THE process towards the FINAL e-wall paper.......

 * The lab 3 and 4 submittion e-wall paper is uncomplete. After i submitted that one i have do some changes in it. I explained in this blog entry.*

I consultant our digital media lecturer, Mdm Lydia regarding my previous work ( refer to my third blog post--- LAYERING). The comments i received is the building too messy ~courses need not be showed out ~ No effort is done to my text. 

Mdm Lydia also prefer creative image compare to FOM building. After 4 classes ~ i learned more abt Photoshop. 

Therefore, I change my previous design. At first i have no idea how to change my e-wall paper. I decided to google image : PHOTOSHOP OPEN DAYs. 

Then i found a image that able to generate alot of idea for my e wall paper. That image i found is only provided raw materials but not the steps on how to do it. I referred to the E-books and GOOGLE whatever i dun understand. 

Finally i found few tutorials that help me a lot towards this creation of e-wall paper. ( Reference is attached bottom of this post )

1) I throw away all the buildings and the paper that written course offered. ( just like below)

Deleted the building and
hide the date and time.

2) I found some new raw images. I selected it using selection tools. 

I need the floor texture.

The books

I need the grass of this picture.

I plan to have something like this.
 

3) At first, i select out the floor and also the book. Then, placed it on my e wall paper. Just like below.

Before

4) Then i used rectangular marquee to select a portion of the grass. I the layer above the book the turn the opacity to 50% so that it can see through the book. 

Then, i click on the book layer and used quick Selection tool to select the book den i click on the grass layer. I select inverted, and delete the grass surrounded the book. 

Change back the grass opacity to 100. Then i used, Polygon Lasso Tools to remove the side edges made is more like the pages of the book. 

I used Filter > Liquidfy > Forward wrap tools ( to made like got the feel of open book )

Finally i use the Burn tools to put some shadow on the middle line of the book. I also used the Dodge Tools to highlight few areas. ( Reference for this is attached below.)

Final Result

5) Right after steps 4, i added some images that have the 3D perspective view on the book. I found a girl jumping happily picture, a roadsign, a girl studying and a tree. I selected out using selection tools~ i use almost all the selection tools ~ i explore myself on the selection tools so difficult to explain here.

Girl Jumping

Road Sign

Girl reading

Tree

6) I rearrange those raw materials state at step 5, i do some retouching skills to enhance my e-wall paper. 

I used burn tools to made some shadows of those images. I also use the blending options to drop shadows of the images. The road sign i decided to put FOM, FOE, FCM on it. 

Therefore i used text tools to type out the text. I did some blending on those words made it more 3D and more obvious.

Then transform> scale / skew / rotate ... the words made it like written on the road sign. 

At first i wanted to use the filter > vanish point, then select the text then delete it ( so that my vanish point page only show the ewall paper without text.) Right after i set the vanish point ( and there is a blue square) I pasted the words in it. Unfortunately, everytime i did that the photoshop programme will auto shut down.

I think is my computer cant support it. So, i used a more easy method (transform ) as i mention before. This is my result

7) I unhide all the layers. It like the images below ~ Mdm Chin said that course are not important and also the wording not special. So i did something towards the wordings.

8) I deleted the courses text layer. I use the paper, scale it to the size or the word " FOM OPEN DAY" then i create clipping mask. The " FOM Open day" texture is the paper. I drop shadow on it made it more 3D style. 

The wording at the bottom, i also create a clipping masks of flowers. Then i drop yellow shadow outside and inside. Then put some inner glow.

FINAL RESULT

REFERENCES:

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-manipulation/make-a-story-book-come-to-life-in-photoshop/Page-1.html

http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-picture/4c215a3ec3e8a/The-Magic-of-Literature.html

http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshop/gettingstarted/

E-book uploaded at MMLS.

etc.

LAYERING ~~

Layering. The second lesson of adobe photoshop. 

From the previous class, 

i have select the raw material for the MMU e-wallpaper. 

Now, I need to combine layers of raw material together.

I have add some new raw materials to enhance my e-wall paper. 

First : FILM 

Second: MMU LOGO

Third: PAPER

Fourth: SKY

First, i made my white background gradient with blue colour. 

Then, I put the Film,e-bee, and the BACKGROUND on the blue background.

I transform some of my raw material and put on the film.( I play along the scale, rotate, skew, distort and others just to fit the raw materials into the black frame of the film) .

The result just as below:

Then I add the a Sky layer.

 After that, I added the FOM building and also the triangle building of MMU.
I used layer mask, dodge tools ( highlight, shadow, midtones), eraser ( background) to made the two building seems overlapping naturally.

I also add the text FOM open days. 

I used the "create wraped text" to made the words arc nicely. 

I also adjusted the blending option ( get from the layer properties), made the words with shadow.

    Next, I added the Multimedia University wordings on the left bottom.

I also added the date and time of the FOM open day.

Lastly i added the paper and wrote the course offered on the paper.

This is my final result:

Woots, finally done. Practicing Made Perfect.
I do explore the edit, filter, image,

 to made my e-wall paper perfect. 

I knew the more the time i spend, 

the more i will know about PHOTOSHOP!

GAMBATEH ! 

Thx for reading my BLOG! 

GOOD LUCK !