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I am going to do my final interface design incorporating the Web 2.0 style design and use. Web 2.0 is not a style but a website that is more interactive than a static page. It is also a term used for online communities online. But baring all this in mind there are some common themes of interface design that are used in Web 2.0 such as rounded corners, gradients, reflections, letterpress, a lot of empty space, user friendly, easy to read big type using a rounded font such as Sans serif, big logo and also it must be simplistic. So baring all this in mind I am going to draw out the wire frame first.

So first I open a image or texture (or anything ) in Photoshop, then using the lasso tool I draw around a area I want to make into the brush. Then I go to Edit> Define Brush Preset, then this appears:So Photoshop lets me name the brush, so I click OK.

For this image I added in a murky effect which is more visible in the top right hand corner. I have also used brushes to add in the defects along the top edge. This is to give the photograph and old and worn out vintage photograph effect.

This photograph I have added in some obvious light leeks which is a something that can happen with film, either the camera is broken and lets in light, or you expose the unprocessed film to the light in some way, or alternatively it could be a defect on a negative which is very old because negatives and photographic prints fade and dull over time, especially around the edges, this happens when they are not looked after properly and over years and years the suns light fades the details.

This image I wanted to do the same effect I have used on one of the previous photographs, to over and under areas of the image giving it a completely different exposures. Also I added in some scratches using the brush tool, and also the pencil tool which makes a really sharp scratch which I feel looks very effective and realistic. After:

Before

So this is my last image, it is landscape, all the others are portrait. As you can see from the original photo on the left, there is a Bedweiser can on the fence. NOT OK!! So I cropped the image to frame just the two people in it and leave out the Bud can. As I have done before on some others, I have bleached out the white on the mans shirt to make it appear it was taken on a less modern camera. In this particularly large image below the film grain (that I have applied to all digital photographs for the project) can be seen clearly, this is very authentic looking I feel. After:

So overall I am VERY happy with the outcome of my work from this project. As a photographer it is normal to use Photoshop to edit images so that they are enhanced to be better, but for this project I found myself adding elements into the image to make it look worse, like stains, scratches, loss of detail, over/under exposure etc. But saying that, it has been more enjoyable than what I usually do because in some cases I was making the photographs look as extreme as possible, but then also in other photographs I was adding subtle differences, so the extremes were fun.

This image is of a dog outside the bunk house. Because the dog it in the centre of the image I am going to make him a feature of the photograph by doing a vignette frame. Here is the image before I edited it

Layer Blending is what I do finally to the image, I have chosen quite a dramatic scratched and old looking texture, then applied a layer blend, as I have done in the posts before this. Below is my before and after photographs

I have used a very abrasive texture for this photograph, also I have made it quite dark. The reasons for the under exposed-ness of it is mentioned above, but I thought I would add to this more by adding in the scratches making it appear like it has been manhandled many times over the 100+ years since it was taken. I am happy with it because it stands out from the rest of my photographs because it is so dramatically different. I even added in at the end the splodge of liquid in the top right hand corner to resemble a spillage of chemicals in the darkroom or coffee.

I have been thinking about what textures I want to incorporate into the design as I feel that the textures must relevant to what my fictitious exhibition is of, so because all my photos were taken at the ranch there are some textures that will work really well such as, wood grain, sand, leather and (old) paper. Before I start any of the design I am going to draw out the wire frame so I can plan where everything will be located.

I am doing a post of all the different ways to change a colour image into black and white because there are so many, and it is important to know which one to use for which image, and why. I am using Photoshop CS6 but I think that all the ways I mention are the same on all the creative suites. Using a simple image I will put a example of the different results at the end of the post for comparison. The results may not appear that different from each other because when viewed on the web the image resolution is 72dpi, but as a photographer I work at 300dpi when editing photographs, so working in much more detail than what can be seen on a computer screen, so what you see on here is not as accurate as my images at 300dpi when printed.

This image of the hanging tree is quite a desolate and eerie photograph already, I want to bring this out more so when I edit it. It is already quite bleak so I feel that I can add in some suitable textures like before, also I want to frame the image in a traditional (of the 1880s) way.

Before

Another thing that I want to change with this image when I edit it is alter the exposure and detail in the bottom of the image (the ground). When photographing landscapes it is often impossible to get the correctly exposed image in the sky as well as on the ground, this is because they sky is always going to be much, much brighter than the ground, so it is necessary to dodge or burn one or the other (sky or ground) depending on where the image is correctly exposed. So for this particular image I need to lighten the ground, without lightening the sky as this is correctly exposed.

This is a digital image and so the quality of the photograph is different now to when a camera would have been used in 1880s, it would have been a lot less quality, as in the focus would have been different to what I can control on a digital camera in 2012, so I decided this image in particular was too sharp focus, so I add in a slight (only very slight) blur by going to Filter> blur> blur. Although the difference is subtle I feel that all of these subtle techniques add towards to overall effect I am trying to create.

Overall I am happy with this photograph. I feel that is says a lot because it is very different in content to all the other photographs, this one is bleak, empty and a little haunting. I think I have brought out the detail in the ground well without altering the picture too much, and I feel that the cut corners adds too it as well.

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