OUGD405 - Primary, Secondary and Direction Design Boards

Adobe Photoshop Workshop

The basics of Photoshop...

How to sharpen an image?

The destructive transformation - Irreversible

How to set up a new page

Preset 

Print Based

• U.S Paper
• International Paper
• Photo

Screen Based

• Web
• Mobile and Devices
• Film and Video

We must create a document at the size which we want to use it - if not we will get pixelation. example, enlarging an image which was made as A4 scale to A1 scale the pixels will be seen. 

Resolution is the quality of image you will get. 300 hundred is the standard, there are higher resolutions available. 

48 sheets - when printing large scale images. There are on printers which can print large scale images, it is done in separate sheets.

Billboards - 48sheets

Bus Ad's - 12 Sheets

Screen -

Web design - 72 pixels per inch, all screens have 72 pixels per inch which means that all resolutions for screen will be similar. There have been new inventions (retina display) which have more pixels per inch which makes life difficult for web designers. 72 pixels per inch is not actually correct though Graphic Designers stick at 72.

Using google images is bad for printing as the image will only be 72 pixels per inch which would not be suitable for print. 

When printing use CMYK

When on screen use RGB

When on the screen the image is made out of light - RGB

When printing the colour is made out of ink or toner - CMYK

When changing the paper settings the colour mode stays the same. RGB colours cannot be recreated with ink. The setting doesn't change because we are working on a screen which means we are working in RGB and not CMYK. 

Taken with Digital SLR camera. When taking an image on a camera the colour will always be RGB. Printers can not recreate the colours on the screen. Graphic Designers should never be surprised by the colour when printed. It is impossible. 

Changing the image to CMYK is a destructive transformation. 

Proof Setup

Test, to display the idea in general. 

See what it would look like when we print it. 

By default it is set up for CMYK mode. We can change it to show the different ink colours. 

Gamut - the range of colours that a specific colour model is capable of producing.

Adjustment Layer

None Destructive.

Hue and Saturation tool

Increasing the Saturation makes the blues more brighter

Using reds instead of blue

Adjustment Layers 

Levels

None destructive

Can select the areas which you want the adjustment to be applied to by painting over the areas you do not wish to include using the brush tool. 

you can build up and use multiple adjustment layers. 

Quick Selection Tool

Moving the highlights triangle in the levels bar brings the statue into focus.

To take the holes out of the adjustment use the magic want tool and select the holes.

Fill the holes with black which will take them out of the adjustment.

Automate means that Photoshop is going to do it for you.

Crop the image to get the full effect.

Next week bring in some images which can be used for post cards.

OUGD404 - Design Principles : Manipulating Letterforms

Before this session we were asked to identify a Gothic, Script, Roman and Block font and bring along an upper and lower case A B C for each. We were set the task to separate the different parts of each letter form such as the cross bar and stem.

After doing this we were asked to come up with a wide range of different variations of each letter form using the parts of each font.