Tuesday 23 July 2013

VC day 10

We have been doing research and sketches for our upcoming CA,
which is to do a corporate brochure.
Now that we are more familiar with InDesign, it's easier for us to do it and lesser mistakes were made as we were doing it.

Here are some examples of what we did today:
I felt that my brochure wasn't good enough because it doesn't looks good but turns out the lecturer was fine with it!
I had to touch up on some of the things though!
Some covers that we were told to do.

Oh and we got back our previous CA today.
Just passed but I actually expected it because I know I didn't put in much effort to complete the work.
But no one told me that there were things I wasn't supposed to do so I felt kind of upset about it.
But it's ok!
I told myself I'll work hard for the brochure CA and get an A to pull my grade up (:

Tuesday 9 July 2013

VC day 9

We started off last week with learning more things from photoshop and here are some visuals.
It was pretty tough as more things were introduced and some of the steps were quite complicated and I think a lot of us weren't really able to catch up.
But still we managed to pull through the lesson and here are some of the end products!
Cropping and pasting the animals on the background.
We were taught to use to feather and shadow tool to make the animals look "real" and one cool thing was the cutting of the polar bear's leg to make it look like it's submerged in the water.
 Changing the colour of the water and adding more fish and water plants.
Mine looks a bit fake though :P
This is so cool because we can create our own poloraid and make it look real.
However, I spent quite some time on this because I wasn't able to crop it well as the picture just becomes blur whenever it is minimised.
But thanks to my friend, I was able to achieve this end product!
With the 'Multiply' tool, we are able to make it as though the car's wallpaper is Hello Kitty and crumpled as shown above.
Now I know the trick and if people were to post this online, it might be 80% fake!
We can even make all the old and yellow photos become new!
Now we don't even have to think of throwing all the old photographs away and feeling regretful!
Just photoshop them and they're good as new!

Below are some of the things we learnt today!
Creating a pattern as the background.
  Cropping the woman and placing her picture onto the beach.
The homework that we were supposed to do.(placing 3 things onto 1 background)

Introduction to InDesign, which is needed for our next CA as we are supposed to come up with a corporate brochure.
This will help get us ready for the CA, but I think it's too much for us to handle in 1 day because most of us are still stuck at Photoshop.
Also the words are unclear and I'm not sure how to make them look nicer.
However, I'll try my best and listen attentively the next lesson!(: