Photoshop Techniques

We have been looking at different websites for photoshop tehniques to hep us design our digipak and magazine advert. We want to make the photos used to look outstanding and different to show that we have an ability of learning new photoshop effects and using them on our work.
Below are website links to the websites we looked at.




The kind of effects that it shows us to do are the following:

- brush effects
- black and white effects
- changing the colours
- making something stand out more
- adding sparkles and glitter effects
- editing texts
- combining images and so on



This effect shows things being added to the photo image. There is also text combines with patterns which in my opinion looks good. I like the purple colour and the different shades and i also like the pose.



This is a before and after effect of a photo of nelly fertado. The photo looks alot more detailed and stands out more.



This effect looks like something we could use as it has a background and also has text infront of the photo. This would be useful for a digipak. However our album is about love and we think this stands out abit too much and does not show that. But we could also adapt this and make it more romantic by adding simplier lighter colours and effects



This effect makes the skin look smoother. A digital camera can make the skin look bumpy and show obvious makeup and powder on the face. This effect can show us how to make the skin appear more smooth. I think this is very useful for our magazine advert and digipak.



This is a before and after photo to show what different the effect has done. It is called a illustration effect thats makes the photo like a cartoon effect. This may not be relevant for us but it is useful to know just incase.





This is a before and after image of an effect that makes the picture look 'hot and fiery'. This is particularly for the male gaze. However in my opinion the picture looks abit too bright for a magazine cover and digipak for out genre.








I particularly like this effect because it makes the photo stand out alot more. It also seems easy to do when looking at the tutorial. It makes the person stand out a lot more and she looks feirce.

Shooting: Thursday 5th November

Location: Yasmin's estate
Time: 4/5pm
On this day we wanted to shoot little things and possibly reshoot some shots we think didn't go that well when looking back at our footage.

Shots that we needed to do:
- Panning across the girls eyes, closeup
- Girl looking out the window, over the shoulder shot, medium shot
- Boys part, last 2 verses, long/ medium shot
- Girl and boy's part singing together, medium shot
- Girl and boy walking holding hands, medium shot
- Girl walking out of estate, long shot
- Boy walking into estate, long shot
- Boy saying 'look outside',medium shot

We managed to get all of the shots that we needed which was good for us.

The boy and girl's costume needed to be the same as other shots we did before so we wore the same outfits. We had equipment such as lighting which was important to have as we were filming in the dark.





Pics for 5th

Photos taken for Digipak and Magazine Advert

For our digipak and album cover we needed to take photos related to our song. We used the main artist who was the girl (me). I wore the same outfit as i did on one of the shoots and was dressed the same way.

I wore makeup that was bright and bold to make my features stand out to the camera.



Her eyes and lips stand out the most, particularly for the 'male gaze'.

There is also evidence for this is..



This is Alicia Dixon, her makeup is also standing out. Her eyes are also smokey and bold and she is wearing lipstick, like me.

I looked at the makeup particularly for these artists because they are british artists that i have looked at previously for artist image research.


Using photoshop i have tried to adapt the pictures to make them suitable to use for our magazine/ digipak. I have use different effects such as black and white.



The picture above is one of the pictures we liked. It was uploaded on photoshop and i tried to make it look different and relate it to our genre. The pose and black and white effect was inspired by beyonce's album cover. However we are aware that we cannot copy this so we made it original by taking the picture from a side view instead of straight ahead. We also made the makeup and accessories coloured as a different effect which we think goes well with our genre.



Below is the original picture that was used.



I uploaded it onto photoshop. I cut the image and pasted it on a magazine sized page as a layer. I then edited the layer and made it black and white. I pasted another layer from the and kept it the same colour. I erased everything apart from the jewellry and accessories. Because there was another layer underneath that was black and white the erased parts showed this.

This was another picture we liked...



The original picture we took was this...



We changed the background of this using photoshop, this is how...

Presentation Picture

This is another picture that we had done, which we liked. The only thing we did here was make it black and white and photoshop. But we particularly like the pose, i am not looking straight at the camera and the camera positioning is good.

We had also experimented with other pictures, but we did nto particularly like them...




We found that this picture above was a good picture, we liked the way it looked. But we feel like it does not represent out genre. It looks more rock type and our genre is RnB so we decided that we cannot use this.



Also with this picture above we do not like the way it turned out overall. Personally i think it looked scary and canot be used for either a digipak cover or magazine advert. But we have learnt from this and are looking to develop this
differently.



This is another picture that i developed using photoshop. I had made the colours dull by changing the hue and saturation but i also added colour the the makeup on the face. This is a similar pose to one of our other pictures but it is a side view pose. We particularly like this pose for the magazine and digipak. However we could maybe change the effects on the photo as they could be seen as too dull for a magazine advert and digipak.

Magazine Advert Flatplan

The following slideshow shows 3 layout ideas for our magazine posters. These are very basic and we intend to develop these further

Flat Plans

Below are drafts of magazine adverts that we have produced. They are very basic as we have only done these to show possible layouts (flatplans) for our magazine. We have also done these to see what the photo's and font would look like if we used them for our magazine advert or digipak. This would help us decide exactly what we dont like and what we do like. From finding out this we can decide if we need to create more fonts or take more pictures.

Shooting: Saturday 31st, Central London

For this shooting we decided to go to Waterloo to film mainly the boy bit rapping. The purpose of this was to go to a Graffiti tunnel near the station which we thought was a good setting for the rapping bit. This was in central London and we managed to get shots that portrayed Britishness such as the Big Ben and London taxi's and even police cars.



Above is a photo of tube delays to show planning as there was tube delays and some lines were closed. To get to our desired location we had to catch a bus instead to waterloo station.
We also went to Nikita's house (our friend) who had a bed with white sheets and we wanted the girl to be lieing on the bed and singing the chorus to the camera.

Shots we needed:
- Boy rapping in graffiti tunnel, Low angle medium shot, long shot
- Boy and girl walking around hugging, long shot
- Boy and girl sitting in Cafe talking to eachother.
- Girl singing chorus lying on bed, medium shot

Costume:

Boy: leather jacket, jeans, trainers, earrings
Girl: Blue dress, Black caridigan, Boots, Earrings, Tights

Shooting

Shooting: Thursday 29th

Location: Twickenham river, Yasmin's Estate (outside)

We went to Twickenham river to film the girl and boy walking around, sitting down together and singing their parts. We checked the weather to see if it was ok for us to film, as in not raining.



Twickenham River:
Time: 12-2pm
Girl and boy walking around, sitting down.
Girl singing whole song sitting on stair rails
Boy singing beginning part sitting on bench

Shots:
Establishing shot
Medium shot
Long shot
Low Angle

Costume:
Girl
- brown leather jacket
- Miss Sixty jeans
- black top
- black shoes
- earrings

Boy
- Jeans
- Red Hoodie
- Blue jumper
- Black trainers
- Earring

We then filmed in Yasmin's Estate (our friend) the boys part rapping outside the flat. We wanted it to be dark but if it was too dark the quality of the shooting would not be that good, even though we had a light.

Yasmin's Estate:
Time: 5/6pm
Boy singing beginning bit against a wall
Shot of him walking towards camera
Side shot
Closeup

Boy:
White hoodie
Black coat
Jeans
Black trainers

Shots:
Medium shot
Long shot
Low Angle

Shooting Photos

Shooting Sunday 25th: The Fun Fair Bit

Setting: Hounslow Heath Funfair
Time: Aroung 5/6pm (bearing in mind the clocks went back)

Weather Forecast

As we were shooting outside we needed to make sure the weather was ok (not raining!)

Shots for Sunday 25th

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