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PHOTOSHOP

The Project Collection

Discover the Photoshop projects that form the foundation of our Interactive Media curriculum. Each project is carefully designed to introduce new creative techniques, strengthen technical skills, and inspire students to develop original artwork while building a professional portfolio.

Featured artwork represents student work from multiple years and has been curated to showcase the creativity, technical growth, and diverse artistic interpretations inspired by each assignment.

CREATIVE TYPOGRAPHY

The Art of Letters

Type:

Advanced Typography

Course:

Level 3

Student-created typography design featuring the word “Inferno” transformed into flowing green and blue flame-like letters against a black background designed in Adobe Photoshop.

CREATIVE TYPOGRAPHY COLLECTION →

BACK IN THE STUDIO

Mixed Media Reflections

Type:

Advanced Composite

Course:

Level 2

Student-created mixed media digital collage in Adobe Photoshop combining illustration, photography, typography, textures, and personal imagery.

BACK IN THE STUDIO COLLECTION →

THE BUTTON BOX

Little Art → Big Statement

Type:

Print & Physical Media

Course:

All Levels

Hero image for “The Button Box” featuring round student-designed buttons with a sleeping green dinosaur, a holiday dragon holding a candy cane, and a blue-and-gold school crest on a black background.

THE BUTTON BOX COLLECTION →

SKETCH TO STORY

Characters Come to Life

Type:

Character Design

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Student-designed original character from concept to completion of a multi-armed illustrated digital artwork using Adobe Photoshop and Wacom tablets.

SKETCH TO STORY COLLECTION →

ONE LANDSCAPE

Infinite Visions

Type:

Digital Painting

Course:

Level 1

Student-created digital blue mountain landscape painting completed in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom tablet, custom brushes, layers, and painting techniques.

ONE LANDSCAPE COLLECTION →

DESKTOP DESIGNS

Personalized Mousepad Design & Sublimation

Type:

Print & Physical Media

Course:

All Levels

Student-designed personalized mousepad featuring an ornate cross emblem surrounded by curved Gothic lettering in iridescent shades of green, purple, pink, and blue on a textured white background. Created in Adobe Photoshop.

DESKTOP DESIGN COLLECTION →

DREAMSCAPES

Twisted Reality | Surrealism

Type:

Advanced Composite

Course:

Level 1

Student-created surreal digital composition inspired by Salvador Dalí and using Photoshop compositing techniques featuring

DREAMSCAPES COLLECTION →

GARDEN TALES

Where Produce Becomes Protagonist

Type:

Storytelling Composite

Course:

Level 1

Student-designed storybook cover featuring original fruit and vegetable characters, creative digital compositing, and custom typography created in Adobe Photoshop.

GARDEN TALES COLLECTION →

BEYOND THE SAVANNA

Tall Trails of the Imagination

Type:

Storytelling Composite

Course:

Level 1

Student-created digital artwork featuring a creatively posed giraffe in an imaginative environment using Photoshop Puppet Warp, compositing, and visual storytelling techniques.

BEYOND THE SAVANNA COLLECTION →

EN POINTE AGAIN

The Ballerina Restoration Project

Type:

Photo Restoration

Course:

Level 1

Student-restored vintage ballerina portrait featuring repaired damage, realistic colorization, and professional Photoshop photo restoration techniques.

EN POINTE AGAIN COLLECTION →

DESIGNED TO INSPIRE

The Power of a Poster

Type:

Visual Communication

Course:

All Levels

Student-designed motivational poster featuring AI-generated imagery of colorful butterflies flying over water at sunset. Text reads, “When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly.” Imagery created in Adobe Express with typography added in Photoshop.

DESIGNED TO INSPIRE COLLECTION →

THE ART OF THE MASK

Silhouette & Layered Illusion

Type:

Advanced Composite

Course:

Level 1

Student Photoshop composition featuring custom clipping masks, layered imagery, and music themed visual design.

THE ART OF THE MASK COLLECTION →

LIFE IN LAYERS

Composing Digital Worlds

Type:

Collage

Course:

Level 1

Imaginative, leitmotif-driven collage featuring varied types and colors of goldfish on a blue gradient background.

LIFE IN LAYERS COLLECTION →

COLOR YOUR WORLD

Gradient Map Transformations

Type:

Adjustment Layers

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Magenta, teal and chartreuse gradient map of a goldfish transformed with Photoshop Gradient Maps to explore color and mood.

COLOR YOUR WORLD COLLECTION →

LAYERED MODS

Exploring Non-Destructive Adjustments

Type:

Adjustment Layers

Course:

Level 1

LAYERED MODS COLLECTION →

WEAR & SHARE ART

Personal T-Shirt & Tote Bag Art to Love!

Type:

Print & Physical Media

Course:

All Levels

Digital fantasy illustration of a slender, stylized eastern-inspired dragon with large feathered wings floating in mid-air. The dragon features a pastel color palette of mint green, light blue, and soft pink, decorated with violet heart patterns on its fur and markings on its chest and legs. It has expressive eyes, curved white horns, decorative pink earrings, dark blue mane tufts, and a long, elegant tail that curls at the bottom into ornate pink and purple frills. The character is set against a soft lavender background patterned with subtle, light purple organic cloud shapes.

WEAR & SHARE ART COLLECTION →

CREATIVITY UNLEASHED

Artists Without Boundaries

Type:

Mixed Media

Course:

All Levels

Student-created original artwork showcasing independent creativity, digital illustration techniques, and personal artistic expression in Adobe Photoshop.

CREATIVITY UNLEASHED COLLECTION →

HOLIDAY GREETINGS

Wicomico Shares the Season's Best

Type:

Community Project

Course:

All Levels

Student-designed holiday greeting card created using digital illustration, painting, typography, and mixed media techniques for the Wicomico County Executive's annual holiday card selection.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS COLLECTION →

INSPIRED BY NATURE

Painterly Perspectives

Type:

Digital Painting

Course:

Level 1

Student-created digital seascape painting completed in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom tablet, custom brushes, layers, and digital painting and blending techniques. The painting is a tropical bay scene showing gentle waves washing onto a sandy beach with faint footprints, backed by lush green coastal mountains under a cloudy sky.

INSPIRED BY NATURE COLLECTION →

DRAWN TO DIGITAL

Foundations in Illustration

Type:

Digital Illustration

Course:

Level 1

Student-created digital illustration of an apple painted in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom tablet, custom brushes, layers, and digital painting techniques.

DRAWN TO DIGITAL COLLECTION →

TAG YOUR WORKSPACE

Mouse Pad Creations

Type:

Print & Physical Media

Course:

All Levels

Student-designed mousepad in graffiti-style using Adobe Photoshop, typography, layer styles and creative brushes.

TAG YOUR PAD COLLECTION →

CARTOON ABSTRACT

Design It → Press It → Love It → Keep It!

Type:

Print & Physical Media

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Student-created abstract character artwork designed in Adobe Photoshop for a custom sublimation tumbler.

ABSTRACT IDENTITY COLLECTION →

WILD IMAGINATION

Rare Species Discovered

Type:

Storytelling Composite

Course:

Level 1

Drift Ice Angel — Student-created fantasy species digital composite with accompanying field notes.

WILD IMAGINATION COLLECTION →

COVER GIRL MAKEOVER

From Ordinary to Extraordinary

Type:

Photo Restoration

Course:

Level 1

Student-designed magazine cover girl featuring a professionally retouched portrait with creative photo enhancements, typography, and magazine-style layout created in Adobe Photoshop.

COVER GIRL MAKEOVER COLLECTION →

THE VISUAL VOICE

Imagery Blends | Design and Messaging

Type:

Visual Communication

Course:

Level 1

Student-created artistic typography composition featuring layered imagery, expressive text, textures, double exposure and Photoshop blending techniques.

THE VISUAL VOICE COLLECTION →

THE ART OF THE COVER

Creative First Impressions

Type:

Collage

Course:

All Levels

Punk-inspired mixed-media sketchbook cover featuring musicians, spiderwebs, spiders, album discs, safety pins, layered photographs, and pink, black, and white typography.

THE ART OF THE COVER COLLECTION →

WHEN WORDS MATTER

Clipping Mask and Text

Type:

Advanced Composite

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Student-created clipping of a fantasy evening sky and the words "Have an Amazingly Glitchy Day" filled with colorful photography.

WHEN WORDS MATTER COLLECTION →

WISH YOU WERE HERE

Dream Destinations

Type:

Storytelling Composite

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Blended composition using two photographs to look like they were taken together based on a vacation theme.

WISH YOU WERE HERE COLLECTION →

DIGITAL KALEIDOSCOPE

Symmetry and Synthesis

Type:

Adjustment Layers

Course:

Level 1

Pink and blue abstract squirrel photo in symmetry arrangement using Photoshop Adjustment Layers to explore color and mood.

DIGITAL KALEIDOSCOPE COLLECTION →

INSPIRED ADJUSTMENTS

16 Ways to Enhance a Photo

Type:

Adjustment Layers

Course:

Exploratory, Level 1

Rich blue and aqua abstract artwork created using Photoshop Adjustment Layers to explore color, tone, and image transformation.

INSPIRED ADJUSTMENTS COLLECTION →

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