Gif it Up

This project was made for a contest given by our library teacher. The contest asked people to make gifs out of free to use, non-copyrighted pictures. I used this picture because I thought this guy looked cool. I had lots of trouble getting this gif to work because it would keep going transparent and disappearing but I finally got it to work out as best possible.

Old 'n New Photos

For this project, I was allowed to pick any tutorial on the NAPP site to attempt. I had a choice between that or making holiday cards but I decided to pick the tutorials because I prefer to work with actual photos. The tutorial was given by Dave Cross. I watched the beginning of the tutorial but it wasn't too hard to figure out so I just added my own touch to it. The premise of the idea was a contest where people would try and find the locations where old pictures were taken and line them up. I picked a street in venice for this because it has a nice old feel to it. I found a picture of someone holding a card, overlaid it, and put some of the picture over it. Then, I added some effects to make it look older. I am really happy with how this turned it out.

Money Redesign

For this project, we were assigned to make our own type of money. You could either redesign a currency thats already around or you could completely create your own. I chose to make my own money. I decided to make money based on rappers. I chose Biggie Smalls and Kanye West. For each rapper I included the city they were born in the background. I also put their music label logo for extra "hologram" looking effect. On the back of the money I put a majority of their albums. I really like how these turned out and I wish this is what the United States currency actually looked like.