Digital Media 2019-2021 James Murphy

To do a feather in Photoshop looks good. So the the way to do it is simply get your picture or subject you want feathered and select your marquee tool by pressing M or selecting the second top icon of the tool bar. Once selected, you will see something called feather, usually at 0px. Before you make your selection, you want to increase that number to whatever you like. Here I have done 25px. When you select around the subject with the Marquee or Lasso tool, press CTRL+SHIFT+I or Select > Select Inverse and then you will be left with your subject with a fading to transparent outline like so above... Here is the Montage I created using the feather effect: For this, I have made a collage / montage of different fashion and people who are in the modeling and fashion business. You can see I have done the feathers and made things have a lower opacity and different sizes so you can see other pictures through another picture and fit more on giving the collage effect.

I recently got asked through friends by Broughton Hall Spanish teacher to create a poster promoting their Pyjama Party donations for Christmas 2019. I said I would as it is what I enjoy to do!  To the teachers who see this, if you hear of any posters being made or if anything needs promoting, I will do it! 

JULIAN OPIE INSPIRED GRAPHIC DESIGN "OUT AND ABOUT" This is an image in which I created. I got numerous pictures / images of Julian Opie's graphics work, which consisted of many objects such as long, lanky, skinny figures minding their own business doing that they usually do, which we would see in our everyday lives when we go out with friends or family, hence why I named it "Out and About".  I selected different single images of figures and copied them on different layers each, colour filling them differently than the original pictures and then brought them all together creating one image.  I done this as part of research for one of my graphic design artists in my graphic design cour se.

This is what Levels on Photoshop does. It simply brings the contrast up and down and the brightness up and down as well. The Higher the number, the brighter it gets , the lower the number, the darker and more contrast there is. With levels, you can make things to have a chrome effect or a shiny plastic effect. I have done this with other things. You just have to play with the levels and colours and you will have that effect.

This picture, I have used the Photo filter and chosen the filter Cooling Filter (82).  It makes the image have a cooler feel to it and gives the image the effect that it is live as the cooling effect gives the effect that the lights for the stage are beaming down at him whilst he performs.  I personally like this filter as it gives the live feel of the image and brings it to life, and i can personally hear a guitar being played in my head because it looks like it is being played live.  I also done the warming filter. For this, I chose a picture of an autumn setting. This is because the warming filter brings over an orange tint over the image giving the warm ascetic feel.  Again, I personally like the feel it brings it. Such as how it makes you cosy and brings a comfortable feel towards you.  These images both bring different vibes and obviously look different, however in a way do the same thing by bringing a vibe to you by sim...

This magazine aims around the teen to early twenties age range. It is weekly. It also connotes to the average working class background family with average income and people who want better for themselves. This magazine relates to teens as it says 'bullied teen' in the bottom right corner, which could inspire other people in that situation to come out stronger. It also says 'From broke to billions' which could be the same as pretty much as everyone else as the average reader of this would not be from the very wealthy upbringing or background. The fact their is a young, attractive girl on the front would make the average viewer of girls feel better about themselves or possibly strive them to be like that and look like them.   This magazine would again aim towards the early twenties / late teens age range. This magazine is a monthly one, so it fits in what has happened in the fashion and beauty industry in the last month and what is coming up in the upcomin...

We got asked to experiment with different filters within Photoshop. Some of them do not make any drastic changed to the original image, however some do... The ones that do are quite visible, either they are darker, different colours, look like they have been drawn or sketched or put together with tiles giving a mosaic effect. One shows that it has been coated in chrome, giving that shiny but at the same time, dark metallic effect.  My favorite one out of all of these filters has got to be 'notepaper' in which you find under 'Sketch'. That is because in my opinion, it looks simple but 'classy' as the same time and gives a good effect like blotches of ink have been used to create an image. Another one in which I personally like is 'Coloured Pencils' in which you also find under 'sketch'. This is because it looks like the image has been drawn using actual pencils and the type of image it is, would not be easy  for the real human to do...