Despite the terrible drawing, these three images I found gave me ideas for the layout and design that I could possibly focus on during the creation process of my Dynamic Freeze poster. I was looking for interesting and unique images with energy and a certain "wow factor" that would make someone stop to look at it, which is what I hope the end result of the poster will have. The first image was taken from a music video I had seen, and as written, features a woman with a dramatic look. The second, I found when browsing online. I really thought the neon stripes were very different, and made an interesting shape when put against a black background. The third and final image was taken from a live photo of a band I listen to, and I thought the harsh lighting brought an energy and vibrance to the image with a simple silhouette in the center, and I thought this could be highly effective in the poster design.
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Dynamic Freeze Logo
Today I drafted some logo ideas for the Dynamic Freeze poster competition. I tried to incorporate a lot of sporty designs with a lot of colour to project energy. So far I like the bottom two and the 3D block design on the right the most, however I do also like the logo featuring the 3 black rectangles with the pink font, as it gives the logo a "neon" feel.
Wednesday 3 October 2012
Liquify
For the last part of today's lesson I used liquify. I took a picture of Paris Hilton posing in a swimsuit and altered her body drastically, making her look a lot bigger and disfiguring her face. I also used pucker and bloat.
Colour Replacement Tool (2)
I took a picture of Nancy Spungen and imported it into Photoshop. The picture was already black & white so I didn't need to change it. Then I went into the colour replacement tool (off of the paint brush) and began colouring her lips, hair, and sweater. I struggled with the hair the most as it was very light and blended in with the background. As with the lips I was not sure where to stop due to the shadowing. However I think I learned a lot with this tool and would like to do more.
Colour Replace
I gave (half) the Simpson family dark skin with the colour replace tool in Photoshop, and also changed their house in the process. I also made their dog yellow, giving him a "Simpson" look. It was very interesting to play around with this tool, and the cut picture really shows the contrast between the original and edited photo.
Photoshop Adjustments
Today I learned how to use quick adjustment filters in Photoshop to change the look of a certain photo we chose from National Geographic. I primarily used the curves and levels filter, then expanded out to use hue/saturation, channel mixer etc. These are all the different outcomes I had when using different filters. My favourite is the hue/saturation photo, because it totally changes the feel of the photo, which was originally quite warm and colourful and now looks as if it could be taken in the snow.
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