Above is a logo I created for the Long Beach Tennis Center located in Long Beach on Long Island. The Tennis center pretty much had the design they wanted; the only problem was that it was on a polo shirt with no art work. The one thing I wanted to achieve with this project was [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Revamping A Logo In Long Beach
Posted in Projects, tagged graphic design, logo design, long beach, long island, nassau county, new logo, new york, photoshop, tennis center on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Seeing The Finished Product
Posted in Projects, tagged Adobe CS3, jewelry, long island, nassau county, new york, new york city, orchids, photoshop, retouching, suffolk county on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The above image is a retouch that I did for a midtown Manhattan jewelry company. The retouching and layout was done in Photoshop CS3. I chose the orchid from Shutterstock which is a company that deals with royalty free photography. The idea for this project pretty much came from my head. We had a dvd [...]
Design & New Ideas
Posted in Projects, tagged art, graphic design, long island, nassau county, new york, new york city, photoshop on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently reading an article in an art magazine that was pretty much describing where artists were getting there inspiration from. Often I was reading it was the environment that people either grew up in or traveled to that really impacted the disigns they created. I myself grew up on Long Island and to certain [...]
Staying True To The Photo Your Retouching…
Posted in Projects, tagged Adobe, long island, new york, new york city, photo retouch, photoshop cs3, vietnam picture on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Above you’ll see one of my latest retouching projects. The picture was taken during the Vietnam war. I actually know the man in the picture and hearing the stories behind some of the images he showed me I really wanted to come through with a great piece while still staying true to the actual image. [...]
Photo Retouching Even A Hair
Posted in Projects, tagged adobe cs 3, graphic design, photo retouching, photography, photoshop cs3, retouching on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great example of just how detailed and precise you can get in retouching a photo. Above I took out the strands of hair hanging in front of the woman’s face. So how did I do it and how hard is it really to achieve retouching of this detail… From the start I [...]
Some Tips With Adobe Indesign CS3
Posted in Projects, tagged Adobe, adobe creative suite cs3, brochures, catalogs, graphic design, Indesign, print on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So you have a print job you need to put together and want to use Indesign. I’m going to give some helpful advice with the software just from my own experience. Just a rule of thumb with me when putting together any print job, I organize my graphics. With my web work it’s a must [...]
Talking About Art & Design
Posted in Projects, tagged Adobe CS3, graphic design, illustrator, new york city, photoshop, web design on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I was sitting with two people in other fields than myself. They were telling me how they were blessed with skills that allowed them to create with there natural abilities. Then they looked at me and said almost at the same time “Jonathan you just don’t get it, we have natural ability to [...]
Behind Creating This Blog…
Posted in Projects, tagged graphic design, illustrator, long island, manhattan, nassau county, new york, new york city, photoshop, suffolk county, web design on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So I wanted to have at least one entry in this blog explaining why I felt it was time to have a graphic and web design blog for my web site. For starters I continuously meet with people that ask me how I started out in the field of graphic and web design. I often find [...]
The Early Days…
Posted in Projects, tagged adobe creative suite cs3, adobe illustrator cs3, graphic design, illustrator, logo design, photoshop cs3, web design on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Above is one of the first full vector illustrations I did in Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator you have the ability to export and copy your work into other Adobe programs for various reasons. Whether it’s illustrating, brushing up with some additional effects, or animating you can do it all with the Adobe Creative Suite CS3. [...]
Photo Retouching 101
Posted in Projects, tagged graphic design, jewelry retouching, logo design, photo retouching, web design on September 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo retouched for Ritani LLC.
Honestly out of all the retouching work I’ve done, retouching jewelry is by far the toughest. The challenges you face are not just from the software you use but by the photography provided. Having to deal with lighting issues in diamonds, wax left on the shank, and reflections are just [...]
