Title: Cultural Firework

Title: Cultural Firework

The combination of multi culture designs together with hands holding around the design showing unity among different cultures. 

Shivani Sivanathen

B1003018

Photoshop

Working on selections & channels
- Marquee (M) ~ select a portion of the image with different shapes. 
- Quick selection mask ~ layer mask


*How to bring two pictures together (alt + click)
- open two pictures separately on Photoshop
- move one picture onto the other
- select the part that want to be used
- hide the picture and select the part
- open it back and click add layer 


Filter
- click background
- then filter ~ texture > texturizer or others to change style


Colour picker (SWATCH)
- eyedropper tool ~ colour selection tool.With the help of Eyedropper Tool, we 
  can view the colour of single location.
- If we want a particular color which already exists.
- In such type of situations,eyedropper tool is very useful to us.With this tool, 
  we can select a colour which already exists.


History brush tool (Y)
- selectively restore color, detail, smoothness, saturation, or any other image attribute from   
  an earlier point in a picture's history.

Blur tool - unfocuses image area Stamp tool - adds on part of an image Dodge tool - lightens the pixels you painted

Burn tool - darkens the pixels you painted To scale an image -  transform> scale> rotate image To resterize can use soft brush

Final designs

Design 1  

- First I opened a new canvas with the sixe of 16 x 20 with resolution of 300dpi.

-Then I used the magic wand to crop (ctrl + x) of the extra edge.

- Then I used the brush tool to do up the colour pencil colourings used for the sketch

- I chose a background from the Internet for my image background

-  I fit it into a 16 x 20 size
- I then filter the image with palette knife option

-  I used the crop tool to crop my image n fit it into the background image
- I used the move tool and moved my image onto the background and adjusted the size of the  
  sketch as according to canvas size. (Edit > Transform > Scale)

Design 2 

- First I fit my image into scale of 16 x 20
- I then used the crop tool to crop out the excess area 
- Then I used the magic wand and highlight the area I was going to colour
- Using the brush tool I colored the area that was in coloured using pencil colour

-  Then I open a new 16 x 20 canvas and used the gradient tool 

- I chose a gradient for my background

-  I then filter the image using paint daubs

-  I enlarged the image to make it fit into the canvas 

Design 3

1. First I open a new canvas with 16 x 20 and 300 resolution
2. Then I open another one for the other image
3. This design is the combination of two sketches
4. I used the magic wand and selected the globe area and deleted (ctrl +x) it of the centre
5. Then I used the magic wand again and selected the white background of the first image and removed it (ctrl +x )
6. Then I moved the second image onto the first image using the move tool.
7. After adjusting its brightness to the level I wanted, I merged it down.
8. Merge the two image with the background with a linear burn effect

Composition

Composition & visual communication
- arrangement of element in your photos
- no hard & fast for crafting good compositions
- your intention will guide your decisions about composition
acknowledge that compositional issues exists  & find a way to convey the intention of your photograph


* Learn to view a scene with different frame of mind! 


- notice absolutely everything in your scene
* determine what is important or not
* analyse what is important (hierarchy)
* how various elements relate to each other


Gestalt & image composition
- describes the human brain as holistic with self-organizing tendencies 


Gestalt theory  ~ platform to perceive how viewers will perceive the image


Five main principles:-
* similarity 

* continuation
* closure
* proximity

* figure & ground 

Examples of principle gestalt 

Additional issues of perception

- light vs dark ( high-key & low -key image)

- shapes

- foreground vs background

- format of photo

- horizon line -> imaging/ real

- colors in photograph 

Path through photography

- lines, either real/ implied are followed through a composition

Edges of a photography

- leading lines within the photography can lead viewer into it instead of out of it.

- some photographers darken the corner

Movement within photography

- giving a running person enough space withing the photograph to run.

Perspective and depth

- perspective gives a sense of 3D depth to 2D.

Rules of thirds

- that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced  

   horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional 

   elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

Remove clutter

- includes only visual material that supports your intention 

White space 

- can be any color but should be either very light or dark so that the text will show up.

- empty or extremely out of focus, areas in photography that can accept text

Other compositional elements  

- patterns

- touch of color

- motion as contrast

- experiment with your compositions

African ladies - combination of malay, chinese, indian, japanese & native american

Combination of all the cultures in Malaysia with different races 

Puzzle concept - different culture design 

Batik concept with thailand, african, japanese, indian & chinese design

Different cultures help each other

Different cultures celebrate all the festivals in Malaysia

Different culture around the world unite 

A kolam concept with different culture design and with different races uniting 

A mat concept - the combination of native american, african snail design, malay, Chinese, indian & japanese

Each umbrella represents different culture and each person represent different race. Different races help protecting different culture.