Evaluation

Completed lyrics book

Watercolour

Illustrator Pattern

Squaring up

This is my work in progress and final design shots for my lyrics book using the pixelated or 'squaring up' process. First I had to find a photo on the internet that I wanted to use, turn it black and white, and print it off in the size 8x11cm. Then once I had printed it out, every 1mm all the way around the sides I made a mark and then joined them up to form a grid. I then labelled the squares 1-22 along the top and bottom, and 1-16 along the sides. This is what it looked like.

I then had to draw the grid out in my sketchbook but instead of marking it with 1mm gaps, I did 1cm, so that it was bigger in my book. With a pencil I then shaded in each square corresponding to the colour of the square on the picture. If on the picture it was half black and half white, I would shade it grey, or anywhere in the middle. This is my final design.

6 basic photoshop edits

This is my second '6 basic photoshop edits' post. The previous one was with a photo I found on the internet, this is with a photo I took myself. I created a black and white, hue/saturaton, colourise, layer mask/filter/gradient, light leaks, and levels effects on the 6 pictures. This is my final design.

To achieve this layer mask/gradient/filter effect I first got the photo I took and added the first step of this effect, the filter. I made the whole photo pixelated. I then put a gradient effect on it as you can see from the bottom left to the top right it goes from pixelated to normal.

Then finally to achieve this I added a picture of a bird and I blended it with the picture of the houses by selecting them both and clicking 'overlay' on the drop down menu

photos I have taken for my lyrics book

These are two photos I have taken myself that I am stuck between to use in my song lyrics book next to the lyrics 'I start my day upon the roof, there's nothing like this type of view.'

The first photo is the view straight out of my bedroom window and the second photo is a shot of the arrows flying over our apartment in Torquay.

I prefer the second photo but once I have come to a decision I will pick one of the two photos and then do 6 basic photoshop edits on the photo for my lyrics book.

6 basic photo edits in photoshop

To create 6 basic edits in photoshop I first decided on an image that I would like to use. I then opened it in photoshop, and decided which edit I wanted to do first. I started with the image open and then found different effects to use.

This effect is the hue/saturation effect. To adjust the colour of this photo you select hue/saturation on the drop down menu, then grab and move the line on the graph on the right hand side of the screen and it changes it different colours. You keep moving it around until you are happy with the colour it has produced.

This is the colourise effect. This changes the whole colour of the photo the same colour

This effect is called 'Levels.' It adjusts the dark, medium and light levels within the image. You can adjust how much dark/light the picture has by sliding across the arrows on the graph on the right hand side of the page. 

    This is my final design with all 6 photos together.

Work in progress shots / Final design

first I drew the image for my lyrics book into my sketchbook and then scanned it onto the computer.

then I put it onto photoshop, adjusted the threshold to make it bolder, and then started to play around with the colours until it looked how I wanted it too, using different effects, colours and brushes

This is my final design.

My Final Design

After scanning my pencil drawings onto the computer, I added colour on photoshop and this is my finished design for my lyrics book.

Drawing Tasks

Once we had decided on our song lyrics for our lyrics book we had to create 5 different drawings for the book. one left handed, one from memory, one using a continuous line, one in a shortening time, and one with the paper upside down. 

number 1 was done with the paper upside down

number 2 was done with a shortening time limit

number 3 was done from memory

number 4 was done using a continuous line

number 5 was done left handed