pool ball tutorial

today we did a tutorial on how to create a pool ball in photoshop. this was the end product
the way we did this was we used the gradient tool to create the background look then after that we created a new layer and made a ball buy using the selection tool then edit and fill.
after that we used the burn and doge tool to create a highlight and shadow on the ball. on a new layer we made a black circle and then i used Gaussian Burr to make it blurred then i moved it to were the shadow would be. after that i used the select tool and made a weird shape from 3 ovals and saved the selection then i made a selection of the ball and again saved it then i loaded the circle selection and the loaded the weird oval shape selection and clicked subtract from selection. then we chose select and inverse.
then we filled it with white. we then made a clipping mask and rubbed away some of the white so it was almost invisible.

cosplay

these are both girls cosplaying as male characters

Cosplay, short for "costume play," is a hobby in which participants design, construct, and wear costumes of their favorite anime, video game, comic, film, television, or book character.

there are allot of skills that are needed whilst doing cosplay. these skill are

• design
• sewing/tailoring
• hair styling
• makeup styling
• modeling
• photography
• acting 

costume
people often think that cosplay is just simply buying and wearing a costume that looks like a anime/video game character but it is actually allot more harder then that. most cosplayers create their own costumes so they can get as accurate as they can, because of this it takes quite a bit of time for the costume to be completed. most cosplayers also create their own accessories this also take allot of time. 
binding
in cosplay it is not uncommon for girls to cosplay as male characters and vice versa. so in order for girl to cosplay as a male character they use a method called binding that flattens their chest.
wigs
in cosplay wigs are always used. cosplayers don't use their own hair as this limits the characters they can be.
in most animes/video games the character has spiky hair so when it comes to styling the wig it take quite a bit of time and patients to style it as accurately as they can to the characters appearance.
makeup
all cosplayers whether they are female or male wear makeup. the first thing they nead to accomplish with makeup is to make their skin look as flawless as they can. then after they have done that they have to apply makeup to their eyes to make them look bigger the 'anime eye' affect. if a girl is cosplaying a boy it is even harder because they nead to make their eyes look bigger but they also nead to make sure that their makeup isn't girly. 
modeling
after the cosplayers costume is created and finished and their whole look is finished (hair, makeup)
they have photos taken so they can show to other people their finished costume etc. (like any other artist)
this part isn't as simple as just standing there and getting your photo taken. the things you nead to take into account is the personality of the character for example if the character you have chosen to cosplay never smiles then you wouldn't smile in your photo because then it would be out of character.
the second thing you nead to take into account is your surroundings for example with this picture it has been taken in a traditoal Japanese looking area and this suits the character because this character is from an  

anime that is about samurais and the olden time japan. then you also have to take into account your pose if you just stood there then you photo would not attract many views. so you nead to think of good poses to make the picture interesting the same as a model would. then the last thing you nead to take into account is props. for example this picture it has a samurai sword as a prop because the character they are cosplaying caries a sword with him.

eyes
even though eyes are a small part of the picture it is still a important part of the photo and cosplay. most anime/video game character has weird coloured eyes. for example this character has red eyes so in order for accuracy the cosplayer has bought and wearing red eye contacts. most cosplayers wear contacts to give a better affect because normally the character you cosplay has a different eye colour than the cosplayer

proposal

i want to design a website about cosplay. Cosplay, short for "costume play," is a hobby in which participants design, construct, and wear costumes of their favorite anime, video game, comic, film, television, or book characters.  i want to do this because of my personal interests. the website i want to design is not just about cosplay it will be about a cosplay group that i am part of in Plymouth.
for my website i will have to Analise a website that is similar to my idea for my website because there isn't an already existing website for the one i want to create.

analysis of diamond dust cosplay
this website has allot of pictures and information about the costumes and upcoming events. it tells us about the person that owns the website. it is helpful because it has a question and answer section which could help any people that are interested in this hobby. but unfortunately this website is only about one person. and also it doesn't have and tutorials or information that will help other cosplyers.

the design for this website isn't very creative. it does have pictures of the cosplays but i think that if it had brighter colours then it would be more interesting. this website does portray that it is about cosplay because of all the pictures i just think that they should change the colours and layout so it is a bit more interesting to look at. the only part of the logo that portrays cosplay is the word 'cosplay'

the deign for my group that i am making the website for does portray that it is about Plymouth cosplayers because it has the word 'plymouth cosplay' and another way in which it portrays what the group is about is because it has a picture of he Plymouth hoe on its logo.
overall it think that this website does portray what it is about but if i was to redesign this website i would chose a different layout so that the pictures are the first thing you see and also i would put a section in for tutorials or useful tips for other people i would also change the background colour and i might add a pattern onto the background to make it more interesting

the method of capture in this website  is the use of photograph. i am planing on using photography in my website as well. another type of capture i might use is filming and i will use writing as a form of capturing.

choosing this form of capture reflects my research because it shows that i have decided that photography would be the best way of capture for this topic i have decided to do a website about.

researching has proven to be very useful for the development of my ideas as before i did any research i did not have many ideas on what i could put on my website but after looking at other websites about the same thing it has shown me that i can put allot of things on for example i can put a page on my website about upcoming events and another page on the members etc. so yes this research has helped with the development of my ideas

things i could put on my website

• question and answer - a page were people can ask questions
• tutorials - tutorials on how we made our costumes
• members - the members and their cosplays
• upcoming events
• what is cosplay - describes what cosplay is and what you have to do

logos

history
there are allot of techniques that have contributed to the contemporary logo. some of them are cylinder seals, trans-cultural diffusion of logographic languages and the development of printing technology. as the industrial revolution developed typography and imagery being drawn together developed. and also advertising progressed because of the use of image and typography. 
art started to develop from story telling and decoration purposes to advertisement  
by 1890 the US had 700 lithographic printing firms employing more than 8,000 people.
info 

 today's style of logos started in the 1950s.  The Chase logo was the first truly abstract logo.
today many corporations , products, brands, services, agencies and other entities are using ideograms, emblems or a compilation of signs and emblems as a log. 

movie poster

this poster was for the movie " full metal alchemist : the conqueror of shambala"

the reason why i used thoes colours for the title is because the official logo had full metal writen in gray. like it was made from metal and then the word alchemist was writen in red. so instead of doing that i chnaged it so that the main title was in silver and the sub title was in red.

the way i created this font was i chose bevel and emboss and then it gave a metal affect. but for the text saying "full metal" i also chose outer glow and then changed the clour to blue.

the symbols in the background were made from a brush i had down loaded.

the reason for these symbols was because they apear freaquently in the moovie and in the anime, the reason for the colour is also the same because any of the symbols that apeared in the movie were blue.

the artwork does not belong to me i found these on google images. the reason for these pictures was because theses are the main characters so i had them on the poaster to show that they are important characters. once i had found the images i whanted i went around the parts that i wanted with the pen tool and the deleated the parts i didnt want

paths

first we used the pen tool and made a path around the dimond and the heart

 

we moved this horse from its origonal place. the way we did this was we chose the quick selection tool and the clicked refine edge. then we chose the black & white. then we told it to go onto a new layer. then after we selected the horse on the background layer then we whent to edit, fill, content aware and then we cliked ok. after that we could then move the horse on the other layer to were ever we wanted 

i moved this boy to the picture of the sea by using the quick selection toola and i used the refine edge option

shatter effect

the way we made this is we used the text tool and then we added various layer afects. then we used the polly laso tool and moved the pices we selected to make them look like it has shatered. after that we then added a new layer and made a circle selection with the laso tool then we cliked filter render and the clouds (make sure the colours you have are black and white)
but before you make the clouds go to select modify and feather. then chose 50 pixels.

after we made the cloud we used a raidiant blur on it to make it zoom outwards then we changed the colour buy pressing 'ctrl' 'u'