City Hall on a stormy day
Digital manipulation based on a photo I took of Milwaukee’s City Hall in Sept. 2009.
Posts Tagged ‘digital art’
Milwaukee City Hall
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Vignetting/Depth of Field with Smart Objects CS4/CS5
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Here’s my original image:
Now, assume for a moment I wanted to focus attention strictly on the tower, up around the clock, to show off some of the great architectural detail on the Milwaukee City Hall. One way to do this is to blur out the rest of the picture (called a “depth of field” effect). The masking adjustment and edge refining controls that were added in CS4 make this damn simple. (more…)
Stained Glass Spirals
Saturday, July 18th, 2009
(Done entirely with circles and the spirals font at http://www.dafont.com/spirals.font)
Keepers of Stromgarde
Thursday, August 21st, 2008This one is dear to my heart. I designed and maintain the website for my World of Warcraft guild:
It’s gone through two iterations of design now, marked mainly by the difference in the tools that were available to me for personal use. The old one was done entirely with gimp, the new after I bought my own copy of Photoshop.
Old Keepers of Stromgarde site
New Keepers of Stromgarde Site as of July 2009
Firewall
Wednesday, September 26th, 2001
Click here to see this image tiled
This one doesn’t make a very good web page background, but it’s excellent as a header/footer background or as a desktop pattern
Candle
Monday, May 5th, 1997
Original was 8-1/2×11 print in 1997 Halo Burning senior exhibit at Beloit College. Also used this image, later, in the first version of Flames Rising in 2002