Week 4 - Blog Heading

BLOG HEADING - fashion addiction.

I created this blog heading using the watercolour brushes downloaded from 'Brusheezy', along with the other brushes on Photoshop. I downloaded a text font from 'Da Fonts'. Scanned up my sketch of the face and mannequin, then adjusted the hue and saturation, and then added the shading/watercolour brushes to the background and face. Filling in the lips with a bold red. Changed the layerings so that the 'Title-Text' was on top.

www.fashematics.com

design simplicity?

Week 3 - Photo Montage

(Created with the scanned images, 300 dpi, cut out using complex selection tools.)

Week 2 - Scanning Process & Image Modes

- SCANNING - 

How to scan in a UTS computer lab:

1. On the desktop click on the 'Macintosh HD' icon.

2. On the left hand side column click on 'Applications'.

3. Scroll down till you come across a program called 'Hewlett-Packerd' and select.

4. Select 'HPScan'.

5. Choose to scan a 'picture'/image

6. Place your item(s) on the scanner and click 'scan' when you are happy with the object's position etc.

7. Change the resolution of the image (dpi) to the appropriate number, 72-96 dpi for internet/blog posts images, 150-200 dpi for digital/lazer inkjet printers or 300 dpi for commercial printing. For this task change resolution to 300 dpi.

8. Once scanned onto the computer, adjust any setting (saturation/shadows/hue etc.) necessary.

9. Save to the 'Public' folder, in 'D' folder, in 'DFC' folder, in 'S' for Simone Yow - rename files if necessary.

10. Now that it is on the UTS public server, transfer these images to your USB as a back up/portable & transferable file. 

- IMAGE MODES -

RGB (Red, Blue, Green) is the primary mode for graphics and has a smaller file size than CMYK suitable for Web images.

CMYK (Cyan, Magenta,Yellow and Black)are pigmented colours that printers use which is why all RGB muct be converted to this mode before printing.

Greyscale changes the image into different shades of grey/black/white (approx 256). NOTE: when you convert an image to this mode you CANNOT go back.

Duotone- two colours

Bitmap- Black and White 

sass & bide S/S 2012 lookbook 12.12.2011, viewed 10 March 2012

<http://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/fashion/sass-bide-ss-2012-lookbook.htm?index=5>

Week 1 - Favourite Blogs

- JAK & JIL -

Entirely visual! So effective i think, insanely engaging with clean edited photos. Photos from all over the world - florence - NYC - Paris - different people, contexts, clothes, colours, but together form a cohesive collection. The content of the photos are of daily activities and actions, incorporating their keen sense of fashion and styling through their subject's fashion ensembles! Love it.


Looking at the blog, the layout is bold, although too wide in my opinion to be entirely effective. The pictures are too small and off to the side with the captions/text running all along the page!

http://jakandjil.com/

- FASHION DISTRACTION -

This is a very visually engaging blog! Posts consist of images and photos taken of the blogger's interests, experiences, and centred around fashion/design. I like how she transforms and edits her photos to enhance and lock in her audience's interest. The combination of an online store selling the clothes she has incorporated in her blog + the actually blogging of her fashion/style, incorporated into everyday life, sets up a large platform for her followers to connect to and explore/see.

http://www.fashiondistraction.com/

- STREETFSN -

Modern. Hip. Engaging. Innovative. Visually Vibrant!

I like how STREETFSN only uses visual images again, similarly to JAK&JIL - the content is modern, fashion based and stylish, but it also incorporates artistic photos, in-the-moment captures of life and movement. The clarity and focus to detail in all of the photos is intense and effective! This blog is inspirational and bold. 

http://streetfsn.blogspot.com.au/