Wood Block Effect on Photoshop

These images are supposed to look like a wood block print.

How I made these images:

• I scanned in my image, I drew it making sure each line was a double line as this is to represent the thick line you would carve out of a woodblock.
• Next I added a new layer.
• I selected the parts of my image with the magic wand tool and filled in colour with the Bucket Tool on my new layer. 
• Once completely coloured I deleted the background layer and flatten my image.
• With a picture of a wood texture I found online, I changed it to Black & White, then adjusted the Curves and Inverted the image.
• I then moved it onto my image and put it as the layer behind.
• To finish I changed the the top layer's Blending Mode to Screen. 

Multi-coloured Print.

I then decided to try and make the block print more realistic by using just one colour as you usually do when creating a block print.

Pink Version.

Next using Hue/Saturation Adjustment on the image above I made this image...

Blue Version.

Coffee Cup Print.

More Painting on Photoshop

Painting on Photoshop

• I firstly sketched out my jug and scanned it into Photoshop. 
• I then changed the curves of my image to make it clearer. 
• Using the Magic Wand Tool I selected different areas each time. I painted it using one of the Dry Media Brushes, for a more textured effect.
• I made sure the brush had a 10% opacity so that I could apply the colour in layers. 
• I then gave the jug a ground shadow, by selecting the background with the Magic Wand Tool.
• To finish off, I made areas darker with the Burn Tool and lighten areas with the Dodge Tool. Both these tools were good as they added tone without adding extra layers of paint. 

• The second image is the greyscale version of my original, done with Desaturate Adjustment.
• The third image was done by Inverting my greyscale image.

Depth of Field Photos.

SLR cameras are usually used to produce this effect. 


With a high lens aperture (small f-number) you will create a large depth of field where the foreground and the background will all, more or less be in focus. 

Therefore with a low lens aperture (big f-number) you will create a shallow depth of field where only your selected object will be in focus, usually in the foreground. 

Large Depth of Field.

Shallow Depth of Field.

How I created these images:

• My aim was to fake the depth of field and so I collected 2 images, the parrots and the forest background. 
• Using the Quick Selection Tool, I selected the parrots.
• Before moving them onto my other image, the forest background, I feathered my selection to soften the outline of the parrots.
• Once placed on the new background, I rescaled and position the parrots. 
• I then saved this image.
• To create the shallow depth of field, I blurred my image using the Gaussian Blur to 1.5 Pixels. 
• I then saved this image. 

Graphics - Typography

As with the multimedia workshop, we were given a similar theme for the graphics workshop - Organic.

We started off with collecting images from magazines that we thought represented our theme and made a mood board. I chose sections of colour such as blues and greens as well as pictures of flowers, food and things like socks because they link through organic materials like cotton.

Mood Board.

Next, from the mood board I came up with some quick pencil sketches of Initial Ideas.
I then developed them and added colour to see how they would work.

Developed Ideas with Colour.

 I then chose my favourite 2 to develop further. I enlarged them, traced them and scanned them into Photoshop.

Letter J - Enlarged Tracing of Sketch scanned into Photoshop.

Letter Y - Enlarged Tracing of Sketch scanned into Photoshop.

In Photoshop, I used Levels to adjust the contrast and give me a pure black lined image with a white background.

Then on Adobe Illustrator, I used Live Trace, which spilt my image into different sections ready to paint. Before painting, Using the Gap Tool, I checked for small, medium and large gaps. Lastly, I used Live Paint to colour in my Images.

Final Characters:

Multimedia Final Video

This is the second video I made, which is my final version:

Multimedia

For this workshop, our theme was Natural World.

Firstly, We choose a sentence/quote from a given list, mine was:

"Don't Blow It! Good Planets are Hard to Find!" (Time Magazine).

Next, to gather some ideas I made a spider diagram for the 'Natural World'.

Then using these ideas, I created 2 A3 landscape pages that show a range of mark making by using natural brushes and textures, on Photoshop.

Mark making on Photoshop:  

This was my first experiment, I think it more easily shows what my project is about - the natural world. I tried to include trees, wind, sun (weather), flowers, coral, fish etc.

For my second experiment I tired to make it less of an illustration and slightly more abstract but all the while you still can tell what my image is about. Out of both of them, this is my favourite.

Using the techniques from the A3 sheets and our given sentence I made a small animation on Photoshop. This is the first video I made which is a trial animation using my name.