The time they let me loose on Photoshop....

After our tutorial, we were told to try and recreate the steps of the tutorial  by ourselves. I managed to remember most of the steps until I came to colour the background. I  referred back to the sheet that Paul gave us and carried on. When I came to recreate it myself, I altered the shape I made on Illustrator and decided to try and keep a colour scheme. I  used blues and purples  in my own version of the pattern. I think  that my first attempt was better, although I am starting to get the hang of using Photoshop and the tools on it.  

Photoshop Tutorial 2

In tuesday's lesson, we did another Photoshop tutorial. To start with, I drew a squiggly line in Illustrator and then reflected it. I moved the reflection up so that the lines connected and formed  a shape. I then pasted  this shape into Photoshop and added some noise to the background. This  meant that the background blurred slightly. I then pasted the shape in four times so that I had one pointing in each direction. On separate layers, I added a spot of colour on each point of the shape. I then dissolved this so that it looked like the colour  was distorted slightly. After this, I added a layer mask to alter the tones. Once we had completed these steps, I added a lighter tone into the middle to highlight the colours.
From this tutorial, I learnt how I can create really good graphics using only basic tools in  Photoshop.