Calendar Entry for September and October

Here's the finished product for my part: September and October. September being the Virgo's month and October the Libran's month.




For the Virgo (October) I used two different images for the main subject and the background:

Here's the main subject: the so-called perfectionist that represents the personality of Virgo. I used layer mask and direct selection tool to select only him, his cello and pedestal and not the rest of the background. Then, I went to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal to flip him in the opposite direction. Consequently, I used eraser tool to erase any jagged lines along the edges. Then, I duplicated the guy's layer and set the duplicate to a soft light effect to get a nice color. In addition, I also put a drop shadow effect on the guy.

For the background, I resized the music sheet so that the notes can be seen more clearly at the background. After that, I placed it and then used the pencil tool to write some words on the sheet. I used the pen tool to separate the guy from the space for the calendar. After drawing a straight line, I right-clicked and selected "Stroke Path" and then Brush tool. Before, I selected a patterned special effects brush. After that, I used the rectangular marquee tool to select the calendar part and then used gaussian blur to blur the background so that the calendar will be more focused on. I also adjusted the Hue/Saturation to give it more colour.

Lastly, I added in the text for the description of Virgo and the calendar numbers. I used Century Gothic font and added effect such as outer glow and drop shadow.

Here are the images for the October month:



First, I used Direct Selection tool to select the girl out of the picture in the first one. Then, I used eraser to get rid of the jagged outlines and healing brush to rid any imperfections. After that, I duplicated the girl's layer and put a soft light effect on the duplicate. I also put a special outer glow effect on her

For the people in the crowd, I selected three people from the picture and did the same with the girl by erasing jagged lines and all that. I put a filter gallery effect (pallete knife) to make the main girl stand out more.

For the background, I chose a ballroom scenery with lights and ambience for that "cocktail party" feel. I only adjusted the position for the background and put a filter gallery effect (Pallete Knife). Then, I added the text (Brush Script Std) and the lights are done by using pen tool and then selecting Stroke Path > Brush.

Meeting Report Sketches

Well, this post is to show you the sketches/ the report on every meeting. 

Yes, it does looks like scratches.

One thing I learned from this faculty is that, every sketches matters.

Because it shows that you're brainstorming for ideas.

1st meeting

 

More details

 

2nd Meeting

Thanks for reading.

Third meeting

Date: 21/10/2010

Day: Thursday

Venue: Dr 0001 (FCM building)

Time: 3.00pm

Attandance: All attended [Azura, Fina, Fatin, Mira, Ainul, Adibah]

[NEW!] Group number: 23

Discussed about:

- the models

(the problems in searching for them)

= create an advertisment, and use facebook for the people to see. Adibah make the ad.

- The calender's arrangements.

-The mock up 

and don't forget to copyright the design. (as Dr. Neo Mai said)

In process

In these past few weeks, our group had a few problems which resulting the Calendar process in delay. The problem is ;

-getting our camera's late (for the photoshoot since we're planning to use models for the calendar)
-searching for the models

But not to worry,now the problems is solved and the plan that my group discussed way back at very first week again (class + the hb3 cafeteria court) will be executed next week and we will try to finish it as soon as possible.
We already discussed everything and now we just have to execute the plan. So,now the problems is solved so  i think our group can manage to finish the calendar on time :)


Concept : Western zodiac (We try to show the models personality according to the month they representing for)

For each group member, they will do 2 months.So each of them will use 1 girl and 1 guy as models for their month. Some of the photoshoot will be done outdoor. We will upload the pictures to show the process later.