Swimmingly Awesome! - Aspen

" I chose a landscape for the top of the water, then I found a underwater picture and put them together by smudging them. Last I found a goldfish and scuba diver, changed their size and opacity." - Aspen

Giraffe Hand - Dillon

found five different giraffe heads and a hand. then i positioned the heads on each finger then used a layer mask and the gradient fade to make them blend together.

Peeling Surprise - Dillon

i started off by creating a different bend in the snakes body, i tried warping it but it didn't work like i wanted so i blended two section of the snake together and got the bend i wanted. then i work the end of the snake to make it seem part of the banana then blended it with a layer mask and gradient fade tool. i added some darker spots on the banana to make it blend better

2013 Winner

Congratulations to Victor G. whose 2013 image was chosen by the Arc of the Hill Country board of directors to use for their various graphic design needs.  Runner up was Maddy S.

Victor G.

Maddy S.

Disney Magazine Standouts

Kaitlan, 4th period

Harlie, 4th period

Conner, 6th period

Ariell, 2nd period

Prism Shoe - Austin B.

"So... I found this tutorial online and started my work immediately. I found these paint splashing textures online with this tutorial. The rest is simply creating a clipping mask and then using the gradient fade adjustment layer over each of your paint layers. Use the eye dropper if you have to, and just erase or layer mask it to your liking. This shoe is LeBron James' "Prism" shoe, just thought this would be an interesting shoe to go off of instead of the one from the tutorial." - Austin B.

Pattern Collage by Maddy

"This is a collage of all the patterns I created. They were all made by different brushes. The swirls are from the "spiky swirls" link Mrs. Miller put on her blog. The mechanical looking one and the bubbles were both sets of brushes downloaded from a website called myphotoshopbrushes.com. And the cell brushes were also from melbrushes. All were free downloadable files. I do recommend checking out that website for a lot of cool brushes." - Maddy