Text Effects – Weekly Photoshop Challenge

For this week's Weekly Photoshop Challenge we were to create an advertisement or decorative element showcasing the text in the image. We could be as simple or complex as we wanted to be! The challenge was to become familiar with all of the fun things we can do with text in Photoshop. We were also asked to show how we completed our challenge.

Here is my first design using a Light Burst Effect. To see a video of how I did this effect, please check out my Photoshop Tutorial – Light Burst Effect at my YouTube account.

Here is my second design using a shadow effect on the text. To see a video of how I did this effect, please check it out my Photoshop Tutorial – Text Shadow Effect at my YouTube account.

Don't forget to check out all of the other wonderful examples at the Weekly Photoshop Challenge blog.

"For Dummies" Bookcover – Weekly Photoshop Challenge

For this week's Weekly Photoshop Challenge, we were to create a "For Dummies" bookcover of our choice. The bookcover could be as funny, serious, or as bizarre as we wished. I chose to do a more serious topic using a photo I took of an antique train we saw when we visited Ohio a few years ago. Everything was drawn in Photoshop (including the little "For Dummies" conductor), except for the "For Dummies" title text which I photoshopped out of a scanned Dummies book I have on my shelf.

Comical Characters – Weekly Photoshop Challenge

For this week's Weekly Photoshop Challenge, we were to take an existing photo and create a comical character. I decided to take a recent silly photo of my daughter, and make it even more silly!

Here she is before I made her even more silly:

Spherical Design – Weekly Photoshop Challenge

This week's Weekly Photoshop Challenge was to create an original design into a sphere of our choice. We could create a glass orb, a snowglobe, a bubble...whatever we wished! However, the end result MUST have looked like a 3D sphere! I'm posting at the last minute because I've been a bit under the weather....grrrr!

Here is my submission!