Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Evaluation of desktop design

In this project I have drawn, taken photos and used photoshop to make a desktop design.

I made the design by first making  the layers that I needed and then I name the layers to what I was going to use it for. After I got the Shipley college logo and placed it in the right layer and where I thought it was ok then I selected a different layer and painted a line. I then drew the people on photoshop and added a different texture to the image and a outer glow. I the added a backgroung image and put it at the back where everything was in front of it  and then added the water paint brushes and smudged & blured the background.

The end product does not match the original design as I have change the background to make it more of my own and I have added more people that were made in photoshop to my design.

I think that the end product is suitable for my target audience because my target audience is mainly people that work with the computers on the media suite a lot and older people and some of the younger people through out the design process I changed how many people were there and the way they where placed..

I have used the paint tool and changed the type of paint brush to a water type to make it look like the spiral is letting water out and spreading it around the design. I have also used the smudge tool to spred spiral a bit more and make the colour mix a bit more as it did not look good when it was sharp I have also used the blur tool to blur the middle of the spiral to make it less sharp. I have also used the textures to make some of the people look more interesting I have also use bevel and emboss to make some of the images more 3D and I have also used inner shadow to make the words a different colour.

The style of my design is in the graphic art style as most of the things made in photoshop are based on graphic art.    

I did find one problem which stopped me from adding the selected fonts to the font list so I typed what I wanted to use the font and then copy & pasted is to photoshop and changed it from there because of this problem I was not able to do what I wanted with the text. I have now learned how to use photoshop more effectively and how to put more detail into my work. I just manged to finish the project in time with the deadline and I did not have any problems with time mangment.

If I could make the product again I would make the people I created more real.

1 comment:

  1. Top stuff dudey, I like your Shipley College logo as well. Someone really needs to show me have to put effects or filters on stuff like that. Good stuff indeed! :)

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