Ninth Session: Photoshop

In today's session, we realised that we were almost finished with our final leaflet. All there is to it is to add the Shakin' Moo's font to the final flyer and then we would be pretty much done. Plus, we needed to tweak our final design as it still had crop marks, lasso and magnetic lasso marks (the marks are white leftovers from cropping). All we needed to do with these is just to rub them out. We used the blur tool for this on Adobe Photoshop. Here are the images before and after:

Unfortunately, you cannot see the change clear enough because the change we done was very minimal. What I can tell you is that the edges of the cup are smoother and sharper after and previously it was a little bit jagged. We used the blur tool for this. However, it seems simple but it is not. You will need to zoom into the image from 150%-200%. This is because it is very difficult to clear the extra lines and leftovers from far away and normal image size. Also, you need to be careful using the blur tool because if you make a mistake, it just might erase some of the cup. Here is another example that will be clearer to see:

As you can see, the image before has quite a lot of extra white bits, mainly in the corners (between the legs and arms). Again, to solve this we used the blur tool again. It was really difficult to do the corners because one little slip can erase more than the corner. Eventually, the image has no excess white bits left. There is no problem to leave a little white behind as it could give the image a glow.

Meanwhile, the IT came to unlock the control panel because of the administrator blocking us to install the font for our leaflet. Plus, he helped us install the font so we were able to use it. Whilst the IT guy was installing the font, I said to make the Shakin' Moo's mascot smaller because the font needs to be big. So, we made the mascot smaller (left picture) in order to do that. When the font was ready, we wasted no time getting the font onto the flyer because we had to wait so long. Here is the flyer with the text on:

Already it looks more appealing. Matiss and James thought we did not need to do anything else with the font. I had an idea. I said to add yellow to the font as on the draft, it had yellow on the blank bits. I thought that these would make it even more appealing. My group members agreed. Unfortunately, we did not have time to do because the IT guy took ages to download the font...

I had an idea to create the location services on the back of the flyer. My group agreed with this as well. I will talk about this more the next three weeks because we have got half term and no CRAM Media on next week.

I do not think we needed any targets this week as we have done not that much to our flyer because of the IT guy coming in extremely late. We could of finished the flyer if he came in on time!

Next three weeks, we will be improving the flyer as well as the font. I will continue with the location services and talk more about them. I may show you some pictures on my blog.