Cartoon Your Face in Photoshop - Tutorial

To create a cartoon effect for your photo follow the steps in this tutorial. Here is what we are about to do:

Step 1

Open your image in Photoshop! Goto Filter -> Artistic -> Poster Edges.

Step 2

Select the magic wand tool  and eliminate the background. You may need the lasso tool  in case the background is complicated.

Step 3

Now you need the magic wand   again to eliminate the face colors and details.

Step 4

After that Goto Filter ->; Sketch ->; Graphic Pen.

Step 5

Next you need to select the Lasso tool and eliminate the dots and details that appear. 

Finally it should look like this.

Step 6

Apply color #ef6536 to the background. Apply color #fbd954 to the face and skin. Your final image is ready.

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Photoshop Kills

I did layouts for SHaddup (Sheares Hall monthly gossip magazine, a product of the Sheares Hall Publications). Just wish to share a couple of them that i really like:

Shaddup#4 - Left Page

Shaddup#4 - Right Page

Shaddup#5 - Left Page

Shaddup#5 - Right Page

-Photoshop Kills ;)

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A Brochure Design

Recently, for my Semester 1 module LSM1302: Genes and Society, I designed a brochure as an assignment. The purpose of the brochure is to propogate the genetic testing for breast cancer. I had a fun time doing this brochure. Used photoshop! Here are some snaps:

In the whole process I learnt some important facts about breast cancer!

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Blogger Template- Working with CSS

I recently found time to expand my knowledge on web-designing by exploring in detail CSS-Cascading Style Sheets. For those of you who hear it for the first time, my friend wikipedia describes it: "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL."

I had the idea of its syntax and working but never did i actually put my skills to practise. So I decided to start with something simple but something that would be useful and not a waste of time. Thus, I decided to create a blogger template.

Designing a blogger template from scratch would have taken ages.. so i decided to start with a pre-designed template and modify it with my styles and classes to give it the look i wanted. What came up as a result was this template:

View Demo | Download

This template incorporates shades of black, white and blue.. includes a favicon like the one for this blog, a navigation bar and several other customizable features. To be honest i think the blog banner is a bit too simple and can be futher improved. Since I don't have enough time now.. maybe I will update it in future.

You can download this template and use it for your own blog. Just visit the demo blog above and find out the details. Feel free to give your suggestions!

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India in its colors..

The visual world, the world as we see it, is a world populated by colored objects. Typically, we see the world as having a rich tapestry of colors - fields, mountains, oceans, hairstyles, clothing, fruit, plants, animals, buildings, and so on. Colors are important in both identifying objects, not only in locating them in space, but also in re-identifying them. So much of our perception of physical things involves our identifying objects by their appearance, and colors are typically essential to an object's appearance, that any account of visual perception must contain some account of colors.
Over the centuries, colors have been used for signifying meanings in heraldry, given to the months of the year and the seasons, religious symbolism, and for everything from weddings to babies. Color is the most important element of India, from bright colorful clothes to beautiful and creative paintings, pottery and handicrafts. From mouth watering Indian cuisines to the seasons and festivals, it all reflects the distinctive and rich culture and colorful spirit of the people of India. Here in my collection I have tried to have colors, themselves speak of India and its spirit.

Note: The above images have just been edited by me. Thanks and credits to the original photographers for the image.

I feel this collection is incomplete because several aspects of the indian culture and spirit have not been included. I hope to add other images to this collection.

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Who am I?

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