Digital Graphics

Emily Monsey

Raster Graphics

Raster graphics are bitmaps which are made up of millions of tiny pixels. These pixels record the colour information of that area of the image.

When resizing the image, this can cause distortion of the pixels. For example, when enlarging the image the image becomes blurred and of a lower quality. This is because bitmap images have a fixed resolution.

Vector Graphics

Vector graphics are made up of vectors (or paths/strokes). Vectors have start and end points which have curves, points and angles between them. The path can become a line, square, curve or triangle shape. Vectors have no loss in definition which means they can be enlarged or minimised without becoming pixelated which makes this a great graphic to use for companies. For example, it can be small to fit on a business card or enlarged for a billboard and not loose definition.

JPEGStands For Joint photographic experts group

Used For Photographs and web formats. For example, photographs on Facebook are saved as a JPEG.

Advantage A JPEG is a small sized format which means it can be used on most technology e.g phones, computers etc. This can be an advantage due to the fact that images can be saved on to any technology.

Disadvantage It looses quality when its been edited multiple times due to the compression and recompression each time its edited. For example, if the image is opened and closed many times the image looses quality and wont be as sharp as it was originally.

TIFFStands For Tagged Image file format

Used For Desktop publishing and popular with graphic designers.

Advantage It allows you to save multiple documents on to a single TIFF file. It also doesn’t loose quality and stays sharp and of a high quality after being compressed as a TIFF file has the option of Lossless compression.

Disadvantage Due to being very high quality this causes the file to be very big and takes up a lot of storage.

PSDStands For Photoshop Document

Used For Image manipulation and used on images for the front cover of magazines.

Advantage It can save multiple layers and page formatting information, it also supports transparency. It doesn’t use compression meaning the image doesn’t loose quality and stays sharp.

Disadvantage As the file is a Photoshop document, the image can only be opened in Photoshop. For example, if a PSD image is sent to somebody who doesn’t have Photoshop they will be unable to view the image.

AIStands For Adobe illustrator art

Used For Used to create logos and graphics to represent companies

Advantage It can be scaled big and small as vectors have no loss in definition. Also unlike some other file types when the image is magnified it doesn’t become blurry or pixelated.

Disadvantage It is a limited software meaning that you would have to have adobe illustrator to open any image from it. So if the image is sent to anyone who doesn’t have adobe illustrator they would be unable to open the image.

3DSStands For 3D Studio

Used For 3D Studio is used for modelling animation and rendering. It is also used to create 3D characters, environments, animations and gaming.

Advantage 3D Studio is a flexible programme which allows you to save files on different software programmes and is a powerful software to have.

Disadvantage 3D Studio takes up a lot of room as it’s a huge file and it can be found really difficult to use and takes a lot of practise to master the programme.

Rotoscope

Shape task

Logo Creation

T-shirt Design

Favourite designs

Original mind map

Final ideas mind map

Final idea- use a quote to show an iconic image:

“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”“Being normal is boring!”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I get to be a woman in it”

“Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left”

“We should all start to live before we get to old”

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do”

ProposalDimensions

2400 by 3200 pixels

Content

The t-shirt I am going to design is going to have an image of Marilyn Monroe created out of her most famous quotes. I am going to ensure that the image I use is iconic so it can easily be recognised as Marilyn. The quotes are going to be done in a girly/feminine font to match her character and are going to out line her face and shade in her key features. I will use my chosen image of her and then write the quotes in different layers on Photoshop, I will then have to warp each layer of writing to shape her face.

Export Format

PNG

Advantages; Compatible with red bubble, can save transparency & lowered opacity.

Disadvantages; larger file size than similar formats such as JPEG.

Proposal

Deadline

1st October

Monday Tuesday Wednesday

MONDAY-Planning my t-shirt making sure it’s ready for next day

TUESDAY-Starting to design my idea on Photoshop, get enough done so I can finish it for Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY-To finish off my final idea for my t-shirt

Schedule

Audience

The target audience for my product is going to be mainly aimed at females as it is going to include lots of quotes, some including quotes that girls would understand more, but could be classed as unisex. The age range will probably start from 16+ as there isn't any thing that would classify it to a particular age but people of a younger age may not know who Marilyn Monroe is and also might not access the site redbubble.

Digital Flat plan

“Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius, And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”

Marilyn Monroe’s face will be made up of her own quotes.

I will use several different fonts to add contrast and to help shape her facial features.

I will use this iconic image so that it will be easily recognised as Marilyn Monroe.

Peer EvaluationWhat are the strengths of the final image?• They both have a lot of detail within the images and used different

skills in their final image. It has had a lot of thought put into them and really good final design. I like the look of both the designs and they are both excellent. I like how the quotes have been warped around the face of Marilyn Monroe picture as it is something different and has worked really well.

What could be developed if the image was repeated? Try to use different skills, e.g. rotoscoping on the Marilyn Monroe design to present the image in a different way but overall both really good designs.

Peer Evaluation

What are the strengths of the final image?• The Marilyn Monroe image is an excellent piece of work, as the quotes fit perfectly to the

structure of the facial features, I like how the quotes are all her own. This has worked really well and used a great skill to do.

• I like the other image with the Disney quotes as Disney is a personal favourite and can go to a wider target audience as it has different characters and quotes and a lot of fonts are used.

What could be developed if the image was repeated? Try not to let the words over lap as it makes it difficult to read Use colour or different skills to make it more brightly interestingThe other image, take more time with the characters as they are simple

Peer Evaluation

What are the strengths of the final image?Marilyn monroe• I really like this image and how the face is made out of quotes. Its really got the actual shape of her face and you can tell

who it is which I think is really good. The font for the quotes works really well.

What could be developed if the image was repeated?

• I really like the image how it is so I wouldn’t change anything

T-shirt evaluation

Does your final product reflect your original intentions?

All my planning has included Marilyn Monroe as I knew I wanted to use her face on my design as I wanted to use a celebrity and felt that her photos were the most iconic and could easily be recognised. Also from doing research on redbubble.com I had seen that many of the designs included celebrities, this showed interest in this area so I thought it may be a good idea to include a celebrity in my design. I also knew from the research that people had used lots of different skills and tools to create their design and my favourite way of creating someone's face was how people had used words to create their face shape and features. My digital flat plan didn’t reflect my design exactly as I didn’t have the time to create what I wanted my final design to look like, therefore I simply used an image of Marilyn Monroe from the internet and put one of her quotes of the top of the image. I used the same image for the digital flat plan as I did for my final design and also used that quote along with many others I had found.

“Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius, And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”

Digital Flat planFinal design

Is your product suitable for your audience? My target audience was people of 16 years and upwards, mainly

based at females but would be classed as unisex. I think that my product is definitely suitable for the chosen audience as I stuck to my initial idea and made sure that It fit in with the target audience I had selected. I had originally said in my proposal that the design was going to be unisex but as I started to create my design I realised that many of the quotes that I was going to be using were aimed at females and that they were the target audience of her quotes. Therefore the design may be classed as more of a female based product. I had also said in my proposal that I wanted my design to be for 16 year olds and upwards as I felt that from this age you understand who Marilyn Monroe is and also are more likely to access the site at this age. I feel that I have stuck to this age range as I didn’t include any quotes that a person of this age wouldn’t understand and made sure I used a suitable image.

Audience

The target audience for my product is going to be mainly aimed at females as it is going to include lots of quotes, some including quotes that girls would understand more, but could be classed as unisex. The age range will probably start from 16+ as there isn't any thing that would classify it to a particular age but people of a younger age may not know who Marilyn Monroe is and also might not access the site redbubble.

What do you like/dislike about the techniques you have used?

I really like the idea of shaping the text to fit her face and to show her facial features, I had to rasterize each part of the text and then warp them to shape the face. I knew this would take a lot of time but felt that it would pay off and would end up looking very professional. However this technique proved to be very difficult as I had to shape each individual bit of text to shape her face. This ended up being hard to curve the text whilst still understanding what it actually says, resulting in some of the text on my final design being extremely hard to read. This was very hard to shape the smaller features such as her eyes rather than the easier parts like her actual face shape.

This area is easier to read as it was just the curve of her face so I was able to fit a full sentence in.

Can’t really read writing around the eyes as I had to layer the text to make the eyes stand out.

What do you like/dislike about how your final product looks?

I was quite happy with how my design turned out in the end but still felt that it was quite uneven around the edges of the face and some of the smaller features. This was due to the fact that I had to warp each piece of text which left some parts of the text not as rounded as I would of liked. Some of the text also became very hard to read due to the warping of the quotes this occurred especially on the eyes and lips as they were smaller areas and I needed to show detail in them, therefore I needed to squash quite a lot of text in to one small area. Apart from some of the faults I have mentioned overall I was happy with how It looked as you can tell exactly who it is and some of the quotes can be read easily. I would of liked to maybe of changed the colours of the texts to make it stand out more and look different from some of the designs I had found on red bubble.

Slight fault here as the text couldn’t be warped in to more of a rounded shape.

Really clustered around the eyes as I needed them to be defined

Why did you include the content you used?

I used the image of Marilyn Monroe as I found that it was very iconic and as I wanted to create her face out of text I felt that I needed to use an image that many people would recognise. I decided that all the fonts that I would use should be girly and feminine to represent her character, I also thought that using these fonts matched the quotes very well. I varied the size of the fonts to show the facial features better and to highlight the key features of her face, I thought the difference in the fonts and the size of the text also contrasted well and helped to develop her face. I kept the text black as I had originally thought it may look too busy and cramped if I used bright colour as well however I now think that maybe adding some colour in certain areas of her face may have worked effectively.

“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left”

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do”

These types of images that I found on red bubble inspired the design I created as I found them very interesting and different from a lot of other designs I had seen.

I felt that all of these fonts represented Marilyn Monroe’s feminine character very well. Instead of doing quite a harsh bold font I felt that these would match the quotes also.

Final idea- use a quote to show an iconic image:

“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”“Being normal is boring!”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world, as long as I get to be a woman in it”

“Imperfection is beauty, Madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left”

“We should all start to live before we get to old”

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do”

What style have you employed in your products?

My influences for the design were mainly from looking at other peoples designs on red bubble as I found a lot of them very interesting and unique. I have not really seen many designs like this before and felt that it was a really good and skilled way of changing a celebrities photo in to something really different. The visual style of my work is text based, I created the whole image out of her different quotes and warped them to shape her face and her features. I chose not to use rotoscoping or any other tool as I felt that this particular design had to be different and I had already seen lots of designs that had used rotoscoping. I also think that this design works best with text rather than any other tool as I think it may have lost some of it’s individuality. This product does exist as I had got the idea from other peoples existing products but I thought that I would change mine a little by using a different style of text. I used a text that I felt reflected her personality as I used a really feminine font and made sure that it wasn’t really bold or large font. The font used in the other designs I saw were all the same and were really bold and harsh, I felt that I should do mine differently and less harsh on her face. I chose to do a text based product as I think it is very interesting and a lot more detailed than just an image, I think It also works effectively and enables you to show character through the font and writing.

I really wanted to create a design similar to these after doing research on red bubble. I found these designs really interesting as it was only text that created the face. I felt that these ones were more defined than mine as they chose to use larger font and a more fuller font, I decided to make mine with a much smaller font to make a more feminine look to her face and not so harsh.

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-production and planning

The research before planning was really useful to me as it helped me to generate some new and unique ideas, I felt that it allowed me to use some of the different aspects of other peoples work and make it my own. The research also gave me a chance to see what designs were popular so I could do maybe a similar design or for example; if it was a line from a programme I could of chosen to do another memorable quote from that same programme. The weaknesses from the research would be that after seeing other peoples work it showed a lot of designs that had already been done. The planning helped to develop my idea and also to improve on it and make it better and more creative. I felt that the mind maps were a good idea as it allowed you to branch out from one idea to several other ideas. For example; I originally knew that I wanted to use a celebrity in my design and the mind maps and planning helped me to generate more ideas and then the research helped me choose how I was going to include text.

At first I created a mind map of all the possible idea that I had thought of and that I could maybe include somewhere in my final design...

…I then created my second mind map all based on my final idea after doing some research on red bubble.

Analyse each of your final print products commenting on the strengths, weaknesses and aspects you would

do differently if you were to repeat the project+ I like the end result of this product as I was worried that the text wouldn’t create a clear enough image so you wouldn’t be able to tell who it is but after seeing the peer evaluations I have found that people understood exactly who it is.- However if I were to repeat this design I would definitely add some colour in to the product as I feel it is maybe a little plain, some colour in certain areas would be very effective and also help if you wanted to buy a black T-shirt because as it is now you can’t buy the design in dark colours. I also feel that the text overlapping in certain areas definitely affects the quality of the deisgn and I would defiately correct this if I were to re- do this design.

+ I like the final look of this phone case design as I really like all of the text being mashed up together and quite cramped as the phone case is such a small area to cover. I also think I strength of the product is that it will appeal to quite a large target audience as people that are even young adults still love Disney and are happy to buy Disney related things.

- On the other hand I think that I could of included maybe more detail on the silhouettes of the different Disney characters to make them more recognisable as some people make struggle.

+ I feel that the strength for this product would be the font I chose and also the image clipping behind some of the words. I also think that the font relates quite well to the lyrics and also to the band as I tried to use a similar font to what ‘imagine dragons’ use in their posters and other designs. The clipping mask of the images also worked quite well as I tried to connect the word to the image. - The weakness of this design would be that people who don’t know the band wouldn’t know what these words man or where I have got them from. I also think that the cross on the word ‘saints’ maybe stands out too much and I could of put a different effect on it to make it less bold around the outline as I meant it to be as the letter ‘T’.

Peer Feedback The overall feedback I received from people was mainly

positive, I was informed that my design was “an excellent piece of work, as the quotes fit perfectly to the structure of the facial features, I like how the quotes are all her own”. Some of the criticism of my design was that I should “Try not to let the words over lap as it makes it difficult to read”.

I don’t disagree with the feedback as I definitely agree

with the criticism that I had as it can be very difficult to read some of the text. It is found especially difficult in some of the smaller areas eg. Lips, eyes. I also agree that it did turn out quite well and a lot better than I had first expected, mainly because of the key features being highlighted which unfortunately resulted in the text being cramped.