Sunday, 20 September 2009

There are thousands of outstanding tutorials on the web for Photoshop and Illustrator from which you and I can learn




This is the adaptation of one of them. This is the outside of a bi-fold brochure for Cingular Phones. The logo came from Illustrator. The brochure is duotone. The image was cut around. Stars were shapes in Photoshop. The headings had a stroke placed around them as did the vertical line with the Contact Details. Time taken to produce was around 45 mins (this included reading the tutorial and planning) Colour chosesn was thought to appeal to target audience and gave a feeling of quality.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Welcome

First Lesson
  1. Overview of the course
  2. Kickstart creation of bespoke image library
  3. Backgrounds
  
Camera Skills
  • Macro
  • Preventing blurring
  • Resolution

Second Lesson
  1. Creation of silhouettes for use in different projects
  2. Abstract use...
  3. Reality use of....
 
Silhouettes

1.       Music
2.       Science
3.       Sea
4.       Animals
5.       People
6.       Scottish/Tourism 
Photoshop Skills learned
  • Selection
  • Selection Inverse
  • Selection smoothing
  • Selection Modification: expand, contract
  • Quick Mask Tool for selection
  • Image Resolution 
  • Brush
  • Layers
  • Fill
  • Using curves in changing colour of image