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Hipposquirrel by Peter Jacobson In my class (ID320) where we learn Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Solidworks and Keyshot, one way I teach some Photoshop skills is to create photo manipulations.  These are done by sophomore students who only have 2 weeks of photoshop training. They were created from various photos found on the web, so apologies to the original photographers, but these were done for educational purposes and fun only. Enjoy and share. - J. M. Iron JFK by Drew Falabella When Insects Attack by Sam Weaver Earth Popping by Noah Lamphear Kitten in a Bottle by Jill Kuyt Moon Walker by Justin Janczakowski Morning Cup by Chloe Lewis Octophant by Dylan Fischer Taking my T-Rex on a walk by Scott Paton

Star Destroyer visits Seattle I've been making Photoshop video tutorials for my students, and here is a short one about integrating two separate images.  Not perfect, but it illustrates the technique and was only done in 8 minutes.

Adobe Illustrator is now the most requested software for industrial design positions, dethroning Photoshop. Solidworks is third on the list and clearly the most requested 3D application in ID job postings in IDSA's Design Perspectives monthly newsletter. Nine issues of the newsletter were studied from March 2007 to October 2008 and the number of specific mentions of software were counted. Only industrial design postings were counted, not graphic design, engineering, or educational positions. (See graph at left.) Adobe Illustrator has proved to be a very versatile rendering tool for design and has especially improved in usefulness since version CS2. Color shape areas remain as editable vectors and filters and effects such as blur, feather, drop shadow, bevel, emboss and others can be used to great effect. (the snowboard boot shown here was done with Illustrator by Western sophomore ID student James Lin) Adobe Photoshop is still holding a strong second place, since it gives incre...

In my photoshop class (Etec312) at Western my students have been taking various photos and images and making strange and scary mash-up manipulations. Here are some of them... Eagle woman by Erin Yoakum New Species by Jesse Savage Star Trek rocks out! by Antonio Mendez Bill Stepping Up by Alex McCulloch Baby by Evan McCormack The BILK by Ryan Mahan Paris' big secret by Jannike Lindberg (Not exactly ID, but good practice with Photoshop) bicycle t-shirts, stickers, iPhone cases and other gear.