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Workshop 3 – The Image

I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the fish so I could delete it from my background. This is a very basic form of selecting which is quick and easy, but won’t be very accurate.

To delete the fish and not leave a gap in my work i changed the contents to Content-Aware so it would take in its surroundings and fill it with the same colours to make it look more natural.

The Spot Healing Tool also as the same effect but just on a smaller scale and is for my specific things like blemishes and imperfections in the image.

To edit your photo to the correct filter you want go Image>Adjustments>Curves to get the right brightness and darkness, shadows and highlights which you are wanting to enhance your photo.

I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select me from my original image and deleted the background. The Magnetic Lasso clings to prominent outlines and guesses what you are wanting to outline to make it easier for you to select specific things. I then added a layer and placed a new photo of a field on it. I then placed this new layer below the layer with me on so I would appear over the field image.

This is the Eraser Tool, I used it to remove stray hairs and other bits of background from my image of me. This helped me blend more into my new background therefore making it look more real rather than just being cropped in.

The Burn Tool is used to realistically darken specific chosen parts of your image by slightly darkening the original hue. I used this tool to make me look more tanned, to add some realistic shadowing and to darken the background and bottom of my image to suggest that the photo was taken on flash.

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Workshop 2 – InDesign: The Spread

Post author By lily stocks
Post date 20th Dec 2019
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This workshop introduced how to create spreads and how to create an effective spread and the importance of keeping a theme or aesthetic through out the spread and spreads following. I began by making a single page document in InDesign then adding a page to make 2 pages next to each other which is then a ‘spread’. I began recreating this spread by David Wild from Rolling Stone on Alanis Morissette.

I used a grid to get create a more clean finished and accurate outcome for this spread.

I used these Type tools to get the text accurately spaced and sized especially the Tracking tool (VA). I used the font Epitaph-Regular to recreate this outcome.

The spread has a muted colour palette with a more vivid burnt orange hue in the photography which makes it stand out and emphasises it as the focal point. The colours work well together and can be seen throughout the whole spread which makes it effective because then it gives it a consistent theme and feeling towards the spread as a whole. Due to all of the typography being the same font and the colours all being nearly the same colour this continues this feeling of consistency, however the higgledy-piggledy placing and sizing of the text brings some more depth and excitement to the spread.

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Workshop 1 – InDesign: The Grid

Post author By lily stocks
Post date 18th Dec 2019
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Using grids to get more accurate and professional outcomes.

To set up a grid it’s Layout>Create Guides>then you pick the amount of rows and columns you want and also choose the gutter amount(space between rows and columns). For this outcome I used 12rows x 12 columns and with a gutter width of 4mm.

I started with the sample work which I was recreating

I used the Colour Theme Tool to pick up the colours used within the art so I could use accurate colours in my recreation.

The Colour Theme Tool, instead of just picking up one colour like the Eye Dropper Tool, it picks up selections of colours it can see to make a theme for your work.

The grid I based my work around. It helped me create straighter more accurate lines and shapes and helped me proportion things better.

I used basic shapes and drawing easy tools to copy the original piece.

Rectangle Tool was used to create the thicker lines and when you press the shift key as you’re scaling it, it creates a perfect symmetrical square.

Ellipse Tool used for the circles. Because the circles were the same scale in places I just copied them using the Alt button on my keyboard.

Line Tool used to create the lines, I made sure I followed the guides to get the lines the same space apart and in the correct place.

Pen Tool was used to create the shape of the triangles and the irregular 4 sided polygon at the bottom. It also allowed me to make the wiggly lines at the top.

The outcome of the shapes when the guides are hidden. You can preview what your outcome will look like without all the extra guides by going View>Grids & Guides>Hide Guides, and at the same time View>Overprint Preview.

The final product when I’ve added text