Final explanation

Atheel El Malik
I.T 9A
Mr. Liberto
Tuesday, 22nd April 2008

Photo shop final project evaluation

For our final project on photo shop, we were to create an advertisement for anything we wanted. The aim of the project was to display various skills with tools that we have learned to use on photo shop. I have chosen to create an advertisement for my own fashion store!
My advertisement was made up of 10 layers, including the background, which were all appropriately named. I also tried my best to use a great variety of tools such as the patch & heal tools, gradients and various filters. Below is a description of tools that I used for each layer.

1. Models (1):
- Filter: Artistic: Film grain, I thought it would give it a nice effect & that it would look nice if I used a Filter.
- Change in brightness/contrast. I used this tool to give the image a more shaded look.
- Burn & dodge tools which I used to create shadows in the picture.
2. Blonde Model:
- Magnetic Lasso to take the model out of a bigger picture, I specifically used these tools because the model was in an irregular shape.
- Change in shadows & highlights to give it an effect by creating shading. The use of this tool also contributed to adding more depth to the picture.
3. Model in Yellow dress:
- Magnetic& polygonal lasso to cut her out. I did not simply use the cropping tool because these tools are particularly efficient since they cut out the exact shape, which was asymmetrical.
- Rotate tool. This created more space, & made the poster look more professional.
- Brightness/ contrast tool. This was once again used to create shading & shadows, giving the picture a nice effect.
- Healing brush. There were some imperfections in the picture. I found this tool particularly great when it came to repairing scratches and specs on the image. It basically copies the info from the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool. But it also averages the information, so it blends.
4. Winter fashion models:
- Artistic filter: I used a filter called ‘dark strokes’ to darken the picture and give it a shadowy look. I thought that look matched the winter theme that was modeled.
- Slight rotation (see above)
- Skew tool. This is because there was a distortion; the focal plane was not parallel to the surface and not leveled with the center, so this was fixed using the skew tool. I then took this to another level where I exaggerated using the tool to create a nice look with the object.
- Sponge tool was used to change the level of saturation of colors for an area of an image.
5. Text: 'Fashionista' & 'Open Sunday…'
- I changed the fonts and changed their colors so that they matched with the rest of the cover and also looked coordinated.
- Rotated & skewed. (see above)
6. Disco ball:
- Polygonal lasso was used here to select a geometric looking area of the image to work on, using the patch tool while leaving the rest of it untouched.
- Rotate (see above)
- Patch tool was used to repair an area with pixels from another area or a pattern. This was useful to me because the patch tool matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled pixels to the source.
7. Nail Polish:
- Change in Opacity. Opacity refers to the amount of transparency a layer has. I changed the opacity jus so that the nail polish was not 100% opaque. This was done just to give it a special effect.
8. Lip Gloss:
- Dodge tool. I used this tool to lighten dark areas, choose Shadows, Midtones & Highlights and applied an exposure value to the image.
- Opacity Change(see above)
- Glowing. After changing the opacity, I wanted to further edit the image so that the edges did not show as much & the image was glowed because I though it gave it a special effect that way!