Photoshop Skill Development

For my current 'brand-zine' project on Tom Ford (Project Three) I decided to use a gold leaf style lettering to reflect the luxury and excessive side of the Tom Ford brand. This was something I didn't know how to do, so I used a short tutorial video on YouTube to learn, seen below:

From this tutorial I managed to produce the text below, which will help to add both an element of texture and added colour to my predominantly black and white brand-zine.

Project One: Final Moodboard

My Final Moodboard

Here is an image of the final moodboard I created to represent Mason Martin Margiela. It consists of 10 images which are both images from the brand and designer himself as well as images that I believe sum up or represent the designer's ideas and brand's image.

Feedback

The feedback that I received from both my tutors and peers suggested that I need to structure my presentations clearly during preparation in order to make sure I include the necessary information and points that I wish to get across. They also suggested that including words within my moodboard could help to create a stronger feel for the message I want to portray, as well as helping to give me 'reminders' that could help me to stick to a rehearsed structure within my presentation. 

It was also suggested that my moodboard could be improved with more images that are not directly from the brand as this could create a better idea of what my interpretation of the brand is. 

It was also commented that I had clear skill with using photoshop. 

Sketchbook

I also recorded all of the above in my sketchbook, as you can see below:

Photoshop: Editing Colour

Editing Colour Images

In today's tutorial we practiced and refined four ways in which we can manipulate images using colour. 

• Luminosity - 
• Create new Layer 
• Place desired colour layer under original images
• Change original image (top) layer behaviour to 'Luminosity'
• Merge Layers and trim image where necessary
• Hue and Saturation -
• Image - Adjust - Hue (colour) and Saturation (strength)
• Place desired colour next to image to improve accuracy
• Halftone Pattern - 
• (not available in CMYK mode, must be RGB) - image - mode - RGB - don't flat tern
• make sure desired colour is in top layer of colour tool/palette
• filter - filter gallery - sketch file - halftone pattern
• Replace Colour - 
• Image - adjust - replace colour
• adjust fuzziness to determine how much of the colour you want 
• use Hue/Saturation tools to further adjust

Photoshop: Creating a Moodboard - Layouts

In our first Photoshop seminars today, our  covered the basic tools and functions that may help us with style and composition. Below is the image I created during the session, as you can see I have experimented with composition, colour palette, colour blocks and transparency: