MCG2-Project Charter.

Project Charter Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Title: Printout Postcard for the theme “Malaysia, Truly Asia”.

Project Start Date: 20^thNovember 2008

Project Finish Date: 28 November, 2008.

Project Manager: Raguvararaj s/o Muthualagu

HP: 019-9301829

Email: raguvararaj@yahoo.com.sg

Website: http://mcg1014-1071112744.blogspot.com

Project Objective: Students are to create a multi-cultural event for a post card. The theme would be
“Malaysia, Truly Asia” which is the official slogan for Malaysia Tourism. Students are to show the multi-cultural aspects of Malaysia culture or life as a positive feature to attract tourist into this country.

Approach: First of all before creating the postcard, I set the pixels to 300pixels and adjusted the size to 6 x 8. I used few images such as, Malaysian flag, our Malaysian ethnics, unity and fireworks image. There are few basic tools that I used to create my postcard. Such as, mask layer, some tools from the filter gallery, lasso, crop, text, distort, twirl, drop shadow and inner shadow. There will be some changes before I finish up my work. I updated the process of creating my postcard on my blog soon. I used full use of the internet to find some video about photoshop experts and I learnt a lot from the videos. The making process are be explained in detail in my blog.

Roles and Responsibilities:

My timeframe:

-20^th/11 – I downloaded the pictures and added on photoshop.

-22^nd/11- I played with the images by adding effects and trying all

the tools to learn more.

-24^th/11 – I looked through some videos to learn from it and imply

on work.

-25^th/11 – Today I am going to finish my work by 85%. By tonight

or tomorrow morning, I will make it done. By tomorrow

I will consult madam Lydia for her advice.

-27^th/11 – I will finish my work and submit in my blog and print it

out .And the final worl I will submit the next day, which is on 28^th/11.

Comment: I did learnt a lot of things during this journey of mine doing the 1^st assignment. I learnt how to make a picture look real, how to put drop shadow, how to put colors on an image, how to crop an image and a lot of other things. I did had difficulties on adding effects and play with the image. The videos from the tutorial and the videos from internet improved my learning process.

MCG 2 - My Assignment 1 -Malaysia Truly Asia

MCG2-Assignment1This is the 1st step for my assignment. I used the fireworks picture as my background. I adjusted its opacity to 90%.And then, I selected the image and created a new adjustment layer with hue and saturation. The result from the adjustment can be seen above.
Next, I added the malaysian flag image. I clicked CTRL+with the images edge to adjust the image. I copied another image of that flag, and reduced the opacity. And I drag the copied layer below the real flag.
Here are the texts. Malaysia Truly Asia. I used the text tool. For each text , I created a back layer with 47% opacity for each text and represent them with 3 different colors which are in Malaysia's Flag.
I added the picture of four main ethnics in Malaysia, Kadazan/Iban, Chinese, Indian and Malay. I added the pictures one by one. 1st I added a picture and distort it. I reduced the opacity and used the twirl under Filter-Distort. I arranged the pictures in order at the right side of the postcard.
This is where I added the picture which symbolizes unity. The unity word is written in 3main language used in Malaysia. I right clicked on the image at the layers panel and clicked blending options and I added drop shadow with purple color and inner shadow, so that the text can be seen clearly.
The FINAL result...:)

MCG2-2nd tutorial

This is the original picture which I used for the 2nd tutorial. A girl with a file, and a car. MMU girl?? No one knows..except the photographer.. hahaha..

So, the 1st step... I created a new layer right at the layers panel. (bottom, left, down)After that, I used the brush tool to colour the car. I set the layers mode to 'color' and picked the colour blue. And i brushed all over the car by adjusting the diameter at every different phase.The next step, I used the pen tool to mark the file. I clicked the paths panel and added the outcut of the top part of the file and save selection as channel at the channels panel. I did the same thing for the bottom part of the file.


Finally, I press CTRL + the top and bottom part of the file at the layers panel. And I added gradient.This is the final result

MCG2- 1st tutorial

My 1st TutorialAs this is my 1st tutorial, I learnt alot of things. Photoshop is realy nice to use. And this is the 1st step I did for the 1st tutorial picture. I set up the ruler as shown in the video.
This is the effect in the middle after I added the Gausian Blur.
And, this the 1st star which I added to the background.
2 more stars added. And I reshaped the size to make them look like they are falling down.
Then, I added some radial blur effects to the stars to make them look real. And after that, I used sketch effect on the tv-screen and adjusted it to a proper shape and add it to the building appropriately. And added drop shadow.This is the final result after I added few more effects that I learnt from the video lesson.
As a result, this is the final output after I put some colours to all the stars..
The video lesson really makes me easy to understand about this lesson. Hope to learn more and improve myself in Photoshop.