= The Assignment 2 Idea =

Heyya! Here i am again.. :)

Today's job is we have to submit a rough idea for the assignment 2 which I have to get done by Dec 7..! I must do a greeting card, and i can choose any.
Woww...its gonna be interesting, because i choose to do a Valentine's Card, probably because Im in love, hahaha... :D

So, as what I know..Valentine event is full of love, symbolize by heart, flowers, chocolate, bear, red or pink as the important colors, and of course a romantic poetry or love words to complete.

And here are 3 random pictures i picked to illustrate what i am going to do in my work later on..



I submitted my rough idea to the lecturer, n plz wait for my final work. :)

Regards,
Liz.

* The Special Effect *

Ciaooo!!!

I am bacckkk... :D
well, today i'll be continuing my next task as usual..still in the online class, Photoshop technique for today is " The Special Effect ". Just so u know guys, I will do my job today under an option called Filter, so i gotta do special effect on the image by finding it on Filter, they have varieties of amazing effects.

This is the image i picked from 3 images that the lecturer has been given us to choose..



I'll go through the steps to get the special effects as i wanted.., follow me!! :p

1. I apply Lens Blur, Filter -> Blur -> Lens Blur. The following are the option for the boxes ; Faster -> Transparency -> Blur Focal Distance '200' -> Iris 'Square' -> Radius '20' -> Blade curavture '0' -> Rotation '50' -> Brightness '15' -> Threshold '255' -> Noise '0' -> Uniform. See below picture.



2. Choose Artistic -> Paint Daubs. Brush size '3' -> Sharpness '0' -> Dark rough.


3. Pick Artistic -> Film Grain. Fill in only 4 the Intensity, and 0 for the rest.


4. Choose Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the flower part only. Next..copy the part to a new layer.


5.Do Gradient as the image show below. Put 20 for the opacity, and do it for few times until it reaches the color u expect.


6. Edit the layer of a flower part only with Film Grain -> Grain '2' -> Highlight Area '1' -> Intensity '1'. Adding the Brightness and Contrast, Layer -> Adjustment Layer -> Brightness and Conrast -> Brightness '15' -> Contrast -> '25'. Make the a layer of the flower part invisible now.


7. Its Done. This is my final work.




Stay tuned.... :D
Liz.

- The Assignment 1 -

Holaa, there it is...i am stepping into a harder task which is an assignment 1 for the subject, so..what I have to do is creating a digital image as a wallpaper, in the other word i am going to make something like a poster, the theme/event is MMU FOM Open Day dated March 21, 2010. The poster will be showing the characteristics or features of FOM to advertise and to promote their faculty.
These are grading for the assignment :
1. For the idea and message
2. For the use of tools
3. For the quality of the digital image
4. For the creative / imaginative / design of the wall paper

Some requirements :
1. The image / wall paper show focus on the positive aspect on the Faculty. Use photographs ( your own ) or images on the net. Use Photoshop to create the most attractive wall paper of the faculty with colours as well as at the highest and most professional quality possible.
2. NO PRINTOUT necessary. No late submissions. Any late submissions, you will be severely penalise and will get a 0, etc.

Well.., the idea popped out into my mind when I was in the cinema, i thought of making my faculty poster open day will be a bit different because i'll refer to a movie poster and I think a movie poster is made to be really attractive, and its cool! :)
Even though the movie that I referred to was a cartoon, it doesn't mean that I am going to take it as a whole concept, I was taking it only for some simple ideas of my work.

These are all of the steps in the process of making my poster.

1. Create a new document sized to 600px x 800px. Unlock the background layer and fill it with a dark blue color (#091417).



2. Create a new layer, fill it with black, and change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge. Then go to Filter > Render > Fibers. I use 16 for Variance and 4 for Strength.



3. After that, duplicate that layer and move it to the left, I will have two layers, one next to the other. Select both layers, surely that the layers are aligned from the top, and go to Layer > Merge Layers.


4. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, use 10 pixels for the Radius. After that go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic. For the Highlight Strength use 5, and for the Detail and Smoothness use 15.



5. Rotate the layer, say 45ยบ, and Edit > Transform > Warp. Image below for reference.





5. Now let's add more blur. Go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. Let say 72 for the Amount. The Blur Method will be Zoom and the Best Quality.


6. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast. Place the adjustment layer above the light's layer. I use 80% for Brightness and 100% for Contrast.



7. Select the Color Dodge Tool (O). Pick a large brush, 175px Master Diameter, and Hardness 0%. I choose Highlights for the Range, and use 10% for exposure.
Now, just start painting over some areas to highlight them, mainly the brighter area, because the idea here is to intensify the rays of light.
You can select the Burn Tool (O) to burn some areas too. That means if you want to make some areas darker use this tool, it's exactly the opposite of the Color Dodge Tool.



8. Now select the Polygonal Lasso Tool(L) and create a selection like the image below. Then select the Burn Tool and as the brush is really big, it's not necessary to paint directly over the selection, so paint far from the edges just to create a little shadow in the area.



9. Repeat Step 7 and 8 a couple of times until it looks OK.



10. Create a new layer above all of them. Fill it with black, and go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Use for the Amount 10%, for the Distribution use Gaussian, and select Monochromatic.



11. Create a new layer inside the "lights" layer. Select the Brush Tool (B), and go to View > Brushes to change some of the brush settings. After that, just paint some sparks over the image.



12. This is a finishing background.


To be continued with inserting some objects and words....

13. Pick Text > Choose Font " Arial " > Put it at the top " MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY " > Effects Drop Shadow.


14. Write a MMU motto by Font " Courier ".

15. Putting MMU logo in the middle , and continued by FOM OPEN DAY, MMU mascot, TM logo, etc. Sentences effects are the same thing applied as step no.13 .

16. DONE. :)

YEAY!! Submitted Work... :)



PS: I am sorry if the picture for explaining the steps are too small and it couldnt be seen really clear, please click the image and u'll find the bigger size of it. Thanks.. ^_^

CIAO!!

[ The Old Photograph ]

Here I am in the 2nd week of the trimester, it gets to be a lil bit rush because it is a short semester, so u should catch up quicker with things in school.

Well..coming back to another skill that we have to learn in The Photoshop today, my task is retouching an old photograph..
This is an image that i have to do a surgery for today's mission.. :D




This is a finishing work.



This is a comparison between the 2 images..



And, the last one is a work which i'll submit..



There are 6 steps, my name, ID num, and a blog address that i write in my image, because the lecturer wants us to mention it along with the image.

I'll write back what i am mentioning in the steps that I have ...

1. I've done the frame by cropping it, n put it into separate layer.

2. Smoothing and fixing the hideous frame, by clone stamp tool and healing brush tool.

3. Paste the old photo into separate layer.

4. Fixing the surface of the image which almost torn by using the close stamp tool, healing brush tool, and patch tool .

5. Putting back the frame and the image on the white canvas.

6. Change the contrast and brightness of the photo by using sharp filter.

7. Adding some blur effect using the blur effect.

8. DONE.


With Love!!
Liz.

--> The Computer Face <--

It was the first week of this semester, and second class of Computer Graphics 2!
I've done Computer Graphics 1 in the previous semester, i learned about Illustrator back then, it was interesting..and we gained some experiences from the class, n i am glad to have done it with a good mark. I'll show some of the images I've illustrated from the last semester.

Well..in this 2nd tutorial, I had an exercise which carry 5% of my overall mark! The task was designing a face with computer components.

This is my work ..



After i saw some of my fellow classmates works on the discussion board, i thought mine was way too simple, hehe..
Well, that's fine! i'll work it out for the next time! as far i was kinda satisfy because it represented what i wanted to do :)

The picture combines :
1. Eyebrow = Black telecom cable
2. Eyes = Webcam
3. Nose = Mouse
4. Mouth = White USB cable


These are some of the pictures from the Illustrator class..



Above images are my name's logo!





Above image is a graffiti illustrator " a word for youth "!
I made mine by using Arabic letters, It means FREEDOM, annd i'd like to apply my graffiti on the one of the Faculty Of Engineering wall. :)

With Love!!

^ The Photoshop ^

Holaa!! This is my 2nd blog for a subject under my syllabus of my degree in this semester, and im so interested to discover bout it, because i am going to learn about The Photoshop! :)

Well..i've used Photoshop before, but not too good on it..obviously never made a powerful artworks, hehe..
But i generally know that it has such a power in the commercial field..

That's why I called it " The Photoshop, a power of digital surgeon !! "
why do i say so ?
Coz i think Photoshop is one of the powerful tool to convince people by images or pictures, u can make an extraordinary picture, it is simply a surgery that u do in ur image, by the surgeon..u might fix everything as u wanted it to be, u can make any images that u want to translate to, and so many more!!
Doesn't it sound cool ?
Me myself say YES. ;)

I hope i'd learn a lot of great experience and knowledge from the class, lecturer, n fellow classmates.

CHEERS!! :)