Raguvararaj Muthualagu - Computer Graphics

MCG 2 - Assignment 2 - References.

2008-12-22T17:51:00.000-08:00

MCG2-5th Tutorial

2008-12-18T17:25:00.000-08:00

This is the original picture where we are suppose to apply what we learnt from the tutorial.
Ok. This is the 1st step of the tutorial. 1st i zoomed to the hand part of the man. And we are suposed to put flames over his hand. So, at 1st, I selected the lasso tool, and I draw a simple fire shape.
After that, I click the D button to select the default color. And I clicked alt+backspace to give white color inside the fire. And I added Gaussian blur effect to make the flame look soft at the edges.
And then, I selected the brush tool and reduced the hardness to zero. And adjusted the diameter to a proper size.
I darken the area around the flame using the brush tool. And then, I turned off the visibility of the background. I selected the flame and clicked define brush preset under the edit bar. And I named it flame. So it is already a new brush pattern now.
I turned on the visibility and i created a new layer. And I selected the new brush from the brush palette. I clicked X to invert the default color. I added the brush effect of the flame with random size.
On this step, I created a box and added 2 colors which is red and yellow. And added the clouds effect.
I brought the colored box to the flame and set to an appropriate shape. And selected the layers outside the flame and delete it. Now, the flame has its color.
I added the liquify effect to the flames to make it look real. And I copied the flames to another hand and flipped it horizontal.
This is the final effect. I added some fire shape above his head and reduced the opacity. I also added some fire shape using the same techniques above his shoulders and knees. And reduced the opacity to give a warming effect. The end of tutorial 5.:)

My Assignment 2

2008-12-16T13:45:00.000-08:00

MCG 2 - Assignment 2 work Done.
~1st of all, I would share with you all about where I got the idea or inspiration from. I went through some videos I downloaded where photoshop experts share their experience on working with their projects. So I gain few ideas from there. The background of my wallpaper and the lighting effect that I gave to the words are few ideas that I gain through the video.~

Ok. This is the beginning step of my assignment 2. I used the lens flare effect to create my background. A simple one.I adjusted the lens type to a proper setting and adjusted the brightness to 115. It looked just nice.
Now, we can see the focused lighting effect coming from the bright point. That focused lighting effect I created by using the lasso tool. I created a long cone shape and filled it white color, and reduced the opacity. I added a round shape on top and reduced the opacity but brighter than the cone shape because I want to put wordings there. And I added the Gaussian blur effect to the shapes to make it look real.
Then, I added the text. I created the FOM letter in capital. And I added the gradient color for temporary which is red white and blue. And I added few blending effects which is drop shadow and inner shadow.
I added two round shapes behind both of the wordings and reduced the opacity.
Here I added the MMU logo on top of my wallpaper and distort the image. I duplicated few layers till the end while reducing each of their opacity.
And then, I added three images of FOM building structures. But before that, we can see that my wordings and the shapes now look better. I changed the color and added Gaussian blur effect to the big round shapes and adjusted the text to look better.Here is our hero of the wallpaper. MMU Mascot!!:) I added his image and used the brush strokes effect to make him look better. Angle strokes is the effect I choose because it suits him well. And I adjusted the direction balance, stroke length and sharpness to a proper level. I even added some blending effects for him. Next, I added some effects to our images. Here I uses the brush strokes effect as well. But I added the sumi-e effect. It gives a simple nice look for the image. And I adjusted the contrast to 19. It looked simply simple.. The same effect is used for all the 3 images.Getting to the final touch. I adjusted the brightness and contrast to a proper level. And here it is. The digital wallpaper for FOM OPEN DAY.:)Work done. FOM OPEN DAY : Digital Wallpaper...

MCG2 - 4th Tutorial

2008-12-11T06:15:00.000-08:00

First of all, I started with the wordings layer. I went to the gradient editor and set a cool warming colour. The combination of blue and green. I added the drop shadow, inner shadow, outer glow, and satin effects on the wording.
And then I copied the effects i put for the wording and applied to the drops. So that they look balanced and simple.
And then, as guided in the tutorial, I created the green layers copy in the channels pallete. And I added the gaussian blur effect.
After done all that, I added the effect for the background. I used plastic wrap effect under the artistic effect tool and I adjusted Detail, Smoothness, and the highlight strength. It looks just nice for the background. I applied the effect.

Finally, I used my basic skills to touch up the small wordings. I adjusted the paint tool to color mode. I selected blue and green and gave the wordings some effects with round shape.
And this is the final output..:)

MCG 2 - Project Charter 2

2008-12-08T20:16:00.001-08:00

Project Charter Assignment 2

Assignment 2 Title: Digital Wallpaper for the theme “FOM Open Day”.

Project Start Date: 8th Disember 2008

Project Finish Date: 23rd Disember 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 digital image as a wall paper. The event or theme is MMU FOM Open day dated March 21st, 2009.
As such, students are to create a poster to show the characteristics or features of FOM to advertise or to promote their faculty.
The size of the wallpaper will be A4

Approach: First of all before creating the wallpaper, I set colour mode to RGB. I used few images such as, mmu logo, students picture, mmu mascort, and FOM building image. There are few basic tools that I used to create my wallpaper. 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 will update the process of creating my wallpaper 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:
-8th/12 – I downloaded the pictures and added on photoshop.
-9th/12- I played with the images by adding effects and trying all
the tools to learn more.
-15th/12 – I will look through some videos to learn from it and imply
on work.
-16th/12 – Today I will show my 80% finished work. Will consult madam Lydia
for advice
-22nd/12 – I will finish my work and submit in my blog and wil submit the final work through mmls before 23rd/12

Comment: I did learnt a lot of things during this journey of mine doing the 1st 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.

MCG2-3rd tutorial

2008-12-04T19:10:00.000-08:00

MCG 2- 3rd tutorial
I started my work with this image. I selected the path panel and clicked while pressing CTRL. And I added new layer on the Layers panel.I added a new layer in the channels panel where it shows Layer1. And then I selected the lines tool to add the lines.
I added the white lines with different weights and this is the result after disable the view of RGB channels.

Here I adjusted the level after added the short lines and other effects.This is where I added the filter -brush strokes - spatter. And I adjusted the spray radius and smoothness.

This is the final result. I colourized the money to red colour.

MCG2-Project Charter.

2008-11-26T03:53:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-26T03:02:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-26T01:16:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-20T03:50:00.001-08:00

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.

Assignment 3 - real meaning behind the poster

2008-09-11T00:03:00.000-07:00

The real meaning:

Conserve Power.
People are using alot of energy such as high heat releasing lamp and things like that.
And the elctricity as well. This increases the temperature of the world.
So, I selected WINDMILL as an alternative to conserve energy.
By saving power, we can reduce the temperature. Hence, we can reduce global warming.
One world, one simple way to care about it. Conserve Power.
Lets make a difference.

Assignment3-references

2008-09-10T20:12:00.001-07:00

Assignment 3 - my sketch

2008-09-10T19:59:00.000-07:00

My assignment 3 - output

2008-09-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

This is my finalised output for assignment3:
And all myo processes and references I'm updating as fast as I can since I had some technical prolem with my blog.
Now I'm updating it. Sorry for the inconvinience caused.

My Assignment 2

2008-08-13T18:34:00.001-07:00

The sites below are the sites which I referred to for ideas:
http://www.travelblog.org/
http://www.inhabitat.com/
http://www.toledoretail.com/
And these are the two finalists who are selected for my assignment 2. And the 1st one won the assignment 2 title.=)

Now,The processing story:
At 1st, I placed the picture I wanted to sketch as template and locked it. The whole windmill I drew using the pentool. And I added some drop shadow for the windmill. The windmill fan's are applied with proper brushes so that they look realistic. I added gradient to the windmill.
And the fan is added with proper brush with proper gradient filled in the fan to make it look simple and nice.
The sky..I drew a circle and added proper gradient inside.And I copied and pasted it with various shape. And then I changed the colour of the circles to suite like the sky colour in the original picture. As a result, I finished the assignment successfully.

My Assignment 1 - updated...

2008-07-23T11:18:00.000-07:00

*Save Energy, Reduce Temperature*

So, after some hard efforts on the symbol and few consultation and guidance from Mdm.Ling, I've completed my symbol..Thanks to Madam for all the guidance..

All new and updated symbol.Here it is:

My aspect of Global Warming is " Energy Saving "..

It is globally known that excessive usage of energy increases the heat and the temperature of this world..And it is one of the main cause of Global Warming.

Based on my symbol, it represents two things actually:

1. The energy saving bulb( fluorescent bulb ), which can save 75% less energy than standard light bulbs and lower the enrgy bills. The light orange yellowish colour showing us the small amount of heat released by it which can help to control our global temperature level. Thus, we can prevent Global Warming.

2.The windmilll which is used for electricity generation naturally without harming the environment could reduce the temperature level as well.. The green colour shows us the natural process of the windmill to produce energy and at the same time reminding us to care and protect our green environment, one of God's beautiful gift to the earth and human being.

* In a nutshell, all of us should start to save energy by using fluorescent bulb in our houses and governments should do more project on building windmill farms to make this world a better place without Global Warming.

My References (Assignment 1) - Updated...

2008-07-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

These are my few references:

www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/windmill.html

www.pixelatestudio.com/engmolens.htm

http://www.windmillworld.com/

www.topbulb.com/find/energy_saving_light_bulbs.asp

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/

My Sketches and Ideas (Assignment 1) - updated...

2008-07-23T10:49:00.000-07:00

Well, this is my newest version of my assignment 1..

after the presentation, I had a discussion with Mdm.Ling and I realised that my 1st symbol with the question mark is not abstract and I should do a better symbol to get A.

So, as a result, the next day itself i started to sketch few symbols by refering to a book I borrowed from Mdm.Ling. This is the symbol that I came up with.

It shows that the earth inside crying like a baby which needed to be taken care of and the leaves as the windmill concept. But, after some consultation and guidance from Mdm.Ling, I decided to do something different rather than putting the earth crying.. An energy saving Bulb!!

These are few examples of the windmill and the bulb pictures.:

My Assignment 1

2008-07-16T18:11:00.000-07:00

The Meaning Behind The Symbol:

*The Question Mark- It Sparks A question to the viewer itself on "What" are we suposse to do to reduce the global warming.. And "When" are we going to realise that the world is dying day by day...We have to take action as soon as possible and save this world..
* The drip Of Water - This is my aspect of global warming. A drip of water.
Most of us are not realising that the water level in our world is decreasing day by day due to the increase of temperature globally. So, we have to appreciate even a drip of water nowadayas for a better future ahead..
* The Missing Top of the Mountain - Shows that the ice is melting dramatically due to global warming.
* The sun - The main source or cause of global warming. Because of its sunray which passes through the ozon layer.

The Colours
* Blue - symbolizes the colour of the water n peaceful environment that we should bring to this world.
* Red, Orange And Yellow - Symbolizes the sun and the heat released by it.

My Sketches and Ideas..

2008-07-15T22:08:00.000-07:00

"Aspects of Global Warming"
That was the topic given to us..
A drip of water and a question mark is my idea..:D
These are the few beginning sketches that I did...
~ This sketch I did during our 1st class with Dr.Ken while taking notes..The starting point..
~ And this is the following sketch I did on the next week. Trying to put something related to solar energy.. I found it a bit complicated.. those writings are the overall descriptions of the symbol..
~ So, i came up with this simple symbol.. which needed a few touch up on it..
~ As a result, i came up with the symbol below after consulting with our great lecturer, Dr.Ken..:D

My References

2008-07-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

1st of all..
references... to be frank here, my references was my brain..
i used to create things myself and come up with something new..
and so do for this assignment.. i did refer through few web pages, but i came up with my own idea.
the result is a simple symbol with a question mark in front of a melting iceberg and a drip of water..
we were asked to complete this assignment with the topic " Aspects Of Global Warming"..
So, i choose a drip of water and a question mark for my assignment..:D
these are the web pages that i was referring to:
*http://www.janeresture.com/oceania_warming1/
*http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/
*http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/global-warming-aspects

This is me..

2008-07-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

Hallooo everyone.. I'm ragu here.. Blogging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool..

Its one of the famous way to communicate with people around the world and share knowledge nowadays..spreading very fast among teenagers actualy.. And spreading even more faster with our Computer Graphics class!!! hahaha..true right. every year all students in this class creating more and more blogs..but what's the use if its not updated..So, keep your blogs updated guys.. hmm..my opinion actualy.. well, different people have their own different opinion right.. Its all Good in a way..:) I used to play computer games, download alot of applications and all sort of things in my laptop.. He is my best friend..Recently, I started to play with the tools in graphic applications and edit graphics. Its kinda interesting.. And as now we all in a Computer Graphics class, I wish I could learn more and improve my skills in this area...:) thats all for today's blog... see you all around.