Adobe Illustrator: Tracing with the PEN Tool

Hello everyone,

I traced an image of a Scottish Terrier and placed that image on a T-Shirt.  Used the "Pen Tool" to trace out the dog and copied it and added a text box for "Scotty Tartan Mills".  Please enjoy.

I created this before putting on the T-shirt.

Adobe Illustrator: Vertical-View Diamond Trace

Hello, 

I took this diamond and traced it and duplicated it.  I used gradients to give it a "diamond look" and added some "stars" to give it some light shine areas.  Once that was created I chose a background of New York City and pasted my diamond onto the background and gave it a somewhat transparent look; which is the second image below.  Then I created a "stamp" with the second image.  Please enjoy!!

Half diamond for which I used to create a full diamond by tracing and duplicating it.  

Poster

Stamp

Adobe Illustrator: Diamond Solitaire Necklace

Hello Everyone,

I created a diamond necklace using the Polar Grid.  Used gradient to give the effect of light reflecting and used the star tool for the three bright spots.

Here is a variation of the above image. Emerald and diamond ring.  Pretty Cool!!!

Illustrator: Shamrocks Nd Pepper Mill

Good Afternoon,

I created a shamrock and  made a St. Patrick's Day card.  I used the "heart" template and reduced the size of the image and copied two more and made the stem of the shamrock from two circles and a square.  I used a gradient and this is the results of that creation.

I had a choice whether or not to make a suit of cards or a pepper mill.  I chose to make a pepper mill using circles, squares, and ovals with many different colors and this is the end result:

At first, I thought it would be difficult to create, but I found that it wasn't.  

Photoshop: Book Cover-Filter and Shape Tools

Howdy,

I created a book cover for a hypothetical novel.  I used layers, mask layers, and selection tools to blend a lake house and the map of Maine onto a new white background.  I then created a new layer for the book cover and added text boxes with different fonts to create the end results below.

Photoshop: Restoring Old Documents and Actions

Hi,

I just finished with an old marriage certificate that I found.  I used many actions to get the end results.  I had to lighten up the image with desaturation, then sharpened up the image, then added a white background layer and used an eraser to try to erase the dark areas.  Then I transformed the image using a Sepia Filter, added a wood frame.

Original:

Finished image.  I moved the hue up a little to give it a "green" effect instead of the "copper" effect of sepia.

Photoshop: Layer Masks

Hello,

I created a Moroccan Menu, using layers.  I used a patch tool to clean up the images that were used and then added those images as layers.  I also used a "black mask layer" to insert another image of a city in Morocco.  Also used 3 text boxes with different fonts to give it the appearance below.   With all the images there are a total of 3 images combined in this current image: