Advertising

Hi everyone, today I would like to talk about the advertising. I think advertising is very important for who want to be a good multimedia of designer so this entry could be very useful for us!!!

Advertisers have a mission to search for new ways to grab the interest and appetites of customers. Frequently they use words to inspire interest, but some often cases they use eye-fooling, mind-bending images-optical illusion- to make viewers impress in their mind shortly to force them to look again. The second look is the key to a successful piece of communication, and images that obtain that reaction are an very important trick of the advertising trade

New techniques for visual seduction:
1)Figure and ground
The human eyes deliver a continuous stream of data that passes unfiltered to the brain. The visual centres of our brains have to decide which piece of information establish the figure and which the background. The obvious chaos of the visual raw data is put into meaning order by this process. "What should be perceived as the subject, and what as the formless ground" are the first and most important question but the answer does not usually clear, because in many cases are not right or wrong. Sometimes different explanations will simply lead to different solutions
Reference: Stoklossa, U., 2005, 2007, "Advertising New Techniques for Visual Seduction"

Rain in Flash

This is simple flash which I read on How to cheat on Flash book. I am trying to practice on Flash to preapre to do CV assignment. There are some ways to make rain, because rain falls in several ways depending on wind conditions. You can control how your rain acts by changing the angle which it falls. These below pictures would show you how to do rain. Hope you enjoy!!!

Reference: Georgenes, C., 2007, "How to cheat in Adope Flash CS3", first edition

Poster

Well, this is a poster that I worked for 2nd DIM2 assignment. My idea comes from sniper because I am a fan of computer game. Moreover, I used black and yellow to impress viewers that this tiger was hunted. In addition, I used big and strong fonts to bring strong messages for viewers and I used blood brush to add into "hunting, poaching and illegal trade" words to make viewer think these actions are crime.

In order to do this poster, I used both Photoshop and Illustrator program. I used radial blur (zoom) in photoshop and added fonts in Illustrator

I hope you would enjoy with my poster. Feel free to comment

Fun with Flash

Hi everyone

This week I have a chance to study about the Flash so I am so interested in lecture of my lecturer so this entry I would like to show my first work on Flash. My work based on the book which I found on the library named "How to cheat in Adobe Flash CS3"

My work is so simple, I just use distord tool to make the wing of butterfly moves. The distort tool is perfect to change the perpecsive of shapes. It helps me saving the time to redraw each new angle of the wing by hand. However, I have some problems about my work, my butterfly had three parts: body and two wings. They were quite movie-clip symbols and I made the wing move in the library so in the main layer was just have one frame. When I opened swf file, this file runs normally and I exported directly to avi, mov,.... but the wing of butterfly of these files did not work.

To solve this problem, I downloaded the AnvSoft Flash to Video Converter on Internet to convert swf file to avi file. I hope you can help me to find the reason why I can not export directly!!! T_T Thank for your reading

Mystery Light with Photoshop ^__^

I am so excited with this picture which I learned on Tutorial on Internet. Now let me show you all steps to do this (very easy).

Step 1: File-Open-New (size picture belong to you). Then make background black.

Step 2: Filter-Render-Lens Flare (with Lens type 50-300mm zoom, brightness 100%).

Step 3: Do step2 4 times and Arrange as this picture below

Step 4: Filter-Pixelate-Mezzotint and choose medium strokes type

Step 5: Discard color by Ctrl-shift + U or Image-Adjustments-Disaturate

Step 6: Filter-Radial Blur with Blur method is spin, amount is 100 and quality is best

Step 7: Add color by ctrl + U or Image-Adjustment-Hue/Saturation. Color belong to you

Step 8: Filter-Twirl with angle 50

Step 9: Duplicate background layer. Filter-Twirl with angle -100

Reference: http://thegioiweb.vn/Story/vn/photoshop/huongdanphotoshop/2007/12/2009.html

I hope my entry is useful for you and hope to receive your comment

Designing Simple Logo by Photoshop

Hi, everyone!!!
Today, I would like to talk about designing logo in the Photoshop. I am an amateur so that I design this logo which is very simple, I just use gradient tool and brushes tool to make this. Now, let me show you my work

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/entry5copy.jpg

Next, I would like to show you steps how I do this.

Step 1: Open new page with 600x300 pixels, black background

Step 2: Choose type tool and type (should choose big font, I chose Showcard Gothic font with International and Freestyle Script font with club)

Step 3: With the International layer, choose raterize layer

Step 4: Select selected field to International word(by ctrl + click to this layer) and use gradient tool (color are black and white), drag from top to bottom. You will have the picture as below

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/entry5a.jpg

Step 5: Still continue keep selected field, and select ->modify ->contract, choose 1px

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/entry5b.jpg

Step 6: Add new layer, paint it black. With this selected field, select ->modify ->contract, choose 2px

Step 7: Add new layer again, use gradient tool (color are white and orange). Then, drag from top to bottom

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/entry5c.jpg

Step 8: Until now, the picture is finished soon. We need a little bit about decoration, I just added two line and some soft brush. We have last result. Hope u enjoy it and remember comment for me

Car

Original picture

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/lexus800-600.jpg

Illustrator

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/babydragon224/car.jpg

This is my first work on Illustrator. In the first week to start with Illustrator, this is a nightmare for me because I have not worked on Illustrator before. I took 2 days to finish this work. My car took 7 layers and the car picture size is so small therefore when I zoomed in to draw, the picture appeared block effects, this is most difficult for me so I lost some details of real car such as door holder and car light. When I finished this work, I improved skill of Illustrator and I hoped I would receive your comments