Awareness Magazine – Photography 1

I’ve been out around the college campus taking eco-themed photographs for the background of a fictional Environmental Magazine called “Awareness”.

Photograph 1

This is the first photograph I took. It's a close-up of grass outside the College. I like the vibrant colour of the grass.

This is the edited version. I used the cutout filter and then the colour replacement tool to add a medium shade of green in the middle of the image.

Photograph 2

This is my second photograph. I took it from underneath a tree outside the college. I like the brightness of the sky through the branches of the tree.

I used a pixelated filter to give this an american comic book style. I then decided to use the "watercolour" filter in Photoshop to give the tree feathered edges, I also increased the contrast and brightness slightly. This is meant to represent the excessive cutting down of trees for paper.

 

I cut a section from the original photo using the rectuangular Marqueee

 

 

Photograph 3

I took this photograph in the college carpark. It's a close-up of the exhaust of the car. Mosy people assosciate the exhaust of the car with pollution and smog.

I selected the tire using the Rectangular Marquee tool. I pasted it into a blank image, and increased the contrast. I used the cutout filter, and then used the colour replacement tool to give it a slightly green tone.

This is the second edit from the car rear photograph. This image is symbolising the pollution caused by cars burning fossil fuels. I used an outer glow on the earth to draw attention to it, I also used some grunge brush effects to make it look like the earth is coated in thick smog.

 

Photoshop – Layers.

We worked on a simple exercise today. Creating a face out of assorted fruit and vegetables. This was supposed to teach us how to use layers on photoshop, helping to prepare us for creating a magazine cover.

This is the assorted fruit and vegetables we were given to create a face from.

Guide

 

1. I opened Adobe Photoshop CS3.
2. I then went to File > Open and found “Start.jpg”
3. I then copied the Melon for the base head using the rectangular marquee tool, and pasted it in a new PSD file.
4. I selected the facial fruit I wanted my Melon man to have, and then copied them from the original picture using the same technique as the head, and pasted them onto the head.
5. I arranged the various fruit and vegetables using the move tool. I changed the layer arrangement so the the facial features were overlapping correctly.

 

 

The finished Melon head.

 

 

Completed Redesign

I’ve finished my redesigned book cover and designed a promotional poster to accompany it. 

First of all is my book cover. I went for a simple design, and using a stock photograph from SXC.HU I ended up with this. 

Second is my promotional poster, I focused more on the typography for this to make it eye catching.