#i learnt gradient text

[marikosenwrites]

📓✧˖°.bungo stray dogs smut scenarios and hcs

sen: my first smut fic lmao idk what and how i do but i'm gonna TRY MY BEST feed back is VERY MUCH appreciated i originally planned to do purely fic no hcs but i decided against that ^v^ tell me if you want the word count because i'm unsure if i should put it or not

characters: ada!dazai osamu, edogawa ranpo, chuuya nakahara

warnings: smut, mdni, im still putting ooc here, binding, biting (i'm still thinking tell me if smth needs to be added), rough sex (?), oral sex, use of y/n

(starts under the cut!)

‧₊˚⋅📃✎ᝰ..𖥔 ݁ dazai osamu

୨୧ loves binding you with random things that are flexible near him, like a tie or his bandages and things like that

୨୧ dazai just tangles his hand in your hair and like weaves through the strands and he doesn't want to pull his hand out so just pulls your hair and stuff

୨୧ if you ask him to be gentle, he compiles immediately and starts slowing down his relentless thrusts

୨୧ likes preparing you first (using his skilled fingers)

୨୧ when you're all wet he just invites himself

୨୧ pm!dazai would have done gunplay occasionally

scenario:

"bella- shit, you feel so, so, good, baby, yeah- god," dazai moans, his pace not slowing down, but becoming faster, which was what you hadn't expected.

a few whimpers and moans escape your lips, turning the taller on more, "'s-'samu, s-shit, slow down," you whimper some more as dazai hoists a leg on to his shoulder, allowing him to reach deeper places into your hole.

you scream, only to be stopped by two fingers going into your mouth. "shush, bella, yosano-san will find out. you certainly don't want that, do you?"

you shook your head in response, tears rapidly flowing down and reaching the crumpled sheets. although you cried, it was because of both the pain and the pleasure that your boyfriend was giving you.

"osamu..." you mumble as he slowed down his pace to an actually bearable one. "you're too harsh on me."

"oh? is that so?" he grinned and started to fasten his pace once again. "hmm?"

"o-osamu-! fuck-" as your pretty mewing and moans reached his ears, he grabbed a string of bandage on the nightstand next to you and tied your hands with it. "-osamu?"

"mm, you look more delightful than ever like this, bella." the man smirked.

"shall the show officially begin, now?"

‧₊˚⋅📃✎ᝰ..𖥔 ݁ edogawa ranpo

୨୧ into foodplay is the first thing i'll say

୨୧ loves sucking on tits too (literally his favorite thing to do what am i on about)

୨୧ loves sex after a tired day at work (like MINOURA or new people insulting him and stuff) (by insulting i mean saying that he isn't a good enough detective)

୨୧ sex between the both of you always starts with a make out session and then (and then) BOOM you strip and the good part starts

୨୧ he is a lazy bottom for real but when he's mad/frustrated oh boy you bouta see some stars

୨୧ loves when you top him

scenario:

quite a while had passed since you were bouncing on his on his cock, your moans and his combining into a harmony that was unique on the world, and only happens once a week or so.

ranpo had come home from a bad day, a frustrating one. you had always tended to his needs when it came to to tired days. and the same applies for you.

"mm...you look so nice bouncing like that f'me, sugar," the raven-head grins as he aids you with his hand.

you moan prettily, as you say, "ranpo- ngh-"

his moans get louder as he goes closer to reaching his peak. a while more after, you come with him closely following you in the motion. "well, sugar," his chest heaves up and down. "did you enjoy it?"

"m-mhm," you nod, unable to speak too much.

"well," he flips you around, now him on top of you as he puts the lollipop he was sucking in your mouth.

"let's begin round two."

‧₊˚⋅📃✎ᝰ..𖥔 ݁ nakahara chuuya

୨୧ not into gunplay, just because he's in the mafia, doesn't mean he has to be into gunplay right?

୨୧ is really soft with you once you warm up and stuff

୨୧ doesn't really have kinks

୨୧ had this one time he used his ability to pin you down

୨୧ active bottom? maybe. likes being in control more, though

୨୧ loves giving oral

scenario:

"doll, y/n, you're taking me so good, fuck-" chuuya groans in pleasure as your throat contracts and takes his length fully.

"ngh-" you couldn't really speak, considering...his dick was down your whole throat.

the red-head threw his head back as his eyes shut close, all while waves of pleasure overwhelmed his whole body and took over him.

your gaze went up, and observed chuuya. it was as if he had no more self-restraint at all. his gloved hand was tangled in your h/c hair, as he subconsciously massaged your scalp.

your groans met chuuya's sensitive ears and the sounds only turn him on more.

"sweetheart- ngh, fuck, s'good-" he felt some weird feeling gather at the bottom at his spine. was it his orgasm coming? perhaps. but in that moment, nothing mattered. in this world, you are his only pillar. you are his life. you are his everything.

one last moan and he came in your mouth, and less than a few seconds later, you also came. he pulled out as he watched his cum drip from his tip, and you swallowing the bodily fluid your hot session had produced.

"you were so good, doll." chuuya tenderly wiped a few beads of sweat off your forehead.

"i-" you swallowed your saliva, "it felt...good. maybe we should try again some other time, chuu."

"'s that so?" he smiled.

"we should end the night here. we're tired, after all."

©all banners, dividers, and stories are made by marikosenwrites and the pictures in it are from pinterest. i own none of the bungo stray dogs/bungou stray dogs/文豪ストレイドッグス characters mentioned here. all rights reserved, please do not steal.

mdni banner taken from @cafekitsune! (their work is much appreciated)

[heavenlyvision]

VISION YOURE BLUE NOW- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PINK?! 😭😭😭

HEKHREGKJH I DIDNT THINK ANYONE WOULD REALLY NOTICE 😭😭

i have been changing things around to match my theme colours a little more <33 it's a really light purple/blue and a pale pink :3 they've been my colours the whole time ! im just embracing them a bit more !!! i even learnt how to do gradient texts !!!! next fics formatting will be pretty ehghkewheh

[17isrighthere]

hi! again. 😊 Please excuse my bad explanation; I'm new to PS and still learning what things are called. My question was about how you manage to combine pngs images with gifs in such a cool way. As seen in this beautiful HOTD edit, for example. /post/698703305504882688/i-should-not-be-left-to-my-own-devices-anti-hero It would be awesome if you have time to explain how you do this for all of us newbies, but if not, I am thankful that you took the time to answer my ask. Best wishes. 😊

— hii no omg thanku for being so nice with your ask </333333 and i'm more than happy to share how i did it (that set was so long ago 😭 i don't have my hotd files rn but i'll just make do with an example)

this effect technically can be very simple to-do and all you need is a base background and a png to go on top! but if you want to recreate that effect exactly as it was in this set then prior to the png you need:

— two gifs, ready and coloured + blended together — a transparent png with a clean outline — basic knowledge of overlays (but really it's more of a learn-as-you-go thing so its fine 😭)

#1 — so first i wanted to find the png i was going to use. just search up ____ (whatever you're looking for) png transparent online and you should be able to find heaps of good, and free to use options! my go to site is nicepng but there are sooo many places you can look!!

what's important to remember is that for a cleaner result, you want to find a png with smooth outlines - aka nothing that is really rough or jagged in its edges.

so i chose this sun png and it has plenty of black space in it (as this will play a key role in how the colour shows through the png later) but it isn't a solid block of black either!

#2 — so i have my two gifs ready, coloured and blended with each other. remember that the gif choice underneath will also affect how the png's colours show through [whether the gif has a lot of pure white/black can really change the effect!]

#3 — so now i've just inserted the png onto the gif and you can position it anywhere you want on the canvas!

#4 — i'm not sure on the technicalities on why you need to do this (😭) but the png typically is black right, but you want to make it white so make sure to invert the png so it shows up white!! you can invert through adjustments or by pressing command + i or ctrl + i to do this!

#5 — now go to the blending mode of the png and set it to EXCLUSION. i think you can set it to difference as well but i'm no expert in that and i think they give the same result. your white png should turn sort of blue-ish translucent!! now we're ready to add colour <3

#6 — now right click/double click etc on the png and go to blending options here!

#7 — this is an optional step but if you want the outline of your png to appear a little more against the gif (say as the majority of the background in mine is mostly dark) then you can add a shadow to your liking! these are just my typical settings nowadays :D

#8 — head over to gradient overlay and choose a colour gradient that you would like! there are heaps of easy presets that i often default to (like plenty of blue/green/purple options) <3 and make SURE you set the blend mode of the gradient overlay to EITHER: — multiply (shows up pretty dark which can be useful at times!) — hard light (which shows up pretty bright, i'm going to use that in this gif because bright is what i need!) — colour (shows up more light/white and works well on lighter backgrounds imo)

#9 — finish up by adding your typography however you would like! i added the same gradient effect to 'SEVENTEEN' at the bottom of the text for a little more pop of colour!

and there you have it!!! that's your finished gif (or at least the same principle behind the hotd/anti hero set!) and here's the finished result <3 i hope this helps!!

i've gone through these similar steps in this tutorial as well! i learnt this from this great tutorial by @anya-chalotra 🧡

[520cafe]

fear me for i have learnt how to do gradient text

[honeybleed]

learnt how to gradient text and dividers black women in stem yup! as soon as i learn how to make gif dividers we cooking!

[dashawfrostart]

This *Past* Week In "Time & Again" #16: Preps For Something Big (And Unknown)

In regard to "Time & Again", the last week was... rather odd. One might possibly say it was somewhat uneventful, but that's not really true. In fact, it was SO EVENTFUL that I'm a little agitated right now. Or maybe "agitated" is not the right word. The writer/editor in me, sadly and to my shame, is failing to put it properly into words now to make it descriptive enough.

The most important thing is that little stuff here and there in Chapter 5 has been improved, altered (where needed) and fixed. So now it looks even better. For example, I recoloured a whole set of speech bubbles in Inkscape to make certain that the readers understand it easier to whom the certain lines belong to. As I worked on that particular improvement, I learnt a new trick yet again. I really like it how the newer interface in the latest versions of Inkscape works comparing to, say, that from the version 0.92 that I used when I only started to learn vector software. It makes everything much easier and allows to swap certain things in a matter of a few clicks (but also including a few minutes of swearing because I didn't realize that I was hitting the wrong buttons to begin with - that's how it sometimes goes for me 😅… but dis ok, everybody is learning, right?!). That goes for swapping gradients on the go, as well. I learnt that one can just import another SVG file that had extra gradients into another one to make extra pre-made gradients available in the list for an easy colour swap - and I needed that because I had to use the exact same colours for certain speech bubbles. I could've used a colour picker, of course, to take the colours from an already complete page... but I'd say swapping the gradient colours from a dropdown list is easier and hassle-free. I like that.

(those two pictures above are the examples of what I did, taken from one page: those are the straight exports of the speech bubbles from Inkscape. To the left, that's an old version, and to the right that's an updated new version as it is going to appear in the final release)

I also checked all the text again to make sure that I never missed anything that needed to be italicized (further reading on how I improved my font and created an italic version of it is in my previous post). Fonts are important in my story. Whenever something is highlighted in the text, be it through the formatting or via additional decorative effects - that MEANS certain something. The change of the font itself is also significant. Little details like that make me happy, and I love to see how meticulous the other artists can be when it comes to the little details like that. In my opinion, in art every little detail has a certain meaning, has an impact on the story and/or how it's perceived by the readers. So, in short, everything is important. It might be a hint of sorts, after all.

I even mused ahead, and not only I took extra notes on important monologues/dialogues for Chapter 6 that I'll start working on later this year (approximately in summer), but I also brainstormed the whole idea of "Time & Again" all over and came up with the certain concepts for the very distant story elements, even in regard to Chapter 8. I got ways to go, but it's never wrong to fantasize and refine what you've already had in your mind for the future 😉.

I am patiently waiting, enjoying my nice cup of Earl Grey tea in my apartment on this snowstormy day (yep, we are suddenly snow buried), as my editor gives the chapter a second read for further refinement. I'm very content about how it's going.

And I'm slowly setting up a page for Chapter 5 on my Itch.io - I'm gradually, resolutely getting there.

That's practically all I've done for the story itself within the last 7 days or so.

Majority of my incredible effort lately has been put into something else though.

And here's some important news: I've been trying to prepare for the two grand adventures that potentially await me in May. But - funny how it often happens this way in life, innit? - realistically speaking, only one of these adventures is going to take place in my life, for they are mutually exclusive. There is simply no way to combine them. It's either/or - no options in between. Therefore, knowing in advance that I put double the effort, only half of which will potentially pay off, it makes my life right now pretty fun, no doubt about it. But this is something that absolutely has to be done.

One of those endeavours is artistic - and another one has a great life importance to me. The artistic one though requires A LOT of preparation and a certain financial investment, too. Unfortunately, where it all stands right now, due to the time limitations, I am terribly restricted in my options. This is why I'm virtually trying to do a tribal dance with a tambourine in my right hand, twirling around the dining table, singing incomprehensible impromptu songs in all the languages I remotely speak in (hopefully not futile) attempts to draw a certain positive outcome closer to me. And trust me on that: this is not an easy task. I foresee myself looking like a sun-dried prune once the hassle is over.

You know, in videogames, I view RNG as some kind of a nuisance. It might be nice at times, but, being a fan of games where I have full control over everything I do, I cannot appreciate RNG very much. I like to be responsible about my own actions, and I want to know when I screw up or succeed, so that I could make adjustments to my actions accordingly. All this "RNG a.k.a. gambling, bro!" makes me cringe. In cases like that, I always feel like AI just hates me, LOL. Never have I been very lucky in small life events either... well, except for that one time, or maybe two at best. Well, if interpreting having blue jays at my balcony feeder as "a lucky event", then I'd say three. Yup.

Closer to May, aside from Chapter 5 release, hopefully! - I will make an announcement about if I rolled 20 for realsies and what The Real Life RNG is gonna present me - because the choice between the two possible routes does not depend on me. So we'll have to go from that. It's also fair to mention one of these routes potentially leads to me going radio silent (blog silent?.. internet silent?..) for a month. Which means no updates on the state of "Time & Again" for a while.

But enough of babbling for now, otherwise I turn into Edgar - who babbles all the time (according to Lothar anyway). That was another one not-really-to-the-point post. I had plenty of those many years ago 😁

See you soon! 👋

[desn512sarahb]

WEEK 2: Word association experiments Indesign

The first image was my first try, emphasising the word 'reminiscing' with each word slowly getting smaller, breaking apart and fading away. I wanted this to represent how when we reminisce on memories, they slowly fade away, as we can never remember memories completely. I placed many of the words on a lean and random directions, rather than straight as this made it flow much better to the viewers eye. Normally 'reminiscing' would express a happy emotion, I feel that this expressed the opposite of that, more of a gloomy and sad emotion.

Second image I decided to take the opposite uplifting approach with the word 'loud'. We learnt to repeat text into patterns in class so I used this to emphasise 'loud' by repeating it on a diagonal in a mix-match pattern. I chose to use a dark Burgundy colour as the background as it feels bold and loud. Then adding the gradient ontop fits the atmosphere well as when something is loud, the sound echos then slowly fades away.

The last image is my favourite which is another extension of the last experiment of 'loud'. Just adding another layer of the gradient text really brought the image together and emphases on the emotion of loud better.

[milliesteerviscom]

Final D&AD slides refinement

These are my final slides for the D&AD project. I tried to include as many elements from the Adobe brand identity as possible, such as rounded boxes, rounded type, and gradients of pastel colours for the background as seen on their website. The errors and weak design choices have been corrected in order to make a visually appealing result. Additionally, I placed the Adobe logo on each of the slides and adjusted the type so that it does not take away from the images, as they are intricate and important to understand. I found a typeface called ‘Co text’ on Adobe fonts that had the rounded letters as seen on Adobe’s website, which was the closest font I could find.

I found this project particularly challenging due to the constrictions of having to incorporate the Adobe brand theme, while trying not to overcomplicate the designs or get ahead of myself with ideas that were too far away from the brief. Throughout this project, I have doubted myself many times due to the outcome not being as I intended, and struggling to figure out why. Thankfully, both my peers and tutors helped to highlight the importance of research and how it should influence my work. I learnt that simplicity, use of colour, and looking at projects from a different angle should not be overlooked, as it can turn the result into a success.

[natashahyleet2]

Design Skills 2- Poster Design

In this workshop, we learnt how to create posters effectively by focusing on the message and target audience. We learnt about the importance of picking a good lead image, as well as typography that expresses a similar personality. We gained a deeper understanding about the hierarchy of text and important information that should be included on a poster.

In this poster, I edited the top part of the image on Photoshop to create a darker gradient, so that 'Bold Types' could be read more easily. I chose a flowery font for the the start of the words, to give it more personality and to complement the flower in the models mouth. I also kept the text colours similar to the colours in the lead image.

In this poster, I decided to choose a very elegant serif font for the description of the poster to coincide with the model. I found that the text colour white stood out the most on the blue dress. I chose quite a bold font for the title so it would stand out from the thin bars in the background. I also used the eyedropper tool on Photoshop, to colour match the title and the model's dress.

[uni-year-2]

Term One Week 8: Illustrator Workshop

We reviewed the fundamentals of using Adobe Illustrator during this workshop. This review covers important terms used in graphic design as well as practical Illustrator shortcuts that are common in the industry.

Typography

First, we examined the many properties of type, focusing on Leading, Kerning, and Tracking. Furthermore, we examined methods of characterising typographic elements and individual letters, including the type's baseline, character ascenders and descenders, and paragraph structure.

For instance, we examined widows and orphans in text bodies, which ruins legibility. I made the above infographic to show this.

2. Illustrator

During this portion of the session, we worked through Illustrator and covered some fundamental skills that will come in handy when finishing briefs. During the first part of the task, we looked at some of Illustrator's fundamental features. These features are mentioned at the top of the page. Additionally, I've shown how to create shapes by cutting out sections and combining multiple object layers.

This is an example of how the anchor points in the characters can be used to alter the typeface's general shape.

By adjusting the font's anchor points, I was able to produce a more streamlined and contemporary-looking font by starting with the Arial font.

One of the other tasks we learnt in the workshop was adding images and textures to type and vectors. We employed illustrator tools and shortcuts to achieve this. the image was placed over the type after it had been turned into outlines. A mask command (command + 7) must be used in order to make the image fill the type. In addition to using solids and gradients, this can help us give type and vectors intriguing and unique textures.

These were all created using the technique i just explained above.

Final task

Our last assignment, which served as a culmination of all we had learned in the workshop, was to design a fruit or vegetable character to go with a group of characters. To create it, you'll need to use a variety of techniques and short cuts, like layering and the pen tool to create various outlines and shapes.

This is the Tomato i created.

Illustrator Shortcut Commands

VIEWS

Zoom = Command + ( - +)

Show wireframe = Command + Y

OBJECTS

Mask = Command + 7

Group / Ungroup = Command + G / Command + Shift + G

Lock object / Unlock object = Command + 2 / Command + Alt + 2

Duplicate = Command + D

TYPE

Font size = Command + Shift + < > / Command + Shift + Alt + < >

Leading = Alt + UP/DOWN

Kerning = Alt + LEFT/RIGHT

[millmwilsonyrtwo]

ILLUSTRATOR REFRESHER!

revisiting old skills on illustrator to continue being comfortable with how to use it. jordy did teach us some new skills including 3D rendering, how to give it a elongated background, shape builder, knife tool, gradient tool and how to get text to go around a shape. this was so helpful as I learnt a lot of new things I either didn't know or wasn't too sure on so feel a lot more confident continuing to use illustrator!

[daisyskeates1]

ILLUSTRATOR WORKSHOP

we learnt lots of things from this workshop :

NOTES I TOOK:

Essentials classic on workspace 

Touch type will edit text (click hold text)

Create a path and type on a path (click hold text)

Or create a circle and type on a path

Gradient:

Make a square. Use gradient tool to click on the shape. Change type of gradient. Change colour by double clicking gradient buttons. 

Put text in front and command shift close spare brackets to bring in front of square

Select both, Object, clipping mask, make or command 7

To create star or shape hold it whilst making it and press up or down to create more points on shape 

Drag star into clip group on layers so it’s within clipping mask 

Drag it into a text thin so u can see it within 

Windows, artboard, add a new one 

Add 2 circles overlapping, window, pathfinder, divide and move the middle part away 

Make 2 circles. Make them just touch. Make a bigger circle over top. Command Y to make outline view. Select all. Shape builder tool. Select any part of shape. Alt and click path of shape. Can drag shape into another shape to combine 

Make a circle. Click hold eraser. Knife tool. Cut shapes 

Select multiple shapes. Blend tool. Double click. Specified shapes. 5 steps. Bosh 

Command shift O. Make into outlines. 

Make text. Effect. Extrude and bevel. Makes 3d. Bubble is fine leather 

Select something. Object. Pattern. Make

THE GYM Collection = interpretation

OUR IDEA

Our topic in which we have chosen as a group is the gym. This is a very well known and popular environment which includes a lot of statistics and data we could collect to help us with our posters.

To start, we went to the gym and took photos of us carrying out different exercises and gym equipment to help us carry our initial research.

TARGET AUDIENCE: we would like to make our target audience every age between 15-80 year olds, this is because we are helping younger and older adults to choose the right gym for them.

GYM FACES (photos taken by Nujjiya)

GYM POSES / EXERCISES

GYM EQUIPMENT

[mollykochblog]

Illustrator 1 introduction- 18/10/23 week 3

Today we used many different techniques to create lots of different outcomes. I began by setting up an illustrator document- closing the correct sizing and borders.

I began by creating simple shapes and learning shortcuts to duplicate them and to allow to keep their shape. I used pen tool to create my own type face of bold sharp letterings and learnt how to add colour.

I learnt how to add text to a path tool, creating cool effects such as around a circle and star. These make for great logos... I learn how to add gradients to shapes and how to select colours for the gradients. I also created pathfinders which means you can separate shapes from one another, giving each colours and allowing to move all separately.

I believe this session was very beneficial for me as it allowed me to be creative, free and have fun with new experiments. I am excited to put these new skills to good use within my own work within my course.

[17isrighthere]

hello! the set you made for @/woozi is so pretty. i was just wondering how you made the rotating circles? and how you put animations on your gifs in general? thank you very much!

☀️ hey! i'll explain two types of moving texts (rotating in a circle and zooming in). anon, i'm not sure sure on what you meant by animations 😭 so feel free to send another ask and i'll be more than happy to show u!!! i learnt this from the talented drea @sashafierce here!

♥ CIRCULAR / ROTATING TEXT

to make our text in the shape of a circle: go to the shapes / right click to select an ellipsis shape / go to the top left corner and next to the ellipsis shape it has a dropdown menu that says 'shape / click on the menu and choose path / draw your circle shape

once your path is set (as above) click on your text tool / hover it right over the circle's line (and it should show up with a wavy line through the text cursor) / type your text up in white / if you want it to be gradient set the text to exclusion and put a gradient overlay (in hard light) in blending options.

the animation: press the little drop down arrow on your text's layer in the timeline / make sure your preview blue thing (whatever its called) is at the very start of your gif or where you want the animation to start / press the little clock! this will create a small yellow triangle.

drag your blue cursor preview thing (still don't have a name for it) to the end of your gif (or where you want your animation to complete) / now rotate your text (if you rotate it the entire 360 degrees it will be pretty fast so i recommend even 1/4 to 1/3 of the way is enough)

once you've let go of the rotation and you've pressed the tick mark a small grey triangle will appear the end of your animation. that's it! just play the gif through to make sure nothing is choppy!

so this is our finished gif! ignore the typo please 😭

if you want to create the 'zoom in' text effect - it follows almost the exact same animation steps as above.

create your text (with the final approx. size that you want) and use the resize tool to make your text smaller.

once you've pressed the clock on your text, drag the blue slider to the end of the gif (or in the middle depending on preference) and then resize your text with the scale in the transform section.

once you've let go, a small grey triangle will appear again and you'll have your zoomed in text! if anyone needs clarification, i'll be happy to show you!

[minhosimthings]

hey, i came across your jake fanfic blue days yellow nights and i was wondering, how do you make the text coloured but not taking the colours that are already availabe? idk it it makes sense lol but i mean if you don't want your text in the colours that are already availabe, wich are black, orange, blue, green, pink, red and purple i believe, how do you make it in another colour?

Hey anon! I've actually also learnt how to do this gradient shit a few days ago from one of my beloved moots Carly, who's taught me how to do it in this post. So you can check that post out if you want to do it! You can get the different colours from there since Tumblr doesn't provide them. And also don't do it on the phone since the html option isn't available on a mobile device.

[samcol1]

WEEK 10 - EXPANDED

ITSY BITSY SPIDER

The first illustration I did was for this nursery rhyme. Knew I didn't want it to look normal or "cute". Thought that adding teeth would be somewhat menacing. This idea evolved into the spider just having a singular large eyeball. This first illustration fuelled the idea of creating all my characters with an obscure large eyeball.

Book mock ups

Super simple, opened up the psd file then looked in layers for the smart object named "left page design" or "right page design". Opened up the smart object and placed the design into each smart object and then saved the smart objected and it applied.

For my front and back cover I used columns to help align my text.

The front cover I used the columns to align the text and then slightly moved the text to the left and then added my name.

The back cover I added 6 columns and then placed the text within the columns to create that.

Used the pattern technique learnt in previous weeks. Used my eye as it was the prominent design throughout my book. I placed a white square behind the eyeball and grouped it all. Dragged the group into the swatches panel. Made a rectangle the size of the page and simply filled the rectangle with the new swatch I just made. This created the pattern. I changed the pattern so that it wasn't straight up and down by editing the tile type and brick offset.

TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

For this design I made the star by using the shape (star) tool. Added lines through the star as I wanted it to have some depth. Then added an overlay gradient layer which made the centre darker. Finally I added the eye over the top. I duplicated this design, altered the shades of grey and moved them around the page.