Digital Creativity Lesson 6

We did a recap of the Pen Tool from last lesson in lesson 6. We drew a heart using the tool and manipulated the anchor points to create lovely curves and make it more heart-like. We also learned about paths and how it’s possible to fill a path with colour to finish your image, amongst other things. We also used the Freeform Pen Tool to decorate our names, which we’d written down. We smoothed out any edges using the Convert Point Tool and deleted any unnecessary anchor points using the Delete Anchor Point tool, then converted our names into something more pretty by using brush strokes to add colour and texture. Here’s my name:

For the last part of the lesson, we  worked with a scanned image to make it more colourful and add in stuff. We cropped the picture to keep only the part we wanted and created layers for the leaves, bark and grass. We added texture using the Texturiser and Burn Tool, and made a sky using the Gradient tool. Next week we’re finally going to be able to do our own names using the images from our Me Myself & I assignment! The picture I’ve chosen to edit of my own name is below, under my attempt at editing the scanned image.

May 4, 2009. Tags: digital creativity, freeform pen, me myself and i, names. Uncategorized.