Skills Development + Experimentation

Skills Development + Experimentation

Premier Pro Practic

https://youtu.be/j8rBEvYznjc

This is my first video edit that i created, The context behind this edit is that i went over and made an Avengers Endgame edit, However as this was my first edit ever made i didn't know how to add any effects or transitions so the edit is plan, I also created a holiday theme edit where there i added some effects for some parts but no transitions, 
I first started to crop my video in parts where it was more interesting and suited the music, I also went for a fantasy theme made song of avengers endgame, Because i didn't add any effects or transitions the video is kind of short but still in the range of 1.50 mins, For my final part i decided to add Thanos "dancing" to the song "buss down by blueface"  

i really struggled with this as it was my first ever edit made plus its not done to my best as i didnt really add any effects of transitions.

Illustrator Practice

For this i went over and used Illustrator to create the head shape, First i started by getting the perfect oval for the head with the ellipse tool, At first i went over and changed the colour because i couldn't get the perfect shape for the hair i had to copy and paste the littlest thing to cover it completely, Then i went over and added the eyes with the ellipse tool but changed the colour to white and also did the same with the colour blue. For the eyebrows i added a single line with the Arc tool and just copied it to the other side. For the mouth i used the Arc tool to create the curve and then the line with the line segment tool. i also added a little bit of pink to it with the ellipse tool,

Illustrator type experiment: 

On the first page i was told to use a 11pt with a ITALIC Franklin Gothic book font, Both are way different from each other as the text on the second page has a High Tower Text with a 12pt,

Instructions i used to make the 2 pages was that i had to select both the A-master pages and make the master pages have 2 lines of columns so i can fit over 2 different texts onto one page and then have the second page for something else.

Photoshop Edits +++ Layer Masking

BEFORE ORIGINAL

 For this image i changed the sky from light blue to orange fading into purple the tool i used to do this was Gradient tool, There was a bridge in the middle where i used the Lasso tool to cut the bridge and the clone tool to print around the grass so it wouldn't be a big gap, For the house i cloned it from a different picture.

AFTER EDITED

  AFTER EDITED

For this picture i used the bridge from the first picture to add it here to make a path way, I also made the image less bright and gave it a better contrast to look more sharp, On the grass i removed some cows and also some houses that didn't look good in the picture, For this image i used the clone tool and spot healing tool that's all.

BEFORE ORIGINAL 

BEFORE ORIGINAL

AFTER EDITED

For this image i cloned the woman arranging the flowers to the other side to make it look as 2 different woman's are arranging the flowers, i used the spot healing tool to remove some dead flowers that were next to the second lady on the left, i used the magnetic tool to crop around the lady and copied and pasted it on the other side.

I found this easy to make as i done this before the only things i struggled with was the field image where it has a bridge in i couldn't get the contrast and the brightness to stay low, but the rest i'm happy with these edits.

                                             

Layer Masking:

This image is from Older London Kings Road and New London Kings Road combined together into one image, i created this to show the old vs new as the black and white parts are from old London Kings Road and the cars and the right top corner is from the new London Kings Road.

 This image has the same context as the first one i layered masked the new image of "New Street" with an old picture of New Street, For this i decided to make the top modern and some shop parts like the banners and left bottom corner to be modern,










For this edit i decided to start with the last image to get a feeling how to make the edits, i decided to go over and edit simply as the top and only small changes were made, This wasnt easy to make as older and modern places have changed and the idea i had was to change the ground to modern and leave the top from older but it didnt match, For the second edit ive dont was the "Old London" where i made more edits and make a short plan of that i wanted to make, This time it was easier for me to make as the place had some shops in the same place which i decided to change it to modern also half and half of the image is from old and new.

This was the first time ive done layer masking so it wasnt that difficult to work with but the only part that wasnt hard to do was to get the perfect lining from the old picture to the new picture.

Practise Landscape:

This is one of my own edits, i decided to make a fantasy but with natural stuff e.g. having the farm land with the sheep's however i decided to take away the land and replace it with the ocean, Then after i went over and replaced the sky with a Galaxy sky, For this i had to save the project 2-3 times as a JPEG and then go over and use a layer mask for each stuff i added(Sky, Ocean, Sheep).

For this i had to save a lot of the files and reopen it and which made me lose some files that i had to recreate, but overall im happy with this as its a Fantasy Landscape.

This is my second time that ive done layer masking, This time this took a bit longer as i had to crop out the grass where the sheep's are located and had to get every detail in, This time i found it easier to do layer masking as i knew with that to work now and how to work with the tools.



Low-Key and High-Key images.

This is a High Lighting image with a black background. This is a normal without any edits,

This is the same image but i changed the contrast and brightness to make the black background fit the main focus. Edits i used on this image was to increase the contrast and the brightness and selecting a black background.

This image was taken from the first one and i just selected myself with the magic wand tool to make myself in black and white and i used the background a orange colour to have a change.

This is a HIGH-Key photo where i changed the background completely to white and copied a black and white port rate of myself. This is a HIGHKEY because i went over and made the background white and myself black and white which makes the lighting HIGHKEY.

This pop art style photo was created by pasting the main image where i pressed CTRL A and CTRL T to copy and paste the same image with a different layer, Also what i did was i selected each layer individually with the Quick selection tool and changed the colour by going to Adjustment and Hue/saturation then changed each colour to a different one, After i went over to the magic wand tool and selected my hair and my hoodie only and changed the colours by going over the same steps..


I found this easy to make as i knew how to change each picture from black and white to a low lighting over to high lighting and to make the final pop art, i found them easy as i knew to work on Photoshop with them also the only part i had difficulties is was when i had to change the background from high lighting to a black background as my portrait chopped in half and i had to reset my whole edit as i CUT (CTRL+X) the original to copy my portrait.