Professional Portfolio Photobook

Photo Book Style Sheets - Final Project, Section II

Photo Book Style Sheets - Final Project

Progress Sheets

Stars

Stars sample style sheet

Framed

Eiffel Tower

Brushes

Brushes Sample Style Sheet

I have done a few of the Sheets for the Photo books.

For the Stars style sheet, I created a New Brush in Illustrator with a series of stars. I worked with shapes and gradient to give the sheet a glow. In Photoshop, I cut out the center white so the photo could be placed in the middle.

In Framed, I also created it in Illustrator. I drew out a frame holder, drew out a rectangle and framed that with a special brush.

Eiffel Tower was done in Photoshop and Illustrator - just a very simple layout that one could place their photos in. I used the sample of the Eiffel Tower, but any photo could be placed there as well as the two other photo holders.

Brushes was done in Photoshop with a series of special brushes and colors with several layers.

Final Project Proposal

Project Title: Keeping Your Memories, Photobook layout designs

Project Summary: The project will have two separate books, one with about 5 different sheets for the Photobook. I will use some of the design that were created during the course as well as some new designs to highlight portfolio work. The second book will be for client books that can be used for create your own photobooks sheets as one does on popular photo sites such as Snapfish and York. I’ll be creating a logo for my portfolio book design; but using photo layouts for the cover of the other book.

Software Applications: I will be using Photoshop and Illustrator to create the pages and designs. I will be doing layout through InDesign.

Project Goal: The goal for my project is to design a format to highlight the design work and photography work I do. The target audience for my portfolio book will be for a future employer or freelance project I pursue. The target audience for the second book is geared more toward friends and family who may wish to have photobooks created by images that I shoot for them.

Presentation: There will be still images put together as an ebook, ready for print, and burnable on to a CD.

In addition, please clarify the total amount of design pieces your final project will consist of.

There will be two books created, one book with about 8 pages; the second book with about 20 pages.

What's Your Story

My 3rd and final image for Brown's Jewelers is about Pandora charms again. The theme behind Pandora is that each bracelet becomes individualized based on the tastes, likes, hobbies and special moments of the owner. With that, I decided to go with a "What's your Story" - I took a photo of my Pandora bracelet in an S shape (for story). In Photoshop I polarized the repetition of "What's Your Story". I used the Penhurst font, which reminded me of old storybook style font. As a background, I used a variety of artistic brushes with two different colors. The image of the bracelet, I created an outline around the bracelet and then placed a mask over the top of that so only the S is viewable. I used the Dodge and Burn tools to blend in the bracelet to the best of my ability. I also reintroduced the logos that I had already made in Illustrator.

Design Competition

This is the 2nd image for a pseudo jewelry shop. This is another image that I did in a photo shoot. I took photos of some jewelry pieces I have. From the original image, I selected two areas to highlight in the Estate Jewelry pieces. I kept them colorized by creating a new layer for each one and made a polaroid-style border around them. After that, I merged those layers and warped the image a little to make it look like photos are slightly dog-eared or turned up. Back to the original image, I converted it to gray scale and adjusted the levels, followed by reducing the opacity to 90%. The logos of "Pieces of Me" and "Brown's" were both done in Illustrator.

Design Competition

I selected the Communication Arts Design Competition. I did a photo shoot of Pandora charms. I have often said Pandora is like an addiction. To create the image I used both Illustrator and Photoshop.

In Photoshop:

• The marque to copy and paste a couple of the charms to make the image a little more full.
• I used the burn tool to take some of the shine off the charms and the glass.
• I adjusted the color levels slightly.

In Illustrator:

• I created the "Brown's logo".
• I recreated the Pandora Charm by drawing out the crown over the "O". For each letter, I created outlines and adjusted the letters to make each one line up to the original Pandora logo. For starters, I used the Arial font and then worked from there.

Pink Floyd - The Wall

I kept with the basic theme of Pink Floyd's, The Wall, album cover. I used an image from Wikicommons of a a brick wall. I created 3 new layers of the same image adjusting each one so the bricks lined up as perfectly as I could get them after I flipped it horizontally. I then merged down each one of the layers to create 1 new layer. I copied the new image to create another layer, then tried to get a font as close to the original Pink Floyd font (using Yellowjacket) and adjusted the kearning to -50. I created a Clipping Mask by dropping the font into the brick image. I wanted to highlight, "Another Brick in the Wall" so I made another layer, used the Polygonal Lasso to highlight the one brick, inversed the selection and deleted it. I upped the opacity to make the brick stand out more.

Pink Floyd Album Cover: http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Pink-Floyd/dp/B000006TRV

Brick Wall, Wikicommons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brick_wall_old.jpg

Album Redesign

I decided to do a redesign of two of my favorite singers - Enya and Carrie Underwood. Enya is a classic perfectionist, Carrie Underwood is more of an energetic, clean and fun type of singer.

With the Enya redesign, I decided to redesign her album cover, Paint the Sky with Stars. I merged an image of her on the cover of her Amarantine album along with an image of stars in the sky that I found. I used the following tools:

• Dodge and Burn
• Pen Tool (Illustrator to duplicate Enya's 'logo')
• Magnetic Lasso
• Magic Wand
• Eraser
• Eyedropper
• Clone

With Carrie Underwood's, I redesigned her Some Hearts album cover. Carrie Underwood has a clean, energetic image. I decided to go with a simpler design. The color of the background is symbolic of energy. I tried to select an image of her that was more carefree and comfortable. The tools I used were:

• Dodge and Burn
• Magnetic Lasso, Polygonal Lasso and Pen Tool in Illustrator for the Hearts.
• Eraser
• Eyedropper
• Paint Bucket
• Clone
• Smudge

Enya

Enya, Paint the Sky with Stars: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B000024V8E/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music

Enya: http://www.uulyrics.com/music/enya/album-amarantine/

Night Sky: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000910.html

Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts:

http://www.amazon.ca/Some-Hearts-Carrie-Underwood/dp/B000BGR18W

Carrie Underwood image: http://impulsemagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Carrie-Underwood-photo-768x1024.jpg

Heart pillow image: http://www.romanceher.com/hotandcoldsoothing.htm

Tree Globe

Today I played around with a Filter in Photoshop under "Distort" called "Polar Coordinates". First I took 2 photos of the same tree that I shot a couple weeks ago - one during the day, one in the evening. I put the two side by side, put it through Polar Coordinates. After that I rotated the image, and used the Clone Tool.

Peppers

Through Adobe Illustrator, I recreated this image using a variety of tools in Illustrator. I have included both the original file and the recreated file for comparison.

• The primary tool used was the pen tool. I made adjustments with the Direct Anchor Tool to smooth out areas.
• In several areas, I created a gradient look using the Mesh tool.
• I also painted in areas using the Blob Brush Tool.