Production Experiments
- 2. Process When starting my Production Experiments, I was told to look up Photoshop tutorials and other program tutorials you may use when making my final product. I stumbled across a you-tuber by the username of 'Rafy A', a Photoshop tutorial channel and came across an interesting image of a little girl holing a light next to a giant tiger. This gave me the idea to create something similar using the same tutorial. Instead of a Tiger I decided to use a Red Panda. the like to the video tutorial is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnUyss yHKY original I used a range of new and different photoshop tools that I've never used before. I started by cutting out the Red Panda with the mask tool which I later refined using the refine mast cool . I then drag and dropped the forest background which I used another new tool the ‘field blue’. The field blur allowed me to create the distorted background look. The next step to creating this experiment was changing the hue/saturation of the red pander to fit the colour of the background, I also then changer the colour balance of the panda. The next step in the process was to apply the dark areas around the panda and girl to give the overall experiment a more realistic look with false shadowing. This was done by applying a radial gradient from transparent to black which I later changed the opacity of. The last new tool I used was the curves function. The curve function allows you to adjust the points throughout the images tonal range. This just mean the total number of tones in the image. After the process of using the tools and functions, the rest of the experiment was just a repeat of old techniques I learned prior and the use of the new tools I developed from this experiment. I think the overall look the this experiment was a success and looks very professional. I would defiantly like to use this same technique when it comes time to create my final product. However at this current point I'm not 100% sure where I can use this. I could make a picture similar using the own images and hopefully match the same genre of my magazine. But ill think about this more when it comes time to create my final project and see how much time I have left at the end of production.
- 3. ProcessMy next challenge was to create a merchandise from existing images. For my experiment, I decided to use the photo of this model where you can see the shading and creases in the top. I also used a google image of one of the virtual members of the band ‘Gorillaz’. I used YouTube Tutorials for all my experiments and I find this the most useful and effective was to developed and learn more techniques. I used a video by the name of ‘Teach Me To Design’ with the link being ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceZfU5lx cI’ The first step when creating a realistic t-shirt is creating a path tool. I’ve never used the path tool before however I found it extremely useful as when using the pen tool, it allows you to save the path as a Jpeg. The next step was to isolate the top from the rest of the body which is quite simple. You can just select the path you already saved and copy it to another layer. Then I had to create a displacement map. A displacement map is a black and white version of the same layer which is later used to apply a texture to it. After creating the displacement map I than applied a gaussian blur, this is to make se that there's not any hard lines or edges to the t-shirt. I then went on to drag and drop the image onto the t-shirt and creating the black and white t-shirt, however I wanted to go further and change the colour of the shirt to green. This was the easiest step in this experiment as all I had to do I select the path I made earlier, create another copy and paint the t- shirt to my desired colour. The final step was to change the coloured t-shirt to an overlay giving it the same texture as before. Depending on time, I would very much like to make merchandise of my own using already existing images and images I may make/take myself. The overall look of the product looks semi professional however if I spent more time of the process of playing around with colour and opacity I think it would’ve looked a lot more professional. All the tools used to create this experiment were all new to me and so I developed more understanding of photoshop and how websites such as red bubble create adverting for the website. This is defiantly something I look forward to learn more about in the future.
- 4. Process For my final experiment, instead of learning new techniques on a program that I already knew a fair few techniques already, I decided to learn an entirely new program to me. This program being Adobe Illustrator. For this I also look to YouTube to find any helpful videos. Very similar to my second experiment, instead of using an already existing image I decided to make my own logo and other assets to my magazine and website. The Youtuber Spoon Graphics with his video ‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzRGm95wiSI’. Taught me how to create this spaceship logo and all the basic and some advanced skills on how to do so. Illustrator is quite similar to photoshop but also very different. I then took these skills and created a few logos of my own which I think turned out pretty well for my first time using Illustrator The first step to creating these logos was create an art bored with the smart guides turned on and selecting the colours I intend to use for my logos. Its quite hard to explain the process of creating these as all the logos were created by using shapes to overlay and cut of the parts that I needed. The body of the rocket was created by making an oval and turning the top and bottom point to corners. Another oval was used to create the outline for the thrusters and using the centre line panel to make sure they’re both centred. I then used the minus front panel tool to cut it out. All the other parts of the rocket were make exactly the same, including the window, smoke and wings. I find illustrator nice and easy to use as it creates minimalistic logos by simply using shapes. I definitely want to use illustrator to create background for my website and maybe my magazine. I really like the layout and tools available in illustrator and ill defiantly come back to it in the future. The overall look of the logos look professional to some degree however I will learn and further my skills in Illustrator at my own time.
- 5. Reflection • What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product? When it comes time to create my final product, I will use a range or techniques and skills I have learnt. However that doesn’t mean I will use the elements exactly the same but use the skills more effectively in my final product. I defiantly will be using Adobe illustrator for my final product, hopefully making my logo, merchandise or page backgrounds as the preferred method. This is because I like how effective something can look only using the shape tool and paint bucket. Furthermore I shall be using the techniques I learn from the first and second experiment. These techniques and tools being: the Hue/Saturation tool, Colour balance, refine mask, overlay and path tool. The use of the Hue/saturation and colour balance will help when it comes time to edit images I have taken myself. These tools will defiantly come in handy when I'm creating my adverts for the merchandise. Alongside the skills in photography and photoshop I have gathered throughout the year will hopefully create a professional looking piece of work.