Sunday, October 24, 2010

Assignment 1

Regarding the Festival wallpaper, i had decided that i take Lantern Festival as my assignment 1. I had some ideas and research it through the internet. I choose this festival because I know some of the rule and celebrating in this festival.

Here are some video about Lantern Festival:

Rogers Chinese Lantern Festival

A preview of the Rogers Chinese Lantern Festival at Ontario Place in Toronto 2006

Lantern Festival in Taiwan: The Sky Lanterns at Pingxi " 平溪天燈 "
The music is from a Heavenly Melody album: Suzanne plays Heavenly Melody favorites on. " Erhu ", or something like that. (the Chinese " erhu " is that 2-stringed, violin-like instrument you are hearing). I think the title of the song is " 平安夜裡真平安 " (the peaceful night is very peaceful).
The song feel peaceful and melody.

From now on, I am going to start my assignment 1 step by step. I will try my best for this assignment 1.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Gamut Warning with Hue and Saturation

This week, i had learned gamut warning in tutorial class. A gamut is the range of colors that a color device can display or print. A color that may be displayed on your monitor in RGB may not be printable in the gamut of your CMYK printer. For instance, the nice blue on your monitor that prints as purple.

Photoshop has its own color management system that uses your printer profiles to automatically bring all colors into gamut that will print to that profile’s range of colors. But you might want to identify the out-of-gamut colors in an image or correct them manually before printing to your desktop printer or converting to CMYK for a professional print job.



     My Exercise     


STEP 1 :  Open a copy of image.

STEP 2 :  Choose View > Gamut Warning or press Shift + Ctrl + Y. All pixels that fall outside of that particular profile’s gamut will be highlighted.  In this case the CMYK proof space is chosen by default.

STEP 3 :  Choose View > Proof Setup > Custom. 
Black Point Compensation will visually adjust the differences in black points between color spaces. If it is not checked, some blacks can appear gray.
Simulate: Paper White will simulate the chosen profile paper’s particular shade of white.
Black Point Compensation will visually adjust the differences in black points between color spaces.
If it is not checked some blacks can appear gray.
Simulate: Paper White will simulate the chosen profile paper's particulate shade of white.

STEP 4 :  In the Layers window > Click on the New Adjustment Layer icon >  Hue and Saturation. 


STEP 5 :  The new Adjustment layer dialog box appears. Use the drop-down option box to select the colors that need adjusting. Once a color has been chosen, the Eyedropper tools become available. Then, adjust the number of Hue and Saturation. 


This is what i have done by learning Gamut Warning with Hue and Saturation.




                  Have a nice day!!!                   

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Working With Layer

What is layer about in Photoshop??


Let me explain that i search through internet.

One of Photoshop's most powerful features is the use of layers. Each layer in a Photoshop document is a separate image which can be edited apart from any other layer. A layer can be envisioned as an image on a sheet of clear material. Together, all the layers form a stack of images.

I will show the Working With Layer in Photoshop.

First, open an image for background.

 Second, create a new layer and add a picture.

 Next, create the third layer to add in picture again.
 The third is suppose place behind the second layer. So, just drag the third layer to the layer between first and second.

 Then, the third layer is already behind the second layer.

Lastly, create the fourth layer to add some text.

Finally,
this is the Working With Layer result.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

E-Wallpaper

In assignment 1, we told that need to create a " festival " wallpaper. I had choose 2 festival, there are hot air balloon festival or lantern festival.


Hot Air Balloon Festival
Hot air balloon festivals are held annually in many places throughout the year, allowing hot air balloons to gather and participate in various activities. They can include races; evening " night glows ", in which balloons are fired while remaining tethered to the ground; and rides.







Lantern Festival
The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called " Yuan Xiao Festival " in China. According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat " yuanxiao " ( glutinous rice ball ) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.

Yuan Xiao is the must-eat festive food for the Lantern Festival.

On a Lantern Fair, many sophisticated and detailed lanterns are displayed.

Thousand lanterns were hung out, lit and displayed for everyone to enjoy.

Dancing a Fire Drangon requires courage, skill, and cooperation.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Workspace


I had search some workspace through the internet. I would like to share some of the workspace here that i had go through.

A.Document window  B.Dock of panels collapsed to icons  C.Panel title bar  D.Menu bar  E.Options bar F.Tools palette  G.Collapse to icons button  H.Three palette ( panel ) groups in vertical dock 

A.Title bar  B.Tab  C.Drop zone


A.Menu arrow  B.Scrubby slider  C.Text box  D.Dial  E.Slider



A.Click to open pop-up slider box  B.Drag slider or angle radius

A.Click to show the pop-up palette  B.Click to view the pop-up palette menu


About Tools

A.Tools palette  B.Active tool  C.Hidden tools  D.Tool name  E.Tool shortcut  F.Hidden tool triangle

A.Gripper bar   B.Tool tip

A.Palette menu button  B.Thumbnail display of artwork  C.Proxy preview area  D.Zoom text box  E.Zoom out button  F.Zoom slider  G.Zoom in button

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

ABOUT ME

Hello!!! I want to introduce myself.

NAME : Sim Wee Fong
ID : 1102701980
HOMETOWN : Kuantan, Pahang
SCHOOL : Multimedia University
COURSE : Faculty Creative Multimedia
YEAR : Alpha
HOBBY : Table Tennis / Swimming

Anyway, this is my first time learning ADOBE PHOTOSHOP and I am using ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS3. I am no idea using it now and I have to learn. I will learn it step by step and explode it from the computer graphic 2 class and some of the website.