Diary Cover. Goals, I.Production, Review And Final Result

Thursday March 1
Today i plan to gather up ideas for the student diary cover for 2008. Also, i hope to have all my sketches finished by the end of this lesson.
Throughout this week and next i will bring my digital camera so i can take photos that will be useful to my assessment task.

Image Production



Review

I was not greatly satisfied with my end result of the diary cover. There were a few flaws and it didn’t end up looking professional in the way I would have liked it to.
I guess since this is the first task we completed in class, I didn’t really have much knowledge of presentation of the assignments. This is something I would change or put more effort into in the future.

The photos of the school were a mix of ones taken from my camera and the school camera and it was obvious in the finished product. The two variants had different quality, exposure time, shutter speed, etc, and this resulted in two very different looking photos. I don’t know why I ended up using that combination. I thought in the beginning the contrast would look good but it didn’t.

This task was good for me because I learned new skills such as masking, cropping and resizing images, and colouring objects differently.

If I was to do this task again I would re-think the background a little bit more. It was reasonably plain and uninteresting.

Final Result

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One of the photos i took for graphics technology. Picture of the corridors of Canning College.




These last few lessons in class we have been doing various tasks which teach us the different tools of COREL Photo-Paint. We had a chance to experiment with the different effects that you could use on photos...




In the end i went for two simple effects for this photo.. i dont think anything too nifty woulda made this look good. So basically i just played with the camera lens effect and used the vignette effect for a border..



There are two different variations...for the first photo i used the plastic effect, and adjusted the depth and smoothness.

Graphics Technology 2007

Errm.. im david.. and im 16.. do i put that? :D

I came from applecross senior high school. Finished year 11 and came here to do year 12.

In this class i hope to gain skills in website designing area and also photo editing...

and i was told that the course would maybe include some photography, which is an interest of mine so i hope to get something out of that!

Um.. there should be a horrible photo of me up here i think?

i'll change it soon!