Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #7: A Shirt Needing Custom Alterations

When we were on our vacation a few years ago, we met this lady. It looked like she was trying to tell us something, trying to reach out to us. But she never said a word. She didn’t have a jacket on in the middle of a winter. We kind of felt sorry for her. We wanted to give her something so that she wouldn’t freeze herself to death. And we had this blue T-shirt. It was too small for this lady. Unfortunately, we didn’t bring a sewing machine with us. And our plane was leaving in an hour. So we had to hurry. In fact, we had a portable Mac with us. And we managed to fix the T-shirt with Adobe Photoshop. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #6: A Hammer in Motion

My wife asked me to fix the wooden floor in our bedroom. So I was going to do it. Then what she said next changed my life forever. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #5: Designing a Water Drop

Here is a slender can of Coca Cola sitting on my desk. I was tempted to drink it, but it’s not cold enough. With Adobe Photoshop, I realized that I could design a water drop so as to increase other people’s temptation to drink it. Designing a water drop is not so easy because you have to distort the image inside the drop. Within 7 minutes… Voila! It’s not that difficult. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #4: A Stormy Day

It’s an image of a beautiful late afternoon. It’s quite typical for special effects designers of movie and video game industries to use a combination of Adobe Photoshop and After Effects to turn an image like this into a storm scene. In a matter of 14 minutes or so, a beautiful late afternoon turned into a stormy day with dark clouds, rain and lightnings. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Creative Design #3: Making Flames

It’s a typical scene of America’s 4th of July celebration. A number of people showed up out of the blue. It looks like they could use our Photoshop assistance. We decided to make flames so that they could cook their foods more quickly. If we don’t do anything, kids can go hungry, start crying, and the whole celebration day can turn into a disaster. Continue reading →