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Raster Doodles

Last updated: Sat 06 December 2025

There were two raster image projects in the graphic design class I took. I am ashamed to admit these were made in Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately neither I nor my teacher were allowed to install GIMP on the lab computers due to my college IT department’s lengthy software security review process.

The first project was called “Preposterous Persona” (by the department, I didn’t choose that name), and required the use of some of the simple image manipulation tools such as selection, move and transform, eraser, cage/puppet warp, and filter/adjustment layers. I went to town with the puppet warp tool on this one.

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The second project was called “Beyond Confines” and it involved using the non-destructive edting tools, mostly layer masks. This one was actually a bit harder for me to create, mostly because I could not find any stock images of a person sitting in the pose I was looking for. So I did the next best thing and took a photo of myself.

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Interesting note: I do not own a Playstation Portal nor any other handheld gaming console (Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, etc). In the original photo I used, I was holding a book. But thanks to the magic of image editing you’ll never notice that!