Magazine Cover – Assignment 1
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a) What qualities of your magazine cover make it effective? (eg. What makes it eye catching?, What about it promotes curiosity?, How is it visually pleasing?, What makes it easy to understand?)
The biggest quality I tried to play off of was using contrast. I used bright colours on a dark background. It’s eye catching because when you look at this you can Cleary see that my focal points are the title and the picture. It promotes curiosity because it has that sense of mystery. It makes you want to know what’s the story behind the picture which then in turn would make you pick up the magazine. Visually it’s pleasing because its neat, clean and not to busy. It’s easy to understand because I made sure that the writing was legible on the background.
b) What was the order of hierarchy you were trying to achieve for the elements on your magazine cover?
1)Title (GossipGirl) 2) Picture of Serena (Blonde girl)
3) Main story line (Is this the end of Blair)
4) Picture of Blair (Brunette girl)
5) Sub-stories
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Understanding Resolution – Task 4
1) Will a 300 dpi image or a 72 dpi image be clearer when printed out at the same size? How come?
The 300 dpi image would print much more clearer then the one at 72 dpi because because there are 228 more dots per inch.
2) What would a picture created at 1 dpi look like?
A picture at 1 dpi would look very square and jagged. The images look like stairs.
Fruit Bowl – Task 3
Lasso Tool
Wand Tool
Combination of Lasso and Wand Tool
1. What combination of tools did you use to isolate the fruit in “fruit_combo.jpg” and where in the image did you use which tool?
* To isolate the fruit bowl in the third picture I used the magic wand at the top to get rid of all like colour spaces, I then traced the shape with the magnetic lasso and inversed it. I deleted the outer area.
2. Of the methods you used to isolate the fruit in the 3 pictures. Which method did you find most effective in this case?
* I personally found that using the magnetic took the best for this assignment. I quickly picked up the shape of the fruit bowl.
3. Experiment with the following:
After you make a selection in the menu and go to
a) Select > Modify > Expand
b) Select > Modify > Contract
c) Select > Feather
What do these do? Post a fourth image indicating that you know what feathering does.
* Expanding makes the selected area.
* Contract does the opposite and makes the selected area smaller.
* Feather gives the picture a glowing affect. It blurs everything in the surronding area of the selected space.
