Optical_Emily

Is this a profile or face on photo?  The answer is yes.  Our own very beautiful senior, Emily, agreed to help me create this image using two of her.  One profile and one face on.  I watched Marty at Blue lightning TV to create this fun optical illusion.

Sketchup Materials Window

Fractal Plugin

I created the image below using a plugin from Fractalius.  The original image is above.  I used a layer mask to remove the effect from Jennifer's face and neck. This is a really nice plugin, but unfortunately, it is only available for a PC.

Eclipse Standard and Animated

Mallory shared a video from Blue Lightning TV with me that showed you how to create an eclipse in Photoshop.  This is the result of my first try.  Not too shabby.  I decided to animate it a bit and produced the following result:

In order to create the rotation motion, I had to first convert the flair layer into a smart object.  This will give you the option to transform the layer on the timeline animation.  The rotation wasn't perfect, but not too bad overall.