New Adventure is an illustration that hopefully inspires a sense of exactly that, seeking out a new adventure or challenge. My latest challenge, well creating this illustration of course as this stuff is a lot of work. And my new challenge, continuing to create more illustrations. In all seriousness though, hopefully you will always look forward to the next new adventure.

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Tunnel Warp showcases changes in perspective, color, light, and shadow to offer a unique visual presence. Layer blending modes, level adjustments, the warp tool and filters were used to create the desired visual presence.

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A Night at Sea is an original composition created completely in Photoshop CS3, again as a project for one of my classes this term. This work showcases a combination of layer blending modes, gradients, custom brushes, and filters to achieve the final result as shown here.

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This original composition was created completely in Photoshop CS3 as a creative exercise to familiarize myself with some of the new features. In using some previous compositions as elements in the design, my intent was to showcase these previous works in a unique way. Additionally, this was also submitted as a creative composition for one of my classes this term. Overall time spent on this project was around 10 – 12 hours, but this factors in everything from conceptualizing to completion of the finalized work.

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I created a couple of makeshift HDR images in Photoshop to test out some concepts I had come across for simply using a single JPEG image as the source for the compositions.

Overall, I think the results I have come up with here are decent though the source images were very limiting as to their color levels and overall quality. Not true HDR images, but something with a bit more color range as well as stronger contrast, as was the goal here and done just for fun!

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