Reflective: Homework:

Today I spent most of the day finishing and tweaking the 'Choc de more' project leaflet that me and Rebecca created at the begining of this module. Unfortunately Rebecca wasn't there, this made the work tricky for me because I found it very difficult to fully grasp the skills needed to use the tools provided in the program Photo-shop as well as to avoid typographical errors; For example, when I was finishing the leaflet I needed to add text to it so as to make what we where about and what we where selling clear; I needed to ask for help allot when inserting pictures as well. I found asking for help very rewarding because I could go back, if I had made the same mistake again, such as inserting pictures, and solve the problem on my own. From asking I learnt how to use and create different layers, change colours and insert text. I found it very satisfying to do that on my own. I found it helpful to use the crop tool when editing pictures and text size when tweaking the leaflet to get everything to fit on, look nice and to look presentable.

This is my finished product

Overall, I think completing and tweaking my leaflet was successful because I learnt new skills and applied them to this piece of work. I worked hard on trying to come up with slogans and meal deals to suit the leaflet and I think that it was time well spent. Next as an individual task to exercise and develop our skills as a class using Photo-shop we had to take a picture of anything we wanted and make it into a poster of some sort as if we where selling the image to the public. At this point I had started working with Kimberly who had just joined the CRAM group. We had took a picture of a car. This is the starting picture:

As you can see, in this picture there are allot of things that stand out. Such as the side of another car just peeking in , the background and in the corner the sun is caught on the lens creating rays of light across the top of the picture. We decided to get rid of the car in the bottom left hand corner because we saw it as an obstruction in the picture. However this was tricky because it meant getting rid of some of the main car we where focusing on as this picture shows:

Compared to the first picture, you can see that by using the cropping tool in photo-shop you can get rid of the obstruction, however it cuts off some of the selling point, which is problematic because the focus/selling point is the car. As shown by this picture:

This picture shows the main selling point which we where trying to focus on from the beginning. We decided to run with the rays of sun running along the top of the picture for effect, as to make it look brand new and appealing to the audience. We used a tool called curves to darken and lighten the picture and create a brighter edge so as to make the audience's eye steer directly onto the selling point. i.e. the car. This is shown in this picture:

I think the effect used works really well and creates an angelic atmosphere around the car making it stand out and noticeable to an audience. We then wanted to make it seem brand new and perfect for anyone looking to buy a new car. We did this by using a tool called 'solar' which created rings of sun light around a certain area of the car making it seem just how we wanted it. This made the work easier on us because we got the result we wanted. As shown In our final picture:

I'm very pleased with the way our final picture turned out, however I think we could have worked on the background of the picture because the setting isn't right for a promotional picture; unfortunately we had run out of time before we could have changed it. Personally, I have been pleased today by how I have worked and developed my skills in learning how to use Photo-shop more efficiently. I think I have also used my initiative because I asked for help when I didn't understand something. This helped me when I had made the same mistake again. I think I need to put a little more effort into understanding the programs I am using such as Photo-shop. I also need to contribute more in lessons to progress in the task that I have been given, rather than to let somebody else answer questions, such as when we are doing group discussions.