6. fmp production reflection

6. fmp production reflection

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  PRODUCTION REFLECTION Harriet Smith
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  PROCESS First I openedup photo shop and selected the photos that I wanted to edit. I then went to the task bar and selected ‘Filter Gallery’ from the drop down bar ‘Filter’.
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  PROCESS I imported theimage I wanted to edit and then I went down to the magnification setting and selected the option ‘fit on screen’. I did this because it allows you to see the full image rather than having to zoom in and out.
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  After setting themagnification, I looked at various effects that I could use on my images. I found that there was one effect that I liked using, which was called ‘Cutout’. I used that for two of my images, as you can see. I liked this effect because it limits the colour palette to an analogous scale. I chose this effect because I
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  PROCESS I also lookedat trying to overlap effects with other effects as you can see in these two photos. I liked some of the outcomes I made by merging two effects together but decided not to use that in my final product, since having 2/3 effects on one image made it look untidy. I did this because I wanted to see what effects would work best with the various images I’ve taken. I think this effect would appeal to my audience because the style is quite simple. I tried using this effect called ‘Glowing Edges’ to see if it would work well with my images. My only problem with the effect is that you can’t see the image clearly. I did this because I wanted to see what effects would work best with my images. I think that this effect wouldn’t appeal as much to my audience since you are unable to see the image clearly.
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  I experimented withthe number of layers I could use with the ‘cutout’ effect. I found that that the number that worked best was 5, this is because you can still see original parts of the image and the effect isn’t as obvious. I decided to use this effect because I think it matches well with my chosen theme. I think this effect will also appeal to my audience because the style is quite simple but it’s also eye-catching.
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  I tried mergingtwo different effects to see if they would work well together and make the image look appealing, which went well. I ended up using two effects, ‘cutout’ and ‘plastic wrap’. I decided to use these two effects because I wanted to experiment to see what
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  PORTFOLIO In order tocreate my Portfolio I chose the photos I had taken previously and placed them into different slides along with my edits, making sure to talk and go into detail about how I made the edits, why I chose to make said edits/use certain effects and also talk about what I could have done to improve my work. I chose more than one image for each slide, making sure that each image was linked together (e.g. they were taken at the same location and/or have some sort of correlation with each other). Although the effects used in my edits are quite similar (if not the same), I still used the effect since it made my images look more appealing because of the detail it adds (e.g. it adds more definition to certain parts of the image in which you can edit in Photoshop). An advantage of using Photoshop to make my product is that you’re able to alter any effects you choose, meaning you can decide on how much of the original image you want to see and how much of the effect you want. A weakness of using Photoshop is that the range of effects provided are very limited in creativity, meaning that they are all quite similar in style. This made it hard to decide on what effects I wanted to use. In order to improve this, I
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  PROCESS: REFLECTION An advantageof using the “Filter Gallery” is that there are a lot of different effects to choose from. I think I will use the same method of editing my photos as I did with my experiments. I will do this because there a lot of effects to use and I can also try to use more than just one effect on one image. A disadvantage of using tools such as “Filter Gallery” is that the effects all look slightly similar (e.g. in terms of what the effects does to the image). A weakness of using Photoshop to edit my images is that there are a lot of tools to use and you can easily get confused by it. I could avoid this by using another form of software. I would do this because it would allow me to see what other kinds of effects and tools I can use to edit photos. Another advantage is that editing my images using the effects given on Photoshop is not very time consuming, meaning I will not be spending a huge amount of time editing my images. This also means that I will have more time to create my Portfolio as well as