Photoshop 02: Borders

Having found and signed up to the Adobe Daily Challenge series, I've had a look at one tutorial to try out, watched the video and given it a go.
The video is wonderfully presented, really straightforward and quite engaging too. 

The tutorial is relatively straight forward but a bit visually fiddly. It useful shows you how to use the rulers briefly, along with above tool/options mentioned.
I ignored the using the Libraries pane to drag and drop images though as I want to primarily use my own photos anyway. So instead the images I wanted to use were opened to copy and paste from.

This will be useful to show students how to add borders or develop edits that are relatively straight forward but can have the composition manipulated to produce some very interesting results. I ignored the using the Libraries pane to drag and drop images though as I want to primarily use my own photos anyway. So instead had the images I wanted to use open as tabbed images to copy and paste from.
This will be useful to show students how to add borders or develop edits that are relatively straight forward but can have the composition manipulated to produce some very interesting results.

 

Gradient added to develop space for text.Could this be used to insert quotes or lines from a poem?

Links:
Adobe/Behance Photoshop Daily Challenge: https://www.behance.net/challenge/photoshop

About Adobe Libraries: https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/libraries.html 

Photoshop Daily Creative Challenge #01: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXFBXHqqBg

  

Photoshop 01: Actions Panel

Learning how to batch resize images...and use the batch edit function AND learn how to record actions or processes used on one image to do the resizing.
I found this excellent tutorial here:
https://enviragallery.com/how-to-batch-resize-images-in-photoshop/

Then I went off to develop some smaller images for use on my website (which is still under major construction, its needs plastering, painting and filling in with work).

I have wondered if it's worth while making such a tutorial a resource for my teaching file, but really, if someone else has already done the awesome work of putting together a really straightforward guide, why should I repeat it?

Thinking this could be manipulated to then have colour painted onto images automatically, but using the colour picker tool to pick out colours at random for each image, so in essence you get a unique colour palette each time you use the action.

Unfortunately, this didn't work.

Photoshop goes through the process, and even flickers through colours from the time the action was originally recorded, but nothing comes up on the image. 

I checked to make sure that the other actions were still working, and of course the resize action in the screenshots below worked perfectly. 

But maybe there are other ways of using the Actions tool to create some automated starting points to work with?

Also I've finally updated my mixed media gallery with the Mix and Match series:
https://hennajaved.squarespace.com/

A note going forward...

Blowing off the dust from this blog. I need to consider how to do things differently, and how to manage it all when this is all over. When I'm back at work. Where the grind at times, seems to never stop. Maybe that's me though, I need to stop and say nope, not doing any more of this. 1: Keep painting once a day 2: Keep drawing once a day 3: Keep training once a day (TKD) 4: Keep reading (and don't stop even in term time!) I will come back to this post later I think. And maybe laugh at the concept that this can be done.

Until I'm back at work, I think I'll concentrate on the blog a bit. First thing, I want to create a clear identity for this blog. It's all about colour and pattern, yes, but then there is something else very important to me, art history. Not always looking into the past with cobwebs, but the near past, the present, the possible future and so on. Pen and Paper > Zine > Collaboration (meaning I'm going to have to develop some links so I can collaborate with others). Pattern and Surface > Blog > selflessly solo > updates on my practice as an artist > exploring the web and the world (for now just the web) > exhibition reviews > ideas and more ideas!!