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Photoshop manipulation and Illustrator designs.

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Evaluating the Photoshop process
It is surprising once you look at these images and where you started from how green the initial image is.
The adjustments made are made to what look you are supposed to be creating.
I personally wanted an image that had a warm feeling to it but if i was creating a cold image then I would have made it a bit bluer.

Evaluating this process.
After making some initial shapes and adding colour, we were given the Superman logo to attempt.
It seemed quite complex and getting the curves right took some practice.
Once I managed to work it out, these would get better with practice.
there were a few problems with points and getting back to the right ones, but mostly I felt it worked quite well.
I have included the pdf file even though it is not perfect, so that I can have a reference for improvements.

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Self evaluation

I didn’t plan this shoot, it was just to get an insight into how double exposure works in camera. Although I had done some researching into location of this initial practice.
It was hand held and why some images are a bit blurry.
Using on average F8 160th ss and ISO 100-400.
Need more practice in lining up the second image.
My favorite pictures are the sunset but the one that turned out to be the most intriguing was the ghostly one that i turned into black and white.
I use Photoshop elements 14 and have after effex available to me.
With this i was able to adjust sliders to get the look i wanted and changed the colour tone to a cool blue. It gave this sinister ghostly look.
Overall i was very happy with the results for a first attempt.
I posted the image to facebook and asked opinions into what i could do to improve the image, one was the nose in the middle was distracting and the other was adding smoke.

Room for improvements

Definitely use a tripod.
Consider the background.
Make a mind map, mood-board and a shot list.
Further location scouting.
Idea generation to determine which two or three shots to take.
I tried to add smoke to the image but could not download brushes to this software, this could have improved the image too.

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The overall colour balances in these images worked and positioning the model off centre works well for the composition.
This shoot was done with one key light so further shoots would be improved by lighting the background and create a nice rim light around the hair and show off the texture.
Using the model to turn to the light worked better than if she remained front facing as this helped the key light fall onto the hair across the shoulders.
The writing on the sweatshirt also added to a sassy attitude of a teenager.
The image with the purple colour was a bit dark but created a nice rembrandt lighting.
Overall the photoshoot was successful but there is always room to improve for the future.

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