Tuesday 26 February 2013

Apple Logo Practice


This image was edited in Illustrator 

Before


After



What?
We learned about pen tool in Illustrator.  




Where?
It was in the class with everyone but the edition at the end was performed individually so the after image was design and the edition was chose by me.
Who and When?
Apple logo image was edited after Jamie demonstrated about pen tool and also about illustrator as everyone were new to the software.
Why?
To learn how to create vector graphic images which is very useful tool in our work, firstly because in the DVD cover and CD cover there is a need to have a vector image. Secondly the covers have a very large resolution therefore the images will be stretched meaning the pixels will be isolated if it is a bitmap. For this reason vector graphics image is used.


How?
After importing the image into illustrator we locked the layer of the actual image so it does not get effect by the editions. Secondly, a new layer was added which we used to get the shape of the apple logo using the pen tool. It took very long time as the logo was curvy which the pen tool has to be adjusted by yourself. However once the shape is made using the pen tool then the inside of it can be transformed in any colour you want. Thirdly, a graphic design was chosen in the graphic styles on the left hand side of illustrator. The design I choose was flower and leaf patters which were laid all over the apple logo and the appearance I kept it as blue. This is because leafs represent vegetable and apple is also a vegetable there for I kept them linked. The appearance which is in colour blue which also represent the logo of Apple as most of them are in sky blue colour.


Finally, the last touch was performed on the transparency which is underneath the graphic style on the left hand side. The transparency which I choose was ‘screen’ as this kept the nice shadow coming from the top right hand side of the original apple logo.
The result you can see in the after image.





Tuesday 19 February 2013

Healing brush tool


There were three different images which were used to get know the Photoshop software. The below three sections have put through to describe how the images were edited from the original photo. The three pictures were desert, Ian Mckellen and a teenage girl face.    
1. Desert
Before  

After







What?
We learned patch tool which deletes the objects in one image such as mobile, cars and people.   

 Where?
It was in the class with everyone.  

Who and When?
This picture was edited when Jamie was demonstrating about Photoshop’s patch tool . 

Why?
To learn how to delete an object within the image this can be anything such as car for this practice. Moreover this practice was important as for our DVD cover and the CD cover. This is because covers will be involving pictures from internet which we might need some parts of it and patch tool is the best tool for this as it can remove the exact object we want.     
How?
Firstly we got the picture from VLE and as a practice we wanted to delete the car on the left. Secondly, we used the patch tool which can be accessed by just clicking (J) and it is located at the 7th icon down in the left banner on the screen. As the left car needed to be deleted we went around it including its shadow. This however gave us an object which can be drag and be replaced with the other part of the whole image. For example the car was an object in the desert image and the area around it had desert which looked very similar so the car object was just moved towards the left so the tool can replicate the area on the car. The result shows in the ‘after’ image at the top that the car from the original image has been taken out but still the image looks untouched.
 


2.       Ian Mckellen 
                                                                                Before



 After  





What?

We learned about healing tool which is located in the pact tool (J)


Where?
In class with everyone after the desert picture.

Who and When?
This picture was edited when Jamie was demonstrating about Photoshop’s patch tool in which we had to use healing feature for Ian image.

Why?
To learn how to delete all the marks on the face of a person i.e. making an old person look a bit younger by fixing all the wrinkles on their face. This again is a very useful tool to my project as if there are any pictures which involves any face edition for my actors as healing tool does not only make someone look younger but also edits any kind of spots or marks which appear on the face. This however makes the face more like a model and for this reason it is called healing tool.

How
The first process i.e. the location of the image was same as the desert picture which is VLE. Once the picture was saved to our area or any of the devices we imported to Photoshop which meant we didn’t had to fiddle about with the settings of the page i.e. width and the height. Thirdly, using the path tool (J) for keyboard shortcut in which it had another feature which was called healing tool. This however helped me to edit all the marks and wrinkle on the face of Ian. The process was by clicking alt on keyboard which gives a selection tool to select the area which you want to copy and paste it after. After this you go over the marks with the mouse which generates the area which you selected previously using the alt key. It took long time for me to do as there were many marks but at the end the result was good and you can see it in the after picture.
3. Teenage girl
Before


After 
What?
We learned about spot healing brush tool which is located in the pact tool (J).
 Where?
In class with everyone after the Ian picture.  
Who and When?
This picture was edited when Jamie was demonstrating about Photoshop’s patch tool in which we had to use spot healing feature for young girl.  
Why?
To learn how to delete all the marks on the face of a person i.e. making an old person look a bit younger by fixing all the wrinkles on their face. This again is a very useful tool to my project as if there are any pictures which involves any face edition for my actors as healing tool does not only make someone look younger but also edits any kind of spots or marks which appear on the face. This however makes the face more like a model and for this reason it is called healing tool.
To learn how to delete the spots on the face of the person i.e. making the face look like a model. Alongside the healing tool this spot healing tool is also useful as it is specially designed to fix all the spots which a person has on their face. This is indeed very useful as for media purpose, there is a need of attraction at eye catching as many people will be looking at the images over internet, newspapers etc. therefore the masses would not like if the image contains any marks or wrinkles as this would be classed as unprofessional.
How?
The first process started by importing the image from the folder which I saved the others i.e. desert and Ian image. As soon as we opened the image we used the spot healing feature in patch tool. Secondly, we were trying to delete all the marks and spots which were easily to be seen as this would make my work easier as the bigger work been done on the image and what I will be left with are those which are very hard to see. Therefore to get all the small marks off from the face of this young teenage girl we had to zoom in from the original image and using the spot healing brush we had to right click from the mouse on the spot or the marks after choosing spot healing brush. This however made all the spots and marks disable. There were loads of marks and few spots on the face of the young girl however the spot healing tool made it very easier and after all the hard work the result came that most of the face looked like a model face. The result you will be able to see in the before and after image. 

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Tulip edition

    After 





The before image was the original image which Jamie Myland (teacher) gave us from the VLE and then told us to edit it on Photoshop together as a class. Therefore the after image is the one which I ended up with after all the hard work

What?
We learned about Hue/saturation.
Render – clouds

Where?
It was in the class with everyone but at the end everyone had different editions to the image as there was so much in the hue and saturation tool which can be used.

Who and When?
This picture was edited when Jamie was demonstrating about Photoshop key feature which was hue and saturation.

Why?  
To learn how to change the colour of the original image into a different one using the Hue and saturation tool and alongside learning just about colours of the tulip, because the picture included a sky, there is a special tool in Photoshop which can change the colour of the sky but keep its original design which is in filter>render and then clouds.

How?
Firstly, every photo which is taken either by a digital camera or by mobile phones it has pixels to it. Therefore what hue and saturation does is changes the colour of the pixels using its RGB (Red, Green and Blue) colour feature and as a result i was able to change the colours of the tulips from yellow to pink. However I was also able to change it to different colour i.e. green red but i choose to look a bit more different from other therefore i decided to choose Pink colour. 




Thursday 7 February 2013

Movie Poster


Hi everyone, on the 5th of February a movie poster was a task to be created which was to be finished by 07th of February. The picture above is the finish task. The main leading actors which I chose to put on the poster were Sylvester Stallone to make him as a thief and on the other was the police which was given to The Rock. To create the poster it took me 12 layers in which the two of them were text and the other were images which were taken from Google web search.

The Desert picture which is my background of the poster is because to link it with the movie name which is ‘Game’ and the actual game in the movie will be about racing cars. Therefore the car for the police i.e. The Rock and Stallone (thief) are given sports to put an extra weight on the theme of the movie. Moreover, to be very specific with the theme of the movie the summer design have been put on the top left and right which got changed into white colour to give it a brighter look. This will be more eye-catching and hence it will attract people to read the movie name which is in between the design. It is the finish poster and hope you all like it J