Multimedia+WOW+projects

=**Expectations for Multimedia**.=


 * For each project WOW project you will need to follow this format which consists of four items**.
 * Your name
 * Website of the project.
 * The project itself saved as a jpg under 1MB.
 * Reflection on what you learned by completing this project and would you recommend to a friend.

Separate your entry by inserting a HORIZONTAL RULE and you may change to a different color of text!

Kevin Duhrkopf [|HTC TOUR Phone and Ad]

This project was very unique and fairly easy. It involved to many blending options to be considered really difficult. It did involve cool techniques and informed me of what different blending options do to the image. The project was very detailed based. It used the shape tools mostly to create everything. The pen tool was used to create Buttons and strokes. The ad overall is awesome. I like the reflections and the lighting it used. The clouds and noise in the background add a good technique also. Overall this project was fun but not very much of a challenge.I would recommend this project to people that have a good understanding of what to do and want to be able to explore the possibilities of Photoshop.

Kevin Duhrkopf [|3D Baseball Cap]

WOW! I never knew you could create such realistic items in photoshop. I started from scratch. I was amazed what the pen tool could do. I taught myself the pen tool in this project. Which wasn't fun. It was very time consuming to get the lines to look realistic and correct. The stiching on the bill was the hardest part to get all three to look alike. This project proved that I actually did learn something and was able to put all my skills in Photoshop together.Proxy-Connection: keep-alive%2Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ache-Control: max-age=0 0Overall the project was very challenging and time consuming. I would recommend this to people looking for a challenge. I wouldn't recommend it to people who can't take not getting things right the first time. If you try this project Good Luck!

DLoew [|MP3 Player] This is my MP3 player I created from scratch. The process was fairly simple. It required various shape tools, such as the rectangular marquee tool. I thought I did well at making the MP3 player look real. I altered my project slightly from the original tutorial. I wanted to find a way to incorporate Taylor Lawtner shirtless into my project. I think he is good looking. As I made this project, my favorite part was making the button on the right. I liked the texture on them. The speaker was the hardest part. I had to make my own pattern. It took an entire class period just for that portion. Overall, I think I did a great job. Ms. Brown is a great teacher :)

DLoew [|camera]

My name is Devan. It rhymes with kevin, but that is irrelevant to this amazing project. This camera took me a full week of class to finish. The base was fairly easy. I like the textured look to it. It adds a more realistic look. The lens is what took me forever to finish. I had a bunch of layers of circles and gradients. This part was SOOO redundant. I got kind of bored. I altered this project also. I was suppose to have a wood gradient on the left hand side, but it did not look nearly as sleek. It was worth it in the end. I really like the looks of it. I would like to take this time to thank Ms. Brown for sharing her amazing knowledge of photoshop with me. I feel complete.

Courtney Schroeder [|Avatar]

Doing this wow project was really a ton of fun. I enjoyed working in photoshop on one project for a couple days. Changing the girls face using liquify was cool though. Thats the only part that was cool. Making her skin like a snake was also quite entertaining! Doing this project showed me that I can do things on my own. But I would just rather have Ms. Brown's help. I just like doing projects that make Ms. Brown happy. If Ms. Brown is happy I'm happy. If Ms. Brown thinks it's wow then it is wow. Though for this project I didn't get the "WOW" like Kevin did, I still think she like my project but didn't want to show it! :) I know that Kevin's projects are cooler. I still think this tested my abilities in this class. P.S. I know Ms. Brown likes me better than Devan Loew.

Courtney Schroeder [|USB Pen] I thought this projects was really cool. First of all i have never seen a pen with a USB before, and second i have never made a pen in photoshop before. It wasn't to difficult though it turned out good. I really like my other wow project better but i couldn't find its website. It was a cool picture with Ronlad McDonald and had cool effects, but this was the next coolest. Overall the project was decent though i still dont think ms brown said wow. But i can't always make everyone happy:)

Holly Onken [|LCD TV Screen]



It's so cool how real this TV looks. It looks like it really does belong on that table. This TV wasn't to difficult to make. I made the entire thing following the directions. The steps were easy to follow and the author was very clear on his directions. This project was pretty lengthy. My favorite part was making the base of the TV. The thing I used most was all different types of gradients. Which having many different gradients is why this project looks so realistic. There is many other projects similar to this project if you like the outcome. This project is my least favorite out of my two wow projects.

Holly Onken [|Bulletin Board Part 1] [|Bulletin Board Part 2]



I really really enjoyed this project a lot! It was my favorite project this whole semester. I spent many days on this project. I made the entire thing from scratch. I love the colors of all the different pins. I choose these colors because they are fun and bright. I love how I was able to add some of my own pictures into this project. I love doing projects when I can add some of myself into it. This project allowed for me to do that. My favorite part to create was the pins. I loved placing them randomly through out the board. I wish I owned this bulletin board.

Jared Kock

[|Graffiti]Door



This project was completely from scratch with the help of only two tutorials; the one for the door and the one for the graffiti. This project really started as me being bored one day at home, and then I turned it into my WOW! project for class. I used the Apple Theme, as you can see, and ran with it. The Apple Store, the iPods and pads, the Graffiti on the wall, and the iPod sillouette from the commercials. This project was very fun because there were endless possibilities of what to do. I found a site that was top 45 Apple Projects which was very big help when doing this project.

Jared Kock

Blink 182 Splatter Project



This project was also pretty fun. It took a lot longer than what the tutorial said. It said 30 minutes; that was definitely a lie because it took like 3 days. It was one of the best things that i did. The project only said to do the words, but I added the Blink 182 logo and added some color to it, rather that just the regular black. This project also took a lot of joining layers together to put color on one another. The lines you had to blur then you made a layer onto the top of it and then you made lots of pretty colors and put them together to get nice, colorful, and blurry lines. You also had to download some splatter brushes to use as an eraser to get the effect on the text.

Kenzi Balukoff [|80's style Design] 80's Style Design

Creating this wow project consisted of many steps. This project overall didn't take as long as I thought it would, and in the end, as you can see, turns out very unique and grabs your attention. The tutorial had different words, therefore I incorporated my own words to it. This project dealt with the shape tools, the pen tool, and several different effects with the blending options. To make this project work, it is important to know where your layers are, and to pay close attention to the directions. The only thing the tutorial provides you with is the texture from a sandpaper type of thing to give the words and shapes a nice looking texture. Overall, I had a blast creating this 80's style design, and recommend this to anyone who is patient and likes to create unique effects.

Kenzi Balukoff [|Old Fashioned Tv] Old Fashioned Tv

This old fashioned tv was my first wow project. This project took me a few days because of all the different parts to it. The tv looks very realistic and looks very sharp. It was a great project for learning different effects for adding gradients and adding blending options. You can also use different colors for the overall tv as long as it looks like a tv. Overall, I would recommend this project because even though it takes time, it turns out very realistic in the end.

Abigail Frank

Shiny Folder Icon

This is my realistic Psd Folder. It was a really fun project to work on! I was a little nervous to use the pen tool but I soon was adapted to it. I love how realistic most of this looks. The one part that seemed difficult was the top of the folder I had to add, it took a lot of time, and patience, that I didn't really have. I suggest this to anyone, I'm not that great at the detailing in photoshop, but overall it wasn't too difficult. If you like the pen tool, you would be good with this project.

Cara Reilly [|headphones] This was my favorite project. I created everything from scratch. The best part about this project was putting it all together at the end. My least favorite part was getting all the gradients to match up. I would reccommend this project to anyone that wants a challege. I had to use the pen tool a couple times. Mainly this project consisted of gradients and using the shape tool. This project took me a week to do it study halls and multimedia classes. I really liked this project because it was so realistic.

Cara Reilly [|Guitar]

This was my second wow project. I really like this one also. The hardest part was using the warp tool. I had to create the base from a circle and shaping it with the warp tool. I created the neck of the guitar by making a rectangle and transforming it into the right shape. I added the strings by using the line tool. My favorite part was using the gradients. I put the whole guitar on a wood floor and made it look like it was leaning against a red wall. I also added a shadow.

Text Project Abigail Frank

This would have to be my my favorite project out of my two WOW projects:) I used the brush tools a lot, the worst to deal with would have to be the cloud brush because it kept turning out weird. Overall, I suggest this to you, if you have patience and love a challenge. This was a project where it got a little frustrating but because I was working on my name, it kept me interested. I enjoyed this class so much because Ms. Brown was so nice and should miss me in her class:)

Katie Langbein- Camera

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/icon-design/creating-a-set-of-digital-painting-icons-part-2-camera-icon/

This was my camera made from scratch. With this camera you had to make many different layers, because you had to make so many different circles. Another thing that made this camera look so realistic was all the dodge tools, and burn tools. This was my first project where I really actually used the pin tool. Once I got the hang of it, I felt I did a great job at doing it. I received a 18/20, Im not sure why i missed 2 points if it was a wow project you had to do by yourself, and you could twick whatever you wanted to. Oh well.. But over all this was my favorite project of the year.

Jusitn Young This project was fun because the tutorial i had only showed me how to make the little radio. The rest was up to me.

Adam Brower - UFO http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-social-media-ufo-icon/

I chose this project because first off, I am a facebook addict, and this gave me a way to make some thing that actually deals with facebook. I had a hard time choosing projects, but when I saw this one, I knew it would be fun, but yet a challenge at the exact same time. I changed up the project from the original just a little bit, but being unique and creative is my key! I used several gradients, bubbles, paint tools, and many different circle shape tools to create this image. I would suggest this one to anyone who enjoys making really neat things on photoshop, and you can use the actual tutorial to make something even more creative than this.

ORANGE SLICE http://www.psdgraphics.com/icons/fruit-illustrations-lemon-and-orange-icons/ Hello again sunshines! This is my second wow project, which honestly, was a last minute project because I couldn't find anything that suited my interests. Making this project, I used the circle shape tool, several filter effects, and the nudge tool a lot! I wouldnt suggest this project to many people because it's pretty boring and the final product doesn't turn out very well (the tutorial isn't the best one). You could also bring out your creative side and make this into a lemon or a lime!

Katie Langbein- Second WOW http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/icon-design/create-a-magnifying-glass-icon-in-photoshop-cs4/



This was my second wow project. I would have chosen a harder wow, but was a big issues. With this project you once again made a bunch of different circles. Another thing you did was use a bunch of graidents. I would recommened this project to people who are just starting out but yet need a little bit of a challenge. Well this year was a good year, thanks brown for everything you have done! I am sorry I didn't capatlize your first name but I am too lazy to go back and change it! Bye Brown! Have a Great Summer