Making of calender - Fong Fong [ January ]

Reference image

January

JANUARY 

Preview Final Work

Step 1

Load a beach as a background.

Step 2

Erase the Starfish and use the Healing Brush Tool to make the Beach look like same.

Step 3

Choose a river image and crop a part of the water. 

Cut and paste the part that have choose.

Place the water onto the file. Use Brush Tool to smooth the edge as below.

Step 4

Load the music adjustment you want. 

Cut and paste the violin image onto the document.

Step 5

 Noise to the violin and get ready for the water splashing effect later on. 

       Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and apply the following setting:

The effect after noise the violin. Place it in the suitable location.

Step 6

Now we can paint some water splashing effect around text. 

Create a new layer called “water splash” , choose some brushes from the set and paint around the violin,

 as shown below: 

Make sure when you paint the water splashing effect, use a combination of big and small sized brushsets, also adjust the flow and opacity of the brush, DO NOT just use one setting for the whole thing.

    Keep adding more water splashing around the text.

     Step 7

       Now we will make the water splash around the Violin sharpen a bit. 

                             To do this, duplicate the water splash layer, group the several layers of the water splash, then

             right-click to choose "merge group" option. 

Violin has been choose for January.

Final as below:

Making of calender - Wei Shin [ May ]

MAY 2011


                         Create a new file then set 300 resolutions. Then name as Calender May 2011.

                    Now, place a picture then then used quick selection tool to selection the part that need.

Next, place another picture. 

Adjust the curves.

Next, adjust the brightness/Contrast.

Crop a part of cloud from the background picture. 

Place another picture. Then crop it out. 

Place the planet picture.

Cut out the moon by using quick selection tool. Next, used eraser to erase lower part to join with the cloud.

Add some brushes.

Place the ' Ruan' picture. Change it to Multiply. So that the white background can't see.

After change it to multiply.

Used the brusher to put some effect make the music instrument stands up.

Lastly, put the calender template.

Finally, It is DONE.

Calender Template

Create a new file, set it as A4 size with 300 resolutions.Name it as "calender template".

Drag the guide lines to divided the space evenly. 

Using Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to draw a rectangle within guide lines. 

Shift + Ctrl+ I to select inverse, create a new layer and name it as "texture background".

 Press Shift + F5, fill up with musical note pattern. 

 Double-click on the layer thumbnail to access Blending Options >> Color Overlay. Change the color of filled-up texture background with blue color.

Change the layer's opacity to 30 % . Below is the outcome so far.

 Create a new group and name it as "florid border".

Open Adobe Illustrator and choose a symbol from Florid Vector Pack and import it into Photoshop. 

Place it as vector smart object under the "florid border" group. Adjust the size and place it as suitable place. Name the layer as "florid border".

Duplicate the layer three times and place it as like below.

 Create a new layer and name it as "note background" and use Rectangular Marquee Tool to draw a rectangle and fill it with white color , 50 % opacity.

Create a new layer and name it as "holiday background" and use the same method as just now to create a smaller white background for the holiday part.

Create a new layer and name it as "note line" .Using Pen Tool >> Paths to draw a line on the note background. Pressing Shift to make sure the line is straight. Right-click >> Stroke Path >> Pencil and remember to tick the Simulate pressure box.

 Duplicate the line and arrange it nicely to become note pad.

Using Horizontal Type Tool to add text on the template.

Create a new group and name it as "Date" .Using Horizontal Type Tool to type the date and month onto the template under the "Date group".

Lastly, I create a new group name "template" and place all the layer and group created just now into the group folder so that it look more neatly and not mixed with the calender image done by us later.

Finally, the template is DONE!!~ This is how it look like :

Calender template and interfaces decided !

Let's share something about our consultation.


We had our consultation with senior Joyce . She like this one but maybe we can change the color. This is attractive but again not much skills is used and also need to be careful about chosen of music instrument.The music instrument chosen need to be easy to understand while only seen from black and white with no details.

She give comments on this also. Since the above one got its danger if we can't done it well so we can try on this also.

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Since senior like the first one so much and we also thought that it was quite special, I had try the same effect on other music instrument :

It were not as nice as the drum set since these music instrument got not much details for shown in black and white. So, we decided to use the second one as the final concept of our calender.

Final concepts about calender :

1. Natural background.

- To show the harmonious between music instrument and natural.

2. Effects

- Since we have not much experience on using Photoshop. We emphasis on two things. Either adding effects on the music instrument or adding effects in background.

3. Merging

- To follow the instruction of "The images must be original and not copied or cut and paste." We decide to merge fews different images and also adding some effects onto it for the background.

4. Way of arranging.

- We have decide how to arrange our music instrument and also dates and month. We also decided how to present holidays.

To make sure that our calender is consistency and also neatly, I will do the calender templates first and send it to all members later. The making of calender template and how it look like will be upload later.

By WeiTing