capture: February 2011

Thursday 17 February 2011

website plan

This is the design of my website. I was originally going to have the text in the middle for all pages and have text links or buttons but after my research i had developed better ideas and had come up with this idea. The main page is in the center of this sketch. then the layout of the other pages are relatively the same.

Wednesday 16 February 2011

evaluation

My website was designed to be based around the manga artist Yana Toboso. The first things I did was to research what books she had created. After that I had to research and find out what those books were about. After getting this information I was then able to design and create a logo. My logo has some aspects of both of her books. I also needed to do research of other websites so that I could get ideas for my own. I managed to find a couple websites that were unique and different. This research helped me as it had then given me ideas on what I could do for my website.
To complete my project I had used flash. I used a mixture of traditional and digital methods to capture the stuff I needed for my website. First I had use a graphics tablet to draw the backgrounds. And then after I had gotten my traditional stuff I then went onto using a digital method in flash to create my scroll bars.
I think that the success of my project was the visual aspect. As the lace brush tool that I had used showed of the style of the manga Yana Toboso had written. Also with the images on the main page that I had created were good because for anyone that had read her books they would be able to tell what this site was about

In this project I like using the scroll bar in my work as it gave a professional feel. It also makes the page look tidier and less cluttered if the text is in a small box. I would like to use this again in my future projects because it organises everything and makes it easier to navigate around.
Some of the research I did for this project helped for example the research I did about the layout of websites helped allot because it gave me ideas about how my website could look. But the research about the history of my capture method which was drawing didn’t help me at all.

If I were asked to do this again I would have spent allot more time in doing research so I could get more ideas on what to put in or on my website. I would also have used scanning so I could put textures onto my website because it might have made it look more interesting and appealing
Over all with this project I managed to learn how to create links and scroll bars in flash and I also learnt about different layouts on websites. My overall opinion of my website was that I could have added in more things to make it attractive and I could have added more information and text

Wednesday 9 February 2011

design for my main page

After looking at and visiting various other websites I had found a design that I liked. In this design it was different to other websites as when ever you scrolled down on other websites they would have the whole screen scroll down but on this certain website that I had found the only thing that scrolled down was a box with the text inside of it. I decided that I would be creating my website like that as it is new and original. Another thing that I had come across when looking and visiting other websites was the use of images as links. I think this is a very good idea because it is more attractive then having text every were but it does also have a fault as if there is no information telling the person were to click and were it takes you then no one would know and they are more likely to not make it past the first page. So I have come to the conclusion of adding in underneath the text box an explanation as to were you have to click to go to the other pages. Overall this research has helped me decide on the layout of my page and how I shall be creating links in interesting ways,

Tuesday 8 February 2011

3d text in phototshop

first get a black background and double the layer then create a gradient from black to white and then

create a text layer over the top after that whist on the text layer go to 3d Repousse and then text layer.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Unit 1: Capture

AssignmentOverview

This assignmentis aboutinvestigating and producing capture work ina chosen media or medium.

The assignment is divided into five stages:

http://aliciacapture.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-of-drawing.html

z Stage 4: Completing your capture work
http://aliciacapture.blogspot.com/2011/02/design-for-my-main-page.html
http://aliciacapture.blogspot.com/2011/01/link-bar.html

z Stage 5: Reviewing your own work
http://aliciacapture.blogspot.com/2011/02/evaluation.html

Tuesday 1 February 2011

3d

to make this 3d i multiplied the layer and then named one blue and one red

for the blue layer go to image , adjustment , curves

change the channel to red. click in the middle of the table and change the output to 0 and

change the input to 251

then for the red one change the channel to green and the output and input to the same numbers as the blue one

then do this again with the red layer but instead of green change it to blue

then after change the blend mode of the on top layer to screen

and then move the top layer to either the left or right to give the 3d effect

3d typogrphy

this was made in photo shop. we created them in wordle and then merged them together in photo shop buy turning the layers to 3d post cards. and merging them together After we used the rotate tool in photoshop to chnage the prespective or veiw. after we were happy with the angle we could then also go back and change what each layer looked like by double cliking the layyer and then changing it in a new window