texture that had a french title of a history book on it. Oh yeah, the pick is also a stock photo that I changed the color and texture of before using. 

Batch of Cookies

I wish I had learned about this three weeks ago before I went through and did all the photo cropping for the office photos. There were some aspects of that work that would not have been conducive to this but then again some aspects of that work that might have benefited. adding a border for example to a 450x150 pixel picture was not something I wanted to do for all those items. Next up learning to batch apply these actions in Photoshop.

How to Create Actions in Photoshop from Yanik Chauvin on Vimeo.

A Okay Logo Sticker - Distressed

This is a little logo sticker I made for myself using a mixture of skills including the initial idea which came from this blog. The items  I used to create this particular piece did not come from the linked tutorial but the idea for the icon did come from the blog. I like the metallic feel to this particular distressed sticker.  Let's call it my art logo sticker. I'll see if I remember to include it in future pieces I do. 

Be My Valentine?

Blessed Text Effect

New Text Effect

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, 

 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Blessed are those who mourn, 

 for they will be comforted. 

Blessed are the meek, 

 for they will inherit the earth. 

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, 

 for they will be filled. 

Blessed are the merciful, 

 for they will be shown mercy. 

Blessed are the pure in heart, 

 for they will see God. 

Blessed are the peacemakers, 

 for they will be called children of God. 

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, 

 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:3-12

Water Effect

Here are a couple of my latest projects. I've been enjoying learning new techniques for Photoshop and I've created a few new backgrounds. Enjoy!

Take the Big Splash!

Baptism by Fire