Steven Husband

Monday, 11 April 2011

Tyre track brush for photoshop

Here is a tyre track brush from brusheezy i downloaded this one because my magazine is an eco car magazine, if you look below you can see evidence of the brush on my front cover .....

Here is evidence that i have downloaded and used font from Da-font.com this is a very easy procedure but will encchnace and profesionalise my final product, i choose to use the font "AMITY JACK" becuase it fits in with my magazine and is big and bold which helps to capture the audiences attention.

Quick and easy color correction

I will start off with the disclaimer that I did NOT come up with this method... the genius who did is named Dave Cross and he is a photoshop MASTER.

I will walk you through first finding the midtone gray in any image, then the super simple way to color correct with just one click! :)

Step 1: Open the image that needs correction. As you can see, this photo has a strong pink cast (from my dd's pink curtains). Click the icon at the bottom of the layers palette to create a new blank layer.

Step 2: Click on the rectangular marquee tool and hit Ctrl+A (Cmd+A on a Mac) to select the entire photo.

Step 3: Right-click inside the selected area, choose "Fill" and choose "50% gray" from the drop-down. This will (you guessed it) fill your layer in with 50% gray.

Step 4: Change the blend mode on the gray layer to Difference. This of course does absolutely NOTHING good for your photo but don't worry, it's only temporary!

Step 5: Click the icon at the bottom of the layers palette that looks like a half black/half white circle (create new fill/adjustment layer) and choose "Threshold" from the menu.

Step 6: Slide the slider under the histogram in the Threshold box that pops up all the way to the left (this will make everything white), then slowly move the slider back to the right. The first areas that turn black as you move the slider back to the right are the midtone grays.

Step 7: Now we will mark a neutral gray spot so we can remember where it was. Choose the color sampler eyedropper from the tool palette (it is under the regular eyedropper). Make sure "3x3 average" is chosen at the top of the screen too. Then click your dropper directly on your photo on one of the black spots you revealed with the Threshold layer. This puts a little "marker" on the spot (don't worry, it will go away after you are done), it's just to remind you where the gray is.

Step 8: Holding down your Ctrl (or Cmd) key, click to highlight both the threshold layer and the gray fill layer and then click the trash can icon in the layers palette to delete them. They have served their purposes and we are done with them now.

Step 9: Go into Curves (Ctrl or Cmd + M) and choose the middle gray eyedropper. Now click on the spot on your photo where you marked the midtone gray earlier. Voila! Like magic the color cast disappears and the colors are MUCH more realistic and accurate now!

If you are using Elements and don't have Curves, you can also do the last step in Levels (Ctrl or Cmd + L) and use the gray eyedropper there.

I know it sounds like a lot of steps but honestly once you've done it a time or two it goes really quickly

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

adding a texture to a photo

Textures are cool, fun, and can take an otherwise "blah" photo and turn it into a work of art! Beware, they are addicting! ;)

Monday, 28 March 2011

Weekly Production Monitoring Blog

At the start of every week you need to create a new post titled ‘Production Monitoring Blog’ – with today’s date on.

It’s also advisable to upload screen dumps of how your work is evidence progression.

Discuss the following points in your blog using the following headings:

Progress:

Last week I got one with my double page spread both with planning and doing i had to restart an article which was fully complete as the content did not relate to the rest of my magazine. This slowed me down but i have now again nearly finished the double page spread again haven’t learnt any new technical skills

Targets:

I have to get my photos took and begin to conduct my front cover and finish my double page spread. I am getting my photos took today then I will have to work hard in this week’s lessons to make sure it is all finished. I will be using various photo shop techniques.

Contingencies:

I could of encountered various problems through the week for example loss of memory stick this would be a problem as i save everything on this, if this happened I w would have to try my best to find it and if not start again. To avoid this happening i now back my work up on the college computers. Also things like power cuts this would be out of my control but i would save my work regularly

Monday, 21 March 2011

Pictures to go with weekly production monotoring blog 21/03/11

weekly production monitoring blog 21/03/11

Weekly Production Monitoring Blog

At the start of every week you need to create a new post titled ‘Production Monitoring Blog’ – with today’s date on.

Progress:

I was off ill for two lessons but when I was in on the Wednesday I managed to make progress with my article. Everything went to plan and I made major progress I now fully understand what my article is about and should finish it within the next week

Here is a screen shot of Microsoft word and my written article

Here is a screen shot of in design with the layout of my article set out ready for my article to be loaded in I learnt various new skills in indesgin this week which will hel0p with future production.

Targets:

This week I will get my photo shoot done and also finish my double page spread, as I was off ill last week and missed my photo shoot which had previously l booked it’s important that I work hard to get the photos done as I will run out of time. I will need to use organisation skills this week and also work hard with no distractions

Contingencies:

Last week there was a power cut therefore this could happen again as it is a risk and could lead to loss off work i will need to regularly save my work both on memory stick and college computer as i could lose my memory stick. If these problems happen I will put extra work in at home and on dinner times to make sure I catch up. If i happen to be ill on the day of my photo shoot again will go out of my way to come in whilst ill as i have no time to miss it again.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Weekly Production Monitoring Blog 07/03/2011

Weekly Production Monitoring Blog 07/03/2011

Last week I began to plan my schedule of what I was going to do and when, for the rest of the week I was planning out and drawing my flat plan. I started drawing my flat plan out and everything was going to plan till afterwards when I realised it wasn’t correctly scaled up. To fix this problem encountered I will have to re draw my flat plan but this time i will have to draw it to scale. I also started my product treatment this document outlines exactly what I want to achieve and how I am going to do it. Finally the last thing I did last week was to book my photo shoot out for Monday next week will now need to full –plan what is going to happen and get it all sorted.

Targets

For this week have scheduled

Tuesday/Wednesday I will start planning my photo shoot and get in contact with models to find out exactly what they have to do and if they are up for doing it I will also finish off my treatment and re draw my flat plan, To do my flat plan I will draw it up more precise and using scaling up methods to keep it neat and tidy.

Thursday

I plan to Creating initial drafts of my double page spread so I understand what is going into my article both image and text wise. I will do this by looking at my mock-ups that I have already created and deciding what content will be featured. I will then open in design and start to process my double page spread.

Contingencies

Models not turning up

If my model did not turn up would ask around the class to see if anyone else was up for the task but if not I would try re arrange my photo shoot.

Memory sticks getting lost

If I encountered this problem, I would try my hardest to find it or i would just go to my home computer where everything is backed up

Models not turning up in costume

I would try improvise but if it was a major problem I would see if it was possible to go back home and get the props, preferably I should bring a spare set of costumes in case my model lets me down.

Photo shoots taking a long time set up so that you are only left with a short time to get pictures

I would try re book the photo shoot or ask if it was possible to extend it that same day.