Design process:
Here are a few designs i have drew based around colour theory and the light spectrum, i think this is a good starting point as photography needs light to capture imagery.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Monday, 23 January 2012
10 graphic products / Plan of action
PLAN
After i researched 100 things you need to know about photography techniques, i realised and was intrigued by how much technology has an influence to modern photography, images than you see in magazine, newspapers, book or even on the web, digital photography has a large hold over images we are used to seeing today. I like the progression of photography, from the understanding of light, how an images can be embedded, camera obscura to the invention of film photography all the way to todays digital slrs. And in my opinion 1st place goes to apple for the 'cool camera' on a mobile phone to have. There are many ways to take an attractive images, and the ability to do so as a photographer sometimes takes practice, sometimes a fantastic camera which does all the work for you.
From this observation i have decided to look further into dslr cameras, as an art student i love my slr, like any other, i am hoping to broaden my knowledge of the most popular cameras around, and what adaptors and filters there are to make imagery techniques look that little bit cooler.
** SURVEY
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BTHR52G">Click here to take survey</a>
** RESULTS
My were very vague, they esstimated that a paper based filter design for an slr ca,era wouldnt work or last long enough as a product, there fore i am going to continue to research and develop my ideas.
After i researched 100 things you need to know about photography techniques, i realised and was intrigued by how much technology has an influence to modern photography, images than you see in magazine, newspapers, book or even on the web, digital photography has a large hold over images we are used to seeing today. I like the progression of photography, from the understanding of light, how an images can be embedded, camera obscura to the invention of film photography all the way to todays digital slrs. And in my opinion 1st place goes to apple for the 'cool camera' on a mobile phone to have. There are many ways to take an attractive images, and the ability to do so as a photographer sometimes takes practice, sometimes a fantastic camera which does all the work for you.
From this observation i have decided to look further into dslr cameras, as an art student i love my slr, like any other, i am hoping to broaden my knowledge of the most popular cameras around, and what adaptors and filters there are to make imagery techniques look that little bit cooler.
** SURVEY
<a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BTHR52G">Click here to take survey</a>
** RESULTS
My were very vague, they esstimated that a paper based filter design for an slr ca,era wouldnt work or last long enough as a product, there fore i am going to continue to research and develop my ideas.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
10 graphic products
Initial idea 1
Here are a few designs i introduced to my peers in the crit, i explained my diy idea, to 'create your own technique' make a a filter for your camera to create effective light spurs on your images.
Or perhaps deconstruct a film camera to expose shapes in the images as an alternative technique.
Here are a few designs i introduced to my peers in the crit, i explained my diy idea, to 'create your own technique' make a a filter for your camera to create effective light spurs on your images.
I received positive feedback in the crit, the idea was good however the filters themselves wouldn't last long only being paper based, especially if they were to be used a lot.
Here is a quick mind map i made of the feedback and new ideas, i am quite keen to look into the area of pinhole cameras, do something practical/stylish and effectively a working camera.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
100 things / Research and collect
Mind map of research and directions:
Crit feed back:
Chose one technique within photography to go ahead with, an area of interest and relevance to make 10 products which all interlink.
Statement and 10 steps:
Crit feed back:
Chose one technique within photography to go ahead with, an area of interest and relevance to make 10 products which all interlink.
Statement and 10 steps:
100 things / research and collect
Time line images :
Research i showed to blog group:
Others research:
Feedback, and written sheet:
Research i showed to blog group:
Others research:
Feedback, and written sheet:
InDesign Notes
Notes:
When working in photoshop, some layers can be transparent, to build up type and images, these layers can still be preserved in InDesign if saved as a PSD file.
When saving as a TIFF file, he transparency is no longer apparent.
In Photoshop - double click on the background in tool to to change layer to transparency layer (layer 0).
In photoshop select image (cut out with selection tool) then invert. - File, save as, PSD, (check layers box)
Because in commercial printing, TIFF files are older, and do not support layers.
Place in InDesign, image selected, go to text wrap palette, options for layout (wrap around box, object shape, alpha channels etc).
Recreation of magazine page:
When working in photoshop, some layers can be transparent, to build up type and images, these layers can still be preserved in InDesign if saved as a PSD file.
When saving as a TIFF file, he transparency is no longer apparent.
In Photoshop - double click on the background in tool to to change layer to transparency layer (layer 0).
In photoshop select image (cut out with selection tool) then invert. - File, save as, PSD, (check layers box)
Because in commercial printing, TIFF files are older, and do not support layers.
Place in InDesign, image selected, go to text wrap palette, options for layout (wrap around box, object shape, alpha channels etc).
Recreation of magazine page:
Thursday, 12 January 2012
InDesign Workshop
Notes:
InDesign works with the principle of frames, content, text, images and shape.
Settings for a new document:
Facing pages - two pages aline in layout.
Bleed and slug - extend anything to the end of the page, room for trimming down, 3mm space is the standard size.
Page pallet - manage and navigate through document, add and remove a number of additional pages.
Text - to create text box, click and drag, text container is created.
Type (tool bar) - fill placeholder with text, dummy text.
Text boxes - alter with select tool and text tool, ability to add more text, add additional frames and arrange around the page.
Placing images into image boxes instead of copy and paste.
InDesign places images as a lower quality in design, but before you print InDesign locates the photoshop or illustrator file to locate the higher resolution image for better quality.
File management - locate images, text etc in the same folder as InDesign files for location process before printing.
View, display performance - change display settings for different qualities.
It is possible to copy and paste illustrator files, and you are able to still work with them as thought they were in illustrator, however not the same for photoshop.
'W' is a preview mode, hides all boxes and column lines to view print view.
Photoshop prep before InDesign:
Resolution - 300 dpi
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - tiff or psd
Actual size
*if you enlarge an image in indesign you lower the resolution
Illustrator prep before InDesign:
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - save as an illustrator file
InDesign works with the principle of frames, content, text, images and shape.
Settings for a new document:
Facing pages - two pages aline in layout.
Bleed and slug - extend anything to the end of the page, room for trimming down, 3mm space is the standard size.
Page pallet - manage and navigate through document, add and remove a number of additional pages.
Text - to create text box, click and drag, text container is created.
Type (tool bar) - fill placeholder with text, dummy text.
Text boxes - alter with select tool and text tool, ability to add more text, add additional frames and arrange around the page.
Placing images into image boxes instead of copy and paste.
InDesign places images as a lower quality in design, but before you print InDesign locates the photoshop or illustrator file to locate the higher resolution image for better quality.
File management - locate images, text etc in the same folder as InDesign files for location process before printing.
View, display performance - change display settings for different qualities.
It is possible to copy and paste illustrator files, and you are able to still work with them as thought they were in illustrator, however not the same for photoshop.
'W' is a preview mode, hides all boxes and column lines to view print view.
Photoshop prep before InDesign:
Resolution - 300 dpi
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - tiff or psd
Actual size
*if you enlarge an image in indesign you lower the resolution
Illustrator prep before InDesign:
Colour - cmyk or greyscale
File format - save as an illustrator file
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