Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Video Tutorials

For my tutorial I need to create. I have made my intention in attempting to create a HDR panorama both with the use 'Merge to HDR Pro', Photomerge and Content Aware Fill. Unless that changes, I felt that I'm going with that as Panoramas are essentially new to me and that will also teach me a few things, in addition to teaching others (well...trying to)

I'm yet to decide on where to do the photos for the panorama tutorial, but will decide on that by Next Monday time. As for the software, I'll be using the software that came with the Mac (which was somewhat a surprise as the version of QuickTime Player that is one the Mac has screen recording capabilities).

I'll keep posting as the weeks progress

UPDATE (31/10/2011): I have started to find some examples of tutorials on HDR Panoramas, in which should allow me to create a tutorial like these, but adding my own spin.

HDR Pro and Panorama through Photomerge


Creating Panoramas Manually


Merge to HDR Pro (Parts 1 & 2)




UPDATE (08/11/2011) - I've finished my own Photoshop Tutorial, it can be accessed here


Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Design Brief

My apologies for not posting this earlier, I had things to do during the holidays in which making posts was not possible. But anyway:

I was given a design brief by Tristan Boersma to create some business designs for a fictional comic book shop called 'Stan's Comic Corner', in which I had to create the following:

- A Logo with Slogan
- A Point Of Sale (POS) 3D Promotional Product
- Website Mockup
- Shopfront Mockup
- Brochure of Business (A4 to DL Brochure) OR 4 Page Booklet (in A5) OR A2 Poster

In the first consultation meeting, I had came up with some concepts, as shown below:
















In the first consultation meeting, we decided to go on with the yellow logo in the top right of the first set of logos. The summary of the meeting was as follows:

- The use of a borderless logo
- Avoid the use of Blues
- Decided on the Red Text with Yellow Background
- Slogan needs to be orientated with comics
- Eliminate the 'Wagga Wagga' Sub-Heading

In the second consultation I received feedback on the works that was to be done and fix up a few things, here is the feedback I've received on the work in progress:





















I continued on the work, as well as fixing up the odd issues on the existing stuff based on the feedback and produced the following final works during the holidays:



Stan's Comic Corner Logo and Slogan (both in Full Colour and Black & White)









A5 Booklet - Front Cover (Page 1) and Back Cover (Page 4)















A5 Booklet - Inside of Booklet (Pages 2 & Page 3)















Shopfront

Original Photograph taken from my Nikon D5000 SLR (image of the empty shopfront on Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga, where Fletcher's Photographics used to be)















Shopfront Mockup of Stan's Comic Corner














Website Mockup

Newspage
















Comics Search and Listing
















About Us
















3D Point Of Sales Product















Overall, I was rather satisfied with the work I've produced and I felt that I've met all of the requirements of the design brief that was given to me.