Graphics Poster Evaluation

 These were my Final outcomes for the 8hour exam they were inspired and developed with the background of Various artist such as David Klein, Chris Dent, Andy Potts and various methods that I have developed myself using Tutorials at a earlier stage I also found that The Time that I was wary of was more than enough to make the 5 designs as I prepared myself very well going into the exam with all the materials and knowledge of what to do I did face some problems with the Time of the Lino Printing however everything else came easy to me as I had a lot of practise and was on auto pilot for the other posters I did make changes to improve some posters and found that it really helped with the overall design. Making a Time keeping sheet to make the most of the Time and had various Checkpoints every 30 minutes made it less stressful and made better use of the time I believe that this was the main reason I got through all the Posters in the Time available . I also believe that because I have experiment with a variety of materials and mediums I was able to extend my chances of being successful with these designs e.g. if I hadn't experiment with the Lino cutting making it would take a lot longer and If I had'nt known the knowledge of the of the inks long drying time I wouldn't of made it with less ink to reduce the drying time I believe that there could of been changes to make the design better In many ways such as more detail in areas less going on in some images but overall I believe that it worked well and if it was done again the outcomes will be of higher standard

Exam Planner

This is my Time sheet for the 8 hours of the exam is also shows the materials that will be needed and as I will be making 3 outcomes using CAD methods this requires the mac Access to be needed in the whole exam. If I stick to this time sheet and meet the checkpoint times I have given Myself I will give myself the highest possible chance to make all the outcomes to a high standard without the outcomes looking as if they were rushed.

Poster Names

I have decided to look into the names of the 5 poster series and came up with:

1. Play London
2. discover London
3. Travel London
4. LDN
5. About London Town

Each poster name will fit directly with the poster it is assigned to. Play London will show a Day out on southbank with the London eye this will be designed using lino printing. the 2nd in the series 'discover London' will be developed using a 4 colour stencil this will be taken from a image I have collected of the tour buses in London. travel London will be developed using the techniques that I have developed in Photoshop. LDN which is just a shortening for the word London will feature multiple Landmarks using the techniques of Photoshop. The final Poster about London Town will be developed using sketches to produce a hand drawn outcome.
The fonts that I will go with needs to be simple as this will cause some form of equilibrium when it comes to the overall posters aesthetics, if too much is going on in the image then it wont work so well.
these fonts are :
Olde English - Dafont.com
Old London - Dafont.com
Boarder - datfont.com
London Underground Font - Fontspace.com

Black and white effects on Photoshop

 I have developed these effects in Photoshop using two Layers one being the actual pics and a layer filled in grey that is applied to the colour effect to give you a Black and white image then I used the eraser tool to rub away t.he grey areas that I do not want to reveal the colour underneath.

experimentation on Adobe Photoshop 3

Electrifying Poster design Tutorial
the first step I made to making this Poster was to use a tabloid sized document in Photoshop I then used a gradient fill in a Radial style scaled to 150% in reverse, I then reduced the opacity of this layer to 75% and created a new layer I then created a new gradient adjustment layer and customized it with 2 colours of my own which where directed at a 45 degree angle and reduced the opacity of this layer to 25%. I then Placed the image of the Taxi as the taxi had a complexed background I used the Magnetic Lasso tool to pre-cut the image and used the refine edges tool overlayed the Image to give the smooth edges of the car and wheels I added a Layer mask to the image, I saved the image them file placed it into Photoshop on the poster I scaled the image a suitable size for the poster. I then created the diagonal bars by creating a new layer, then selected the rectangular marquee tool and created a selection and filled it with black I then went to edit transform and skew; with this tool I used the top middle selection and skewed the bar to the right, I then went to edit transform and rotate, whilst holding the shift key the rotation was done in 15 degree increments I chose a suitable rotation for the bar and made a brush with the bar by going to edit define brush and named it to diagonal bars I then deactivated the selection and deleted the layer.
I then created a new layer and positioned it under the layer of the taxi and named it dual diagonal bars I then selected the brush tool and selected the brush that I just created I went to window brushes to show the brushes pallet I ticked the shapes dynamic option and set the size jitter to 100% and I did the same for the scattering option i began painting with a foreground colour of black in the way that I wished to. I added a gradient to this style by selecting the layer and going to blending style I then chose Gradient overlay and selected  a spectrum effect then the angle to -45% and scaled it to 150%. I then created a 3D version of the diagonal Bars by creating a new layer and positioned it as the top layer and named it 3D diagonal bars, I then set the foreground colour to white and painted some bars I then held the control/command key and clicked on the layer to get a selection of the bars I then went to the paths pallet and  created a vector path using the selection afterwards I when to 3D and Repousse'd the selected path I then rotated 3D object made to my liking. I set the lights to CAD optimize and adjusted the depth to reduce the thickness of the 3D layer. I then went to layer, layer style and gradient overlayed the 3D layer and set the gradient to spectrum and scaled to 150% I adjusted the angle setting to the direction of the diagonal bar I clicked and dragged directly on the image to get the colours I wanted from the spectrum selection. I then went to colour overlay and set the blend mode to overlay and used a colour of my choice. I then rasterized the image by bring up the 3D window and used ray trace final after this process I the clicked on the layer and rasterized 3D and positioned it under the layer of the girl I put these effects into a group by pressing control/command G. I the held the alt/option key and duplicated the layers as I dragged it. I then named this group to 3D diagonal bars I then selected the Move tool and moved it into the position I wanted; I then converted this into a smart object by going to layer smart object and converted it into a smart object. I then went to layer new adjustment layer and brightness/contrast and check-marked the use previous layer to create clipping mask I the used the legacy of the layer and set the brightness and contrast to 50. I then created a new document to 100 by 100 pixels and selected the rectangular marquees tool and set the option to fixed size ' width to 100 percent and height to 25px'. I made a selection and filled it with black I then duplicated the layer I then used the offset filter and made the vertical setting to 50. I then used the crop tool to rotate the image 45 degrees and dragged the sides to the document edge. I then went to edit and define pattern and set the name to diagonal interlace, I then closed the file without saving it and selected the ellipse tool and set the shapes style to default/none I then selected the ellipse option of using a circle and created one on the original document
I the clicked on the layer and chose blending options and set the fill opacity to 0% I then went to pattern overlay and set the blend mode to screen and selected the diagonal interlace pattern that was created. I adjusted the scale to suit the image and renamed the layer to interlaced circles. I then added this to shapes after clicking the ellipse tool and drew a few more circles. I then duplicated the layer and placed it under that  taxi and added more cicrles and reduced the opacity of these layers to add transparency I then created a new layer and named it star filter and positioned this layer above the blending fill layers and changed the blending mode to screen and filled it with black I then selected the brush tool and brought up the brush pallet and enabled the shapes dynamics and set it to 100% and scattered it to 1000% painted in the areas that I wanted the star filters and duplicated the layer (command J), I then used the motion blur filter and set the angle to 45 degrees and adjusted the settings to give a suitable motion blur. and repeated this filter by pressing command F, I then selected the other star filter layer and applied a -45 degree angle and repeated the filter afterwards I merged the layers and named it star filter I then sharpened it by going to filter sharpen and used the unsharp mask tool: I made the amount 200% and adjusted the radius accordingly. I then created a new photoshop document of 10000 pixels by 10000 pixels I selected the rectangular marquee tool and set the style to fixed size width to 100% and height to 100px I created a selection I created a new layer and filled it with black I then went to edit free transform and clicked the triangular button before setting the Y axis to 10000 pixels then I  went a stepbackwards the I pressed control/command alt shift and T 9 times then I deselected the selection I then went to filter distort and polar co-ordinates and set the mode to rectangular to polar I then made a selection of the entire document and transfered it onto the original document, I then skewed the new layer then scaled it to the image and rotated it the way I wanted it. I moved this layer below the girl and set the opacity to my liking. I then used a gradient overlay on the shape and set it to spectrum. I then added a star flare to the document, first I made a new layer and filled it with black. I wenty to filter render and lens Flare and set the brightness to 100% and chose movie prime as the lens type and positioned the light in the middle I then used a gaussian blur filter and adjusted the radius until the blue line disappears I then went to edit free transform and set the height to 10% then I went to edit free transform and rotate and set the angle to 30% and changed the blending mode to screen and pressed control, alt, shift and T 5 times and the star flare is created i will merge the lens flare one document and set the filter to screen. I the used the Hue saturation tool and colourized the flare and set the hue to 200 and the saturation to 100 and duplicated the star flare and set the hue on this flare to 180 and erased over areas that didnt need the flare with a black foreground.
And That is how I created this poster.

experimentation in Photoshop 2

I have used an image that I have sketched out to make my  Chris Ede inspired Illustration. The first thing that I have done is to make a duplicate of the layer as a safety layer I then filtered and cutout the image I selected the colour Range tool and selected the shapes and made them purple; I then went on to delete the background and made a new layer which has the maps of London made up of small circles to do this effect I got a picture of a map of London reduced the transparency and edited the brushes to create the effect that I wanted. I found that as this study developed I went in a different direction than that of Chris Ede, however I do think that this study can Progress and develop into a more successful outcome. although this was a quick Study it made me think of new ideas and was to make a final outcome whilst using photoshop, I found using the tools in this form of CAD is becoming easier and more Time efficient this will be a key factor that needs to work in My favor when I am making 5 time consuming posters.

experimentation in Photoshop

I have had a go at making a Miles Donovan inspired piece and went ahead from just a simple 3 colour to using four colours in one experiment. this study was made by using a photo that I took as developments for the final posters. I have used a photoshop techniques to develop these outcomes; I started by making a copy of the original image in photoshop and selected the top  layer only, I then adjusted the threshold on the image oppositely to the duplicated layer making one light and 1 dark, I then used the hue and saturation tool to get to colours I wanted , and this point I was trying to get rid off the background so I went to select and selected the colour range tool and selected the white background and deleted it from the image .  I went a step further and made a new layer and filled it with the colour of my Choice for the 4 colour stencil I then saved the image as a jpeg re opened it into photoshop and added new colours in the places where it needed to be.