Coming soon..

I have created 3 new piano pieces I would like to share. I'm going to try to record them on an electric piano sometime soon and post them here.
 A quick thanks to my aunt and my little sister, who said they liked my compositions.

FX Photo Studio PRO

I got a new application and wanted to try it out. So I opened an image and slapped a couple effects on it, this is how it turned out:

I find the program pretty fun to use, it has a billion effects you can play with, nice for the casual photo-manipulator.

TypeFace

Following this abduzeedo tutorial, I made these type portraits. It's not easy to get a good text effect. I tried twice and came out with these...

And they're kinda cool but not that great. Oh well.


Just for fun...

Dark Mask

This tutorial at abduzeedo was hard to follow, and as a Photoshop novice I had to wing it most of the way, but I turned out a pretty cool picture. (I think, anyway.)

It was frustrating but I'm glad I ended up with something I (and the subject matter) like.

kitsune

I had fun once again with the simple tip shown a couple posts ago...

Euphoria Dreams

This is a picture of my kitten (who is now a very fluffy cat). I took apart 3 elements in the picture through careful but not that meticulous erasing (mostly using the selection tool, but goodness knows that's not perfect). I then added a glow to each element. The glow is harder to see on a plain white background, but it is simple and sweet.

Then I added a background of dreamy swirly lines. 

Which do you like better?

piano impromptu (from April) (click me)

I play around like this all the time, but this is the only time I've recorded it. It's also one of the few times I seemed to remember my central theme (melody). Mostly.

Cool effect!

To really easily create a really cool effect in Photoshop, try this Planet Photoshop Tip.

Basically:
"Duplicate a layer with a subject by press- ing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Desaturate the new layer (Command-shift U), then adjust the Levels dialog (Command-L [PC: Ctrl-L]) to create a strong contrast. Now, apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) to the new layer and set its blend mode to Overlay (Shift-Alt O)..."


This:

Turnout as this:


That is all I did to the image!

Butterfly

Created in Illustrator.