Color Scheme & Logo & Blending Options

Color Scheme

 Kuler > Analogous > Base Color: Sky Blue (#33E3FF) Tool used: Lasso Tool

Kuler > Monochromatic > Base Color: Fushia Pink (#FF66A6) Tool used: Brush Tool

Blending Options

normal

These are the three raw pictures that I used

hardlight 40% opacity

saturation 70% opacity

Logo

Adobe Photoshop ft. Tools

Pen Tool (P)

The standard pen tool draws with the greatest precision; the Freedom Pen tool draws paths as if  you were drawing with pencil on paper, and the magnetic pen tool option lets you draw a path that snaps the edges of defined ares in your image. You can use the pen tool in conjunction with the shape tools to create complex shapes. ( source: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-73a0a.html)

Brush (B)

The Brush tool is a basic painting tool. It works like a traditional drawing tool by applying the color using strokes. It's located in the standard Tool Bar and its default shorcut is the letter B.
The Brush tool works by adding a shaped mark on a layer, and if you continue pressing in the mouse button or the pen on a tablet, several marks will be added creating a stroke until you release the pressure. The essential options for the brush tool are: Brush Tip Shape, Blending Mode, Opacity and Flow. You must understand those concepts before moving forward with the advance settings. Photoshop includes several built-in presets, that are in fact pre-made brushed ready to use. (source:  http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/photoshops-brush-tool-basic-guide/ )

Here is an example of my customized brush:

Paint Bucket (G)

The Paint Bucket tool fills an are that is similar in color value to the pixels you click. You can fill an area with the foreground color or a pattern.

Magic Wand (W)

The Magic Wand tool is one of the oldest selection tools in Photoshop. Unlike other selection tools that select pixels in a image based on shapes or by detecting object edges, the Magic Wand selects pixels based on tone and color.

Clone Stamp (S)

The Clone Stamp tool selects and samples a n are of your picture and then uses these pixels to paint over any marks. The Clone Stamp tool acts like a brush so you can change the size, allowing cloning form just one pixel wide to hundreds. You can change the opacity to produce a substitute clone effect. 

Eraser (E)

The eraser is basically a brush which erases pixels as you drag it across the image. Pixels are erased to transparency or to the background color if the layer is locked.

Eyedropper (I)

The Eyedropper tool is used to pick up a color value foorm the canvass. This is a very useful tool because there will be many times when you want to switch colors while painting to a color already on your canvas and you do not want to go all the way through the color chooser dialog.