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Retouching

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 Retouching is one of the most helpful ways to edit an image and improve it visually. It includes 3 parts, blending or removing the objects to blend, stamping or cloning a part of image, and content awareness to remove a part of the image and blend it.  This is a picture of the cat used for cloning before This is after the cloning, I decided to clone the cat to give it an illusion of playing with a friend. as you can see the images are improved without much destruction and helped to look visually pleasing showcasing the stamping technique.  This is a picture of a cat before blending This shows after blending, though not much noticeable I noticed a lot of furs on top of its head and decided to remove it as well as removing the small dots in the volleyball in the background. My using the spot brush healing tool.  This shows content awareness before edits. This shows after, as you can see the walking place is now gone and blended with the mountain itself, I did this by ...

Adjustment Layers

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 Adjustment layers are like effects that help for visuals in certain projects to stand out. There are many involving Hue/saturation, vibrance, channel mixer, exposure and effects such as invert and so on. Adjustment Layers are good ways to enhance your design with more than one effect.  This shows a brightness/contrast effect which helps to bring up the brightness of the image and contrast it more meaning giving more detail, adding this can help in visuals working with music posters and so on. This one shows a unique effect called channel mixer, it gives the color and helps to mix it throughout the image, this is pretty interesting because when working with things that deal with typography alongside another set of posters this could come in handy though I'm not too sure how it would go. This shows a hue/saturation which increases the intensity of the color within an image, this helps give it a more solidifying look. This image is similar to the exposure in a sense of how it in...

Shadows

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 For the recent project called robot finals, we worked on making a robot based on different parts from many things we liked such as a pipe for arms and a square for the head. My robot was consistent based on an old computer head, card board box for the neck holding, a little tower for a body and square metal for the torso. I first imagined my robot as being able to sustain during heat and last in sunny times which led me to choosing a background based on sun in order to create an almost realistic looking shadow helping the people get appealed to.  This is my robot and the finals with the robot in the background of the sun, and made the shadow a little to the right to show the illusion of realistic.  This is the robot without the background showing how I made it, It was not as creative as ones others made but it really was something I enjoyed so I liked it a little bit, the wheels is also very funny to me. In order to create a good robot you have to mask your layers in ord...

Image File Format

  raster (bitmap) jpg - A  digital image file that uses a compression process to store and share photos png. Stands for Joint Photographic Experts. gif -  A GIF file is  a raster image file that supports animation and uses the .gif extension .  GIFs are often used to create short, looping videos bmp -  BMP file, or bitmap file, is  a raster image file format that stores digital images .  BMP files are uncompressed and are known for their high image quality.   psd - Photoshop Document, adobe file used to store and edit images in potoshop. Photoshop files include multiple layers allowing for edits that is not possible in other file formats such as jpg. It is a highly regarded raster file which could also be classified as vector.  tiff-   A TIFF stands for Tag Image File Format file is  a raster image file format that stores high-quality images heic -  HEIC stands for  High Efficiency Image Container . The format i...

Image Resolution

  1. What is the difference between 300ppi and 72ppi?  The difference between 300 ppi and 72 ppi is that 72 ppi is the typical resolution for webpages and 300 ppi are the high quality for prints.  When got with a small image, the typical resolution it comes with would be 72 ppi, where making the image bigger would not change much and will look bad with pixelated. The concept of garbage in and garbage off, making it bigger would not change anything. 72 ppi can be good depending on the situations however 300 ppi is mostly considered better as it is typical for high resolutions.  2. Why is that important for the graphic designer doing print projects? The difference in resolution is important for graphic designers because you need to understand the quality of images when working for clients.  When working with design aspects, for your clients you need a high quality resolution in order to show professionalism as a designer. Resolution is important to measure the vis...