Friday, 19 October 2012
19/10/12 Lesson three
Today we were shown an example Photoshop image of a 'Keep Out' sign that Jon created for his bedroom door. The aim of the class today is to make our own door design using various images that Jon uploaded to the myUCA website, and other images that represent us.
The images we were given to use are the three images to the left and the one above to the right. We opened Photoshop with the standard settings, film/video, square pixels/widescreen, this means that we can see the guidelines. We then opened all of the image files Jon uploaded onto Photoshop and added the Wood as the background layer to act as the door. From practicing with Photoshop at home i feel like i have learnt a lot in the last three weeks and felt comfortable enough to go ahead of the class and find other images that i could include, e.g. other signs and some nuts and bolts maybe a coffee cup stain and other textures that could be really interesting.Techniques that i have learnt in this lesson : Drop shadowing. fx at the bottom of the tool bar and scroll down the list until you get to Drop shadow, you can then play around with the height and depth of the shadow and the intensity of the colour.
This is a image of the one i created in class but I DON'T LIKE IT. Its too manly, so i am going to recreate another one which is more girly and me.
12/10/12 Lesson two
(i forgot to press publish)
Like last week we were doing Photoshop exercises today which was extremely welcome due to my lack of computer skills. Our first task was to open and download a file from the UCA website and put it on our desktop. We had to open the file and import it onto Photoshop. The file was a image of some fruit and vegetables and a cutting board.
Like last week we were doing Photoshop exercises today which was extremely welcome due to my lack of computer skills. Our first task was to open and download a file from the UCA website and put it on our desktop. We had to open the file and import it onto Photoshop. The file was a image of some fruit and vegetables and a cutting board.
The main aim of the day was to rearrange the image above, but the images out and rearrange them onto the cutting board. Jon went through various techniques that we could use of Photoshop to do this. I decided that i would use the magic wand tool to delete most of the background and then the magnetic pen tool and the other pen tool. I was actually really happy with myself as i managed to actually do what was asked with out asking too many questions. This is what i came up with.
I am sure they will be many people out there that are complete whizzes of Photoshop and think what i did is a bit naff but i'm really happy with the outcome. I am feeling more and more confident every week and i am looking forward to next Friday for my next lesson!
Sunday, 7 October 2012
First Photoshop tutorial
Thursday, 27 September 2012
27/9/12 Lesson 1
This morning we were introduced to the projects that we would be participating in, in the up coming months. For the first half of this unit we will be learning the fundamentals of Photoshop, After Effects and Final Cut Pro. We will be learning how each of these software tools relate to one another and when it is best to use each tool. We have been given a brief which has been designed so that we experiment with the different tools which will give me a interesting and exciting insight into the makeup of my first year at Farnham Animation.
During the unit introduction we were given an important, interesting, influential person in which we have to use a range of resources to gain a thorough research into out individual and identify key facts about their life, works, influences, background etc. My aim is to create a factual animation that will best inform everyone of my chosen individual. I want it to be exciting and eye catching to encourage my other colleagues to do their own research into my chosen individual.
The important, interesting influential person that i picked out is Georgia O'Keeffe; a compelling American artist from the twentieth century. O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887 and longed to be an artist from an early age. O'Keeffe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and a year later went on to study at the Art Students League of New York, where her work was well received. O'Keeffe for a short time abandoned the art world to pursue other careers and briefly worked as a commercial artist in Chicago and soon after moved to Texas to teach. O'Keeffe began to re-enter into the world of painting in 1915 after taking classes at the Teachers College of Columbia University in South Carolina.
Two years on she met Alfred Stieglitz a photographer and gallery owner who later became O'Keeffe's husband. For twenty years the couple worked together and in this time O'Keeffe created her most famous pieces, the rich overpowering flowers on large canvasses and the understated beauty of her cityscape's.
A trip to Toas, New Mexico in 1929 altered the course of O'Keeffe's life. Each summer O'Keeffe returned to Toas to paint the open skies and gorgeous landscapes and in 1946 when Stieglitz tragically passed away O'Keeffe took up permanent residence there.
Between the 1950's and 1960's O'Keeffe traveled around the world where news of her work spread and her fame grew rapidly; O'Keeffe was later labelled as one of the most important and influential American Painters. Unfortunately in 1971 O'Keeffe's vision deteriated and she withdrew herself once again from the art world. Two years on when she returned to work she was encouraged by a man called Juan Hamilton, a young ceramic artist to take up her paint brush and restart her sculptures. O'Keeffe wrote her autobiography, 'GEORGIA O'KEEFFE' which became a best seller and O'Keeffe actually illustrated the while book.
In March 1985 O'Keeffe passed away at St Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 98. Georgia O'Keeffe's work represents the new beginning for American art, and her work remains and will still remain prominent part of the international art world.
During the unit introduction we were given an important, interesting, influential person in which we have to use a range of resources to gain a thorough research into out individual and identify key facts about their life, works, influences, background etc. My aim is to create a factual animation that will best inform everyone of my chosen individual. I want it to be exciting and eye catching to encourage my other colleagues to do their own research into my chosen individual.
The important, interesting influential person that i picked out is Georgia O'Keeffe; a compelling American artist from the twentieth century. O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887 and longed to be an artist from an early age. O'Keeffe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and a year later went on to study at the Art Students League of New York, where her work was well received. O'Keeffe for a short time abandoned the art world to pursue other careers and briefly worked as a commercial artist in Chicago and soon after moved to Texas to teach. O'Keeffe began to re-enter into the world of painting in 1915 after taking classes at the Teachers College of Columbia University in South Carolina.Two years on she met Alfred Stieglitz a photographer and gallery owner who later became O'Keeffe's husband. For twenty years the couple worked together and in this time O'Keeffe created her most famous pieces, the rich overpowering flowers on large canvasses and the understated beauty of her cityscape's.A trip to Toas, New Mexico in 1929 altered the course of O'Keeffe's life. Each summer O'Keeffe returned to Toas to paint the open skies and gorgeous landscapes and in 1946 when Stieglitz tragically passed away O'Keeffe took up permanent residence there.
Between the 1950's and 1960's O'Keeffe traveled around the world where news of her work spread and her fame grew rapidly; O'Keeffe was later labelled as one of the most important and influential American Painters. Unfortunately in 1971 O'Keeffe's vision deteriated and she withdrew herself once again from the art world. Two years on when she returned to work she was encouraged by a man called Juan Hamilton, a young ceramic artist to take up her paint brush and restart her sculptures. O'Keeffe wrote her autobiography, 'GEORGIA O'KEEFFE' which became a best seller and O'Keeffe actually illustrated the while book.
In March 1985 O'Keeffe passed away at St Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 98. Georgia O'Keeffe's work represents the new beginning for American art, and her work remains and will still remain prominent part of the international art world.
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