tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17348987138490963772012-02-16T04:43:02.284-08:00Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-74408383043013372492009-09-09T10:13:00.000-07:002009-09-09T10:14:47.068-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqfibOByPoI/AAAAAAAAABs/H_u_Yn9w39s/s1600-h/preview2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqfibOByPoI/AAAAAAAAABs/H_u_Yn9w39s/s320/preview2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379517237167275650" border="0" /></a>No, its not the final rapture.<br /><br />It's a small brush set i've put together for other photshop enthusiasts.<br /><br />You can goto deviant art and download them from there. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-7440838304301337249?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-4801382945513865362009-09-09T09:11:00.000-07:002009-09-09T09:31:36.072-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqfUZh7uDoI/AAAAAAAAABk/uJVsY4GNYr0/s1600-h/Rolling_Stone_Matthew_Ruland_by_oranrene.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqfUZh7uDoI/AAAAAAAAABk/uJVsY4GNYr0/s320/Rolling_Stone_Matthew_Ruland_by_oranrene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379501814988017282" border="0" /></a><br />http://www.oranrene.deviantart.com/<br /><br />I forgot about this little site here, where pretty much everyone goes to showcase their various forms of artistic mediums. You can find some of my earliest photoshop pieces there. Not that a lot of them are particularly great, however the one from the main page tends to be one of my alltime favorites that i've made.<br /><br />I'll probably have it printed and hung one day. I'm very much proud of it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-480138294551386536?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-40837798906579504762009-09-08T23:57:00.001-07:002009-09-09T00:00:59.108-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqdSBsPXkjI/AAAAAAAAABc/FCXpNKVON7U/s1600-h/wip.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SqdSBsPXkjI/AAAAAAAAABc/FCXpNKVON7U/s320/wip.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379358468926313010" border="0" /></a>I really enjoyed the kind of morbid feel that I did for Nate's band. So after hours of messing around with these shapes ive created, (Which I may later pack into a psd or brushes for others to reproduce and do something similar) i came up with this great dredged kind of top border. Many drop shadows and outer glows were done for the background text. So far i'm satisfied(Which is not often, we'll see how long it lasts), it gives the appearance of a page out of a book in a desolate scenery.<br /><br />I'm still messing around with it... I personally believe it needs more symbolism and a bit of contrast in the center of the design around a central symbol. More to be added soon!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-4083779890657950476?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-8635610398632994162009-08-28T23:47:00.000-07:002009-08-29T00:33:47.147-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SpjZpe_-JmI/AAAAAAAAABU/npi9eCVKk3I/s1600-h/cloudlessmind.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SpjZpe_-JmI/AAAAAAAAABU/npi9eCVKk3I/s320/cloudlessmind.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375285461985928802" border="0" /></a> <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: left;">After months of nothing posted, I finally reinstalled Photoshop on my new PC (Yay!) <br /> <br />My new PC, being completely hand built by yours truly, is capable of fast processing all my Photoshop stuff (Dual core <3) <br /> <br />I've also decided to move my blog from the direction of 'Hey my life' to strictly photoshop related work. Maybe as a personal diary, if you wanna look at it that way, i don't really care. <br /> <br />Either way, this one comes at the request of my good buddy Nathan, who I was giving some tips to in photoshopping grunge related images. <br /> <br />This one actually more satisfying then the previous one I completed, the text blends perfectly with the sharp blur i've created for it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-863561039863299416?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-44772105426849483872009-03-30T11:31:00.000-07:002009-08-29T10:40:06.588-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SdESf05VqPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/0z79wl1Yib8/s1600-h/nate2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-JUTEtOisTQ/SdESf05VqPI/AAAAAAAAAAM/0z79wl1Yib8/s320/nate2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319052972885649650" border="0" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Despite a few minor errors (That have already been patched, I just dont feel like saving a new jpeg), i'm rather proud of this, thus far.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The text in the top right is totally not finalized (I fucking hate it), however it captures the feel I think of what my good buddy <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hxc4394">Nathan</a> wanted (He's got this music projects he's doing, a<a id="publishButton" class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" target="" onclick="if (this.className.indexOf(&quot;ubtn-disabled&quot;) == -1) {var e = document['stuffform'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}"><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner">Publish Post</div></div></div></a>nd I saw some of the ugly stuff he had up on the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/cloudlessmind">myspace</a> it. I offered help. Amorous, aren't I?)</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Though his original idea for it was something like:</div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r103/aoa4394/1.jpg" /><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I ended up scrapping the bubblyness of it (You can still see the twirled bubbles if you look hard enough) and going with a more sparkley space type thing (I prefer that over tye-dye bubbles) with his specified colors. I'll probbably update when the finished product is around. Mind you, I work in high-res. I hate small image sizes, so the one on the front page is reduced (A lot, god damn</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-4477210542684948387?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1734898713849096377.post-74981171510668213252009-03-30T11:28:00.000-07:002009-03-30T11:31:27.525-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Well, not really.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I've started this blog as something of an online journal of my life activities. A record of my progress, if you will. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">It's not just limited to that however, any graphics projects I start will also probbably be tossed up along with it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1734898713849096377-7498117151066821325?l=matthewor.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08974022856742942067noreply@blogger.com0