Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My January

1.       This is the images that i used for my calendar. Since our theme is Photo Manipulation using wonders of the world, i used Tajmahal as my background.




1.   First, i opened a blank document in the size of A4. I fill up the background with black and used photoshop interface as the layout.



1.   I opened the Tajmahal image and place it in the document.


1.   Using eraser tool i erased unnecessary parts of the image. I played with different size of the eraser .


      After finish erasing i placed the image in the corner of right side so that it won’t  interrupt my calendar.



1.       I opened the landscape image and place it behind the Tajmahal.



 1.       To make it realistic, i applied layer mask to the tajmahal and using brush tool and black as the foreground color i  maked the grasses to be appeared in front of the tajmahal.



1.       I open the picture of myself that i have taken earlier  and cut it out using magnetic lasso tool.



1.       I placed it into image. Using  layer mask and brush tool i maked  the picture look like im holding the top of the tower.


2.       Then, i applied gradient overlay to my picture to give lighting as same as the tajmahal.

3.       Then i started my work on the typography. I typed the word January using Trajan pro font in 60pt. I applied color overlay and outer glow effect to the word.  I used green color because its matches my background.


4.       Then using pen tool, i maked a working path under the month. Then i stroke the path using brush with 7px. Then i applied color overlay b outer glow effect to the line. Then i delete the working path.


5.       Then, i draw a box in the left of the image to be the backdrop of  my calendar.


6.       I change the color to light blue and reduce the opacity.



7.       Before starting my calendar, i maked the days and dates using Illustrator. Then i copied the vector object into the psd file. I resize it according to the box size.


8.       Then i opened my personal photos and using magnetic lasso tool i cut it out and placed into the calendar.


9.       I resized the image and placed it under the box , so that it will look like im  holding the calendar.



10.   Then i rasterize the box and then applied layer mask. Using brush tool i erase the box at part of my hand where it touches to make it realistic.



11.   Then i cut another picture and placed into the calendar.



12.   This time i have to erase the parts of the wall in between my picture.



13.   I placed the image on the stroke path as i laying on it.


14.   Using masking technic i maked the ‘Y’ to be infront of my arm.


15.   Then i applied bevel and emboss effect to the box.


16.   Since im satisfied with the calendar i finalize it. But before that , since my group members asked to take out the photoshop interface, i just delete it.



17.   Thats all. 


















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