Creating Digital Display

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/special-effects/digital-display.html

First I chose a picture of bowling. Then I created a Mosaic filter with a cell size of 8, applied a Find Edges filter and a median filter with a radius of 2 pixels. I selected the Magic Wand tool and used a tolerance of 8 to select the white area and inverse it. Then I applied another Median filter but with a radius of 3. I deselected everything, used Auto Levels, and inverted the image. Then i duplicated the layer and changed the blending mode to overlay and merged the layers together. I then duplicated the layer again and changed the blending mode of that layer to Screen. I applied and Find Edges filter, inverted the layer and added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to change the colouring to green.

This effect has a lot of steps and takes a while but is also very easy. As long as you follow the steps properly it will turn out well. This would work for all kinds of people with all kinds of skill levels because even though it looks long and complicated it actually just uses a bunch of preset filters in a certain combination.

Random Album Covers

The first album is by Conon de Bethune which I picture as an old fashioned French band that plays kind of, medieval music with fiddles and such, so I used a handwritten font. The picture gives a different idea though. It suggests a more modern artsy type of band that may be a bit ahead of its time. Because of the picture I used a more modern font for the album name ("It's All We'll Need") and made it more interesting by using the same font in a dark red offset behind it. As for the album name itself, "It's All We'll Need", I think it could play in with the album picture, the It in the title could be referring to the baby in the picture.

The second album is by a man named George Gerbner which could of been anyone until I saw the picture. The album picture suggests that he is maybe a bit gothic and troubled. The music would have a lot of pianos and organs, with depressing tunes. I used an interesting font for his name and added a glowing effect. I thought the glowing effect would help it pop out of the black but would also give it a little bit of an eerie tone. The album name, "The Better Part of Biography" suggests that his music would have a sense of sophistication to it even though it is dark and depressing. The title is in a very generic, all capital font and made it yellow so it would stick out.

Celebrity Photo

For this image I first took a photo of Lady Gaga and cut her out. I used the marquee tool to select some of the background and then Select > Similar. Then I used the lasso tool to add and subtract parts I did or did not want. I inversed the selection from the background to Lady Gaga then placed her on the photo of penguins. I adjusted the colour and contrast slightly to make it look more realistic.

I chose Lady Gaga as my celebrity and placed her with a bunch of penquins in antarctica. This image is incongruous because Lady Gaga probably lives in sunny California where they only have summer, she has most likely only seen penguins in a zoo and though she may dress likely a penguin she probably would not fit in with them.

Obama

For the first image I started with a picture of Obama and used the magnetic lasso tool to select him. I inversed the selection and deleted the background. I selected Obama again and dragged him to a picture of the great wall of china.

For the second image I again used the magnetic lasso tool to select Obama and then created a layer mask. I then filled a new layer with a solid colour and used multiply in the layers palete so you could see the background. Using the airbrush tool i got rid of all the blue halos.
The second image took more time and was more confusing but also looked more realistic because their were no halos. It had way more steps and some of the steps were unnecessary.

Welcome everyone!!! and Carly :)