Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Cropping an image to change the perspective


The Crop tool has a perspective option that I didn't notice before. So I'm redoing this to make use of it this time.



Learning Task 6 | Making Selections / Removing Artefacts


Links to the other files I used:
http://bogdanici.deviantart.com/art/Post-apocalyptic-train-depot-186386859
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007_Audi_R8_Wheel.JPG

Monday, April 28, 2014

Learning Task 5 | Adjustment Layers

Photo taken in sunlight at high noon

Edited in Photoshop to give it more brightness, contrast, vibrance and saturation. This one was easy to make more bold and colorful, as it had a lot of color and contrast in it to begin with. So there was little change that needed to be made with saturation, but its much more effective.



Photo taken in low light

Edited in Photoshop to give it brightness and contrast, and adjust the vibrance/saturation levels. This one was hard to alter while keeping it realistic and natural, as it has very flat colors and not a lot of contrast to begin with.



Learning Task 4 | Cropping an Image


Cropped to emphasize part of the image and dominate the heirachy


Cropped to make a horizontal image vertical

Cropped to Change the composition and add dynamic movement by moving the subject out of dead center





Cropped to change the compostion so it reflects The Rule of Thirds



Cropped to change the perspective by taking an exaggerated perspective photo and make it straight

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Digital Imaging Task 1 (Resizing Images)

Here's a photo I took of some Cybermen that I chose to use for this. It's already automatically saved as a .Jpeg on my camera. It's a bit big in its original size though, so this might be a hard blog to read.

Details on the file size (2.04 Megabites)

Details on size (4000x3000 pixels)


Edited and resized version of the original (1000x750 pixels)




Friday, April 18, 2014

Design Process Assignment


Jamey Hedgehog
18/04/14
2014 Certificate III Media CUF30107 - Design Module

For my assessment project, I decided I wanted to make a logo and a poster for a movie. So part of my research was looking at movie posters, some of them satirical. I want to take what I've drawn recently as a basis for a made up movie.
My first source of inspiration comes from a Strong Bad Email about Independent movies, satirizing them and comparing different kinds of films and genres. One is an abstract, art film about nothing, another is a boring family film about a quirky, disfunctional family, and another one is a a sci fi action movie. (which is a far superior genre to the other two)
http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/independent










STRONG BAD: {voiceover} The title of the movie is either two of the cleverly named main characters, or the city and state in which it takes place. Ooh, in fact, just call it "city comma state".






STRONG BAD: an indie film's plot is pretty much the same as any summer blockbuster, but just switch out any mention of the word "space" with the word, "small factory town", replace "aliens" with "quirky, dysfunctional family", And replace "voyage" with... "journey".

To complete my research, I needed some more info on movie posters before I could know what kind of logo design to aim for that fits well with the images I've got and the kind of movie I'm trying to advertise.
How to design posters: 10 pro tips:
http://www.creativebloq.com/print-design/how-design-poster-pro-tips-7133634
7 Elements of a great movie poster design:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/02/7-elements-of-a-great-movie-poster-design/
This from http://purplered.com/hello/?p=390:


And this from my google search:

 I don't know who made it, but the exact link is http://imgur.com/NUWSXfx
This from http://thelogocompany.net/blog/infographics/psychology-color-logo-design/:




This from http://inspirationfeed.com/resources/tools/20-after-effects-templates-inspired-by-action-movies/:
 





For my logo design, the name I chose for it was Quills of Steel. The name represents a madeup action/romance movie about hedgehogs for my logo and poster designs to be about.
Here's my Mindmap I made for this project:


And here's three sketched out designs in pencil:
 
Blog post: http://jameythehedgehog.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/logo-designs.html
For feedback, I took them to the Cert III forums in the Design section (http://ddmstudy.com/mod/forum/view.php?f=417) and this is what was said:







And:
 
(From another forum)
The final design of my logo:
 

In response to this part of the assignment:
 
My logo uses only subtle amounts of red and blue, but it's not really neccessary to see them in full color. So here's what it looks like in black and white:



  Sketched out ideas for what the poster should look like
For my poster, I found a font online (http://www.dafont.com/sf-movie-poster.font) and a project from last year that involved photography and drawing.