Assingment 1, the procedures; the postcard itself..

this is the background that i made before (the procedures at the blog below..)

i dragged all of the images that i have editted before (also on the previous blog..) one by one and i dropped shadow on each of it with distance 5 pixels, spread 5% and size 15 pixels. all with the same distance, spread and size..



then i re-editted the arrangement, saved it into psd file format and also jpeg..

and the outcome..

Assignment 1, the procedures; the images

k started with Hari Raya image, first i resized the image smaller, then with pain bucket, i painted the background with white color, then by using rectangular marquee tool, i made the rectangular like polaroid picture and cut the rest. made the caption with text. and i changed the color of the clothes used hue/saturation and and brush to color their clothes.

before

after..

now for the chinese new year image, i just made the color changes used hue/saturation..and also gaussian blur at the back mirror..and yes, i did the same procedure as hari raya before by cutting and caption for the polaroid picture

before..
after...


the deepavali at batu cave..the same method i used for polaroid..but now i applied the tutorial 2 as i used grayscale by brushing certain area..then new layer for the color changes used hue/saturation..

before..

after..

now for the hari gawai image, i used hue/saturation. for the master, just like the tutoraial before, i dragged the saturation to -100..and other red, blue, yellow, green, magentas and also cyans, all of its i changed their lightness a bit..

before..

after...

Assignment 1, the procedures; the background

i chose KLCC as my background image..why? because i think KLCC is the symbol of proud and togetherness for Malaysian..it's just my opinion la..

i changed the picture by using filter then sketch gallery, and i chose photocopy..
went to the stroke below the layer place, clicked on stroke then make some changes to get the border..
created a new layer, then i picked a brush tool, which is special effect brush, that butterflies, placed it at the corner. then new layer again, i chose the text, as the title, Malaysia Truly Asia with brush script std, size 48pt then placed it at the same corner. finished for background..easy rigth..

assignment 1; references images

project charter assingment 1

Project Charter Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Title: Printout Postcard for the theme “Malaysia, Truly Asia”.

Project Start Date: 23 November 2008

Project Finish Date: 28 November, 2008.

Project Manager: Adibah Binti Ali

HP: 0196674154

Email: dibott89@yahoo.com

Website: http://mcg1014-1071113382.blogspot.com/

Project Objective: to promote the outsiders about multicultural in malaysia by creating a postcard that usually attrack the tourists. and also could gain more skills on adobe photoshop to make an image more realistic and attracted.

Approach: to create the postcard, i play around with more variety of colors, blur filter, pen tools, drop shadow, hue/saturation, text, sketch filter and some other things..


Idea
show some multicultural malaysian festivals such as hari raya, chinese new year, deepavali and other i will think later, could be hari gawai or some other festivals that annualy held in malaysia.

Write down how you create the postcard?
with some images that show the multicultural festival; deepavali, chinese new year and hari raya, i combined it as it was a polaroid picture and put captions on each of it.

Using what images?
images using jpeg and bitmap file format that i found on internet.

What tools at Photoshop you use to edit the images?
blur tools, filter then sketch, brush, paint bucket, magic wand, rectangular marquee tool, clone stamp and some other more.

Write here about the idea of your postcard, is it your own Idea or References (if you refer to someone else idea)?
it's my own with some other help. the idea is about the multicultural festivals that annually held in malaysia.

Write clearly on the making process from beginning stage until the final output stage.
1. for the background image, i just used paint bucket to fill the color that i want to. then i decorate with brush tool. put the text 'malaysia truly asia' at the right corner with appropriate color for easily read. every step for the text and the brush i made new layer.
2. i made the polaroid pictures one by one by coloring the background with white then cut it, put some caption.
3. i used the blur tool, moslty are gaussian blur then used it into every picture.
4. saved the postcard everytime i made a new layer.
5. saved it but not flattern it and will make some changes if it's required so.


Roles and Responsibilities:
1. search multicultures image from google and some from my friend
2. start to plan how i want to put the pictures inside the postcard.
3. change a little bit the original picture to make it more interesting.

Comment: it's quite difficult to change some pictures especially the klcc where i have to change it into sketch (for the behind of the postcard). and also hard to find the perfect blur for each image.

tutorial 2: the eye

pressed ctrl+alt+0 for more resolution image.

opened the hue/saturation, clicked on colorize and dragged the hue to 35, saturation to 3o and clicked ok..
with pen tool, selected the path, i drew a path as shown on the image. while the cursor at the path pallet, pressed ctrl key and clicked it. then i went to the channel pallet, and clicked on new channel, now i have an alpha 1. click ctrl+d for deselect and went to the new path to create another path on the eye..and i repeated the same work as i did before. and there is alpha 2. now i have two selection that i made from the path i've made.

clicked the alpha 1 and the clicked on the visibility of RGB, then this image appeared. then set the gaussian blur to 2.5 pixels.

then i selected the alpha 2, but now i have to use lasso tool since the sharpness of both side are different. from the side that i have been selected, i put the gaussian blur to 3.5 pixels.then inverse the selection by press shift+ctrl+i and then clicked ctrl+f twice to make both side blur with different pixels.

Pressed ctrl+d to deselect and select RGB. then clicked ctrl key and click alpha 1, and shift+ctrl + alpha 2 to combine alpha 1 and 2.For undo that, ctrl+alt to minus the part of the alpha 2.For indo, ctrl+alt+shift+alpha 2 for the overlapping area. then i clicked on layer pallet, hue/saturation and made the adjustment and selected any color for the eye..

and finally..

tutorial 2: the model

alright now lets move on to the another image; the model..started with..

i converted the image into the grayscale

the duplicated the gray channel, with new one

undo the grayscale filter for the original image..went to the layer pallete then choose the hue/saturation, just clicked ok.

created another hue/saturation again and this time dragged the saturation to -100, into grayscale back for the original image..and clicked ok. now both of the images are identical.

now, i went back to the hue/saturation layer that i made at the first place, there are editting for colors, ctrl+1 for red, ctrl+2 yellow, ctrl+3 green, ctrl+4 cyan, ctrl+5 blue and ctrl+6 magentas. now i used red first and dragged the lightness to -25..

with ctrl+2 for yellow, the lightness went to -100 so that we can see the blond hair more clearly..

now with ctrl+3, the green with -64

ctrl+4, the cyans with -26

because of the magentas doesnt show any changes, i just skipped that part and went to ctrl+5 for the blue with -91..

then i zoomed in both of the images..

now you can see the differences..right is the normal grayscale and the left is the grayscale that have been editted..

tutorial 2: the fingernails

for tutorial 2, there are 3 images provided

k let start with the fingernail picture..

by using brush and the size of 200, with color mode, black, then i made the above side grayscale in a new layer. i changed the size of brush follow the smaller part; the finger..can include the nail also..
on the path, click the layer on that path and hold the ctrl key at the same time.
then go to the layer, search the hue/saturation..
from the hue/saturation, i changed the color of the sofa..
then by using brush with smaller size, to color the nails, i went back to the hue/saturation and choosed any color that i like for every each of the fingernail.

and the result...