This is a recruitment poster for the chess team. It was made by first making a nice purple background for John Bapst. I originally centered my logo on the page, but now it's on the top layer and near the top of the page to make room for Kasparov. I put the picture of Kasparov there to make it seem like one of those old army recruitment posters with Uncle Sam. I just used a transparency layer mask to get rid of the background around Kasparov so he actually looks like part of the poster. I put the nifty captions at the top and bottom, the last one being a pun on the chessboard (in case people don't know, the horizontal rows are called ranks).

It took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to use my logo for and how to do, but finally I saw this picture on the internet, and got a picture of a garage door because the original had some graffiti on it and I wanted to type the text that is now on the left side of the picture. I made the recycling bin before adding it to this picture. I took the bin and added my logo to it then the word 'Recycle'. I put the bin where it is now and created the arrow pointing to it. I had the text in the bottom right of the picture , but it wasn't visible, so I added my logo once again and made the text size smaller.

So, if you don't want your lawn to look like this, come and get one of out totally awesome recycling bins today!

Washburn's Modeling Agency

Alright everyone, I thought I would get a little bit creative.. ish with this one. I started out making the blue background, then I found a picture of some models walking down the runway. After this, I wrote what I'm trying to promote here and then I slapped on my logo. The point of this is simple, This will be the best modeling agency ever! :D After I had finished those steps, I went over to filters and then I went and distorted the shape of the picture. After I had finished with this I went back to filters and then went to artistic and I made the ladies change in the cartoon filter to add more of an effect to the whole advertisement :p That's basically everything I did :p

This ad is for a multimedia printing company. They emphasize taking their client's idea and putting it pretty much anywhere.

For each "image," I had to find the starting picture online and then add the logo to it. In total, I actually had about 5 gimp documents open at once. Once each image had the logo, I had to save it as a png with transparent background and import it into the final ad. When the dimensions of the canvas were set, it was pretty simple just to move around the images to where they needed to go. I added a white background with a light blue gradient; solid white was too boring. The text boxes were simple, as was adding the logo and description. Hope you guys like it. I'm pretty happy with it.

Popenguin Car Insurance Advertisement 2 *High Quality Update*

Okay, so this is my updated 2nd Popenguin advertisement. It is basically the 2nd one, only I added the catchy equation in the middle of the screen. It's supposed to read, "Car plus Popenguin equals money" which I thought would be catchy to the eye as well as convincing to whoever sees the ad. I'm not 100% sure that it fits in with the rest of the ad, but please feel free to give your opinion to make my decision easier.

Crayons, ALL GNU.

This is an advertisement for a crayon company Proseart. It's a pun of Roseart, which might I add, is the crappiest crayon company ever. The crayons would be better as candles, they're so waxy. Anywhom.
For the background, I used gimp and just colored in the roygbiv rainbow colors with a paintbrush. Then I used iWarp to swirl them all around. Then, I created a new layer and made it completely black. I took the eraser tool and erased a lot of the black to make the rainbow show, but still give the illusion of the rainbow background being in the front. Then I added my star from inkscape. For the letters, I just typed them out with white and smudged them slightly to make them more ~swirly~ like the rest of the picture. The slogan comes from the definition of prose, which is "ordinary writing as distinguished from verse."

Off Roading Club

My add is for the the Off-Roading Club. In making this add I used a technique called put on path to make the top banner on a curved line. To make the words on a path you take the pen tool draw a line then you curve the line using that same tool. After you do that you need to put the words you want up, then go to text on the tool bar and pick put on path. After doing that I pasted my logo onto the center of my add. Then wrote about what it was and were it would be using the word art. Then turned it brown to symbolize mud or dirt. Join the Off-Roading Club.