A Better Place (part 2)

The second week for "A Better Place" project who sorted out who's doing what, my job was to make stickers to put on top of the switches in the classroom.

I decided to use illustrator for this because these are my final products

T5 Magazine

This is the beggining of our T3 Magazine project, Our idea for now is to making the magazine page feature iOS 7 and the new iphone 5s. For now our plan is to create it in indesign and photoshop but depending on how long it's going to take for us to plan and how hard it is we might just end up making a still image.

                                        (idea inspiration)

A Better Place

We are starting the new project "A better place"

our plan is to make a few stickers and a poster to put around school to reduce use of electricity in school

So far we have only made a rough drawing of our "mascot"

Image Formats

JPEG/JFIF, JPEG 2000, TIFF, GIF, PNG

JPEG / JFIF:

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a compression method; JPEG-
compressed images are usually stored in the JFIF (JPEG File Interchange Format)

file format. JPEG compression is (in most cases) lossy compression. The JPEG/JFIF

filename extension is JPG or JPEG. Nearly every digital camera can save images

in the JPEG/JFIF format, which supports 8-bit gray scale images and 24-bit color

images (8 bits each for red, green, and blue). JPEG applies lossy compression to

images, which can result in a significant reduction of the file size.

JPEG 2000:

JPEG 2000 is a compression standard enabling both lossless and lossy storage.

The compression methods used are different from the ones in standard JFIF/JPEG;

they improve quality and compression ratios, but also require more computational

power to process. JPEG 2000 also adds features that are missing in JPEG. It is not

nearly as common as JPEG, but it is used currently in professional movie editing and

distribution (some digital cinemas, for example, use JPEG 2000 for individual movie

frames).

TIFF:

The TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) format is a flexible format that normally saves

8 bits or 16 bits per color (red, green, blue) for 24-bit and 48-bit totals, respectively,

usually using either the TIFF or TIF filename extension. TIFF's flexibility can be

both an advantage and disadvantage, since a reader that reads every type of TIFF file

does not exist. TIFFs can be lossy and lossless; some offer relatively good lossless

compression for bi-level (black & white) images.

GIFF:

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is limited to an 8-bit palette, or 256 colors. This

makes the GIF format suitable for storing graphics with relatively few colors such as

simple diagrams, shapes, logos and cartoon style images. The GIF format supports

animation and is still widely used to provide image animation effects. It also uses a

lossless compression that is more effective when large areas have a single color, and

ineffective for detailed images or dithered images.

PNG:

The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format was created as the free, open-
source successor to GIF. The PNG file format supports 8 bit paletted images (with

optional transparency for all palette colors) and 24 bit truecolor (16 million colors) or

48 bit truecolor with and without alpha channel - while GIF supports only 256 colors

and a single transparent color. Compared to JPEG, PNG excels when the image has

large, uniformly colored areas. Thus lossless PNG format is best suited for pictures

still under edition - and the lossy formats, like JPEG, are best for the final distribution

of photographic images, because in this case JPG files are usually smaller than

PNG files. The Adam7-interlacing allows an early preview, even when only a small

percentage of the image data has been transmitted.

Sams Evaluation

Introduction to Photoshop

Work space
work space are various elements such as panels, bars and windows. the arrangement of these elements are called a workspace

Color Correction

Changing/ correcting the color of the image

By using a threshold layer i found the brightest and darkest parts of the photo then used the levels layer to brighten the brighter parts of the photo and same thing for the mids and darks

Final product it gives my a way better contrast and also gives an illusion of a better quality photo.




Retouch Photos

     - I used the healing tool to remove the blemishes
     - filled in the gaps in his hair
     - changed the tone

Re-size, Rotate, Crop

Using the joker i took a photo off i replaced the king with the black joker by cropping it, rotating and re-sizing it.

Selection Tools

I videoed him jumping down the set of stairs on a tripod making sure to keep the background the same throughout

Then i screenshot the frames that i wanted in the photo making sure none of them interfered with each other

I rough cut each frame of the person and made multiple layers of only him with the background transparent

Last of all i put them all in one frame and made sure everything looked nice