"Animanipulations" Photoshop Project

Check out this awesome photoshop project by one of my 7th grade students! The project was made using Pixlr (as a free Photoshop substitute) for layering and blending techniques to combine two animals into a new species. After that, we named our new species and made it a logo design!

Digital Photomontages Project

In our David Hockney inspired photomontage project, students learned all about Photoshop basics such as resolution sizes, image sizing, canvas sizes, and layering layering layering! 8th graders who really went above in beyond in this project got creative when it came to timing and photo manipulation or were also really considerate when choosing their subject matter.

Here are a few examples from the project, to see more check out my student gallery at BillVaughnArt.com

By Elina

By David

By Kenny

By Long Nam

By Mike

By Jessica

Ostagram

Check out these fun photos made using Ostagram.ru - a fun resource that lets you create computer generated photo combinations making one photo a filter to be applied over your original. The free version let's you make as many as you want but they take longer and longer to make each one as you go. It's still fun to load up and play around with though! Check out a few of these example combinations I made!

Smartphone Camera Tricks!

The iPhone is the most used camera in the world today, however many people don't do too much outside the box thinking when it comes to using it for taking photographs. Check out this awesome video below for 7 photography tips & tricks to get the most out of your smartphone camera!

Apple Photo Editting Basics

A lot of people I've met have Macbooks but don't know that they're computers photo viewing app already comes pretty well equipped with the tools for quick & easy photo-editting. In this video, I go over some of the basic functions of using Apple Preview App for photo-editting as well as how I use it for making photos of my own illustrations look like they were scanned!