Technologies & and Techniques30240 minutes ago (3 weeks) were set to work on a task to create a bag for the high street store hmv. To create my HMV bag I used Photoshop to modify the design, and scale it to fit a specific size. Although Google isn’t a program, it was the main source for my photos and logos and has made my bag what it is today.

Tools that I used:

The magic wand tool allowed me to delete a plain background and keep the image/logo in the foreground.

I was then able to drag by cut out logo onto the front of my bag without having the white background.

The Crop tool allowed me to cut away parts of an image to fit onto my bag and create a new image.

This allowed me to cut away the rest of the union jack flag parts leaving the white and red with the name behind. This made my design different so the 2 sides and bottom weren’t the same.

The Eyedropper tool enabled me to use exactly the same colour glowing around text.

The blue glow around the original oasis logo could be replicated to my text using the Eyedropper tool.

Now, “You’re my wonderwall” has the exact same glow colour as the original oasis logo.

Skills that I have learnt

Photoshop was a brand new program to me. I received much help from my colleagues and teachers. All the skills and tools were new and it just required practice to get used to them. Obviously tools like “cut” and the “eraser” were simple and self-explanatory but the layer” styles” and “magic wand” needed practice and patience to master.

The layer styles helped me to change the colour, texture and inner and outer glow of my text. All these required a lot of playing about to get some experience in using the tools. But in time I learnt to use contrasting colours but blend them together and not make them look too over the top so that they fit in with the surrounding pictures and colours.

The “magic wand” tool was the most important tool for making my bag look professional. The tool was only affective when the image I was using a white or plain coloured background. The “magic wand” tool meant that I could remove the background and keep the foreground. This allowed everything to blend together and sit on front or behind one another without having a different colour or misshaped background.

Evaluation

My Bag

I believe the main strength of my bag was the album artwork and Oasis logos. Without the album artwork there wouldn’t be the colours and eye catching pictures, and without the logos the bag wouldn’t be as recognizable and unique. The second strength is that most of the sides are scaled to fit each side of the bag and none of the pictures are blurred or out of focus. The construction side of the design was good with all sides fitting together neatly with no overhanging parts.

On the other hand, the weaknesses of my bag would be that the sides that aren’t scaled to the right size. The hmv logo is cut off and only reads “hm”. The lyrics written on the front cover have the first and last letter cut off. Perhaps, the photos could have been a bit clearer but they were the only images available for the design I wanted and they are clear enough

to symbolise the Oasis band. The only negative side to the construction would be the tabs of the bottom face are stuck over the outside not hidden away on the inside.

Was I pleased?

Overall, I was pleased with the outcome of my bag. It required a lot of learning and concentration, combined with patience and skill, but from the first stages of designing to the cutting and sticking, my final finished product was a success and I am proud of it.

What would I change?

To be honest, I don’t know what I would change. I could choose a different artist with more artistic album artwork and perhaps use some more advanced Photoshop techniques.