Study Task 4: Colour Experiments

Contrast of Saturation

For contrast of saturation, I did these experiments under a daylight lamp, using a range of different materials. For the first image I used green card, which was then carried on throughout the rest of the images here. I then placed the light green cloth on top of it, doing this decreased the saturation of it even more. I then placed a darker green as well as a paper stamp, the card saturation seemed to stay the same while the saturation of the stamp decreased dramatically, while the darker green became almost black in the photograph. Although in person it was rather darker, more saturated.

 Contrast of Hue

With hue, I wanted to experiment with the primaries for the highest contrast difference, so blue, yellow, green and red. Firstly I placed the yellow and the red, the yellow was contrasted a lot with the blue while the red and yellow didn't contrast so much because they were closer on the colour wheel.  Where as the biggest difference is between the yellow and blue they contrast a lot more, and due to been complimentaries. The green in similar aspect to the red and yellow. 

Light differences

I wanted to experiment with different types of light and how they affected different white objects. These first ones were tiles, with sunlight coming in through the window, this light gave the tiles a yellowed look rather than the blue that was reflected on them.

Outside on a sheet of paper the light gave the paper the perception of been blue, roughly at 12pm on a cloudy day. 

The light appeared to be really grey the sink when i'd reflected of the porcelain later on, cloud and rain.

I think this really shows how you can't rely on the actual sun light to try and perceive colours because of exactly how much it changes. 

 Neutral Colour Experiment

For one experiment I wanted to see how neutral colours reacted with a lot more saturated hue. The results were the following, I used wood to experiment with so I had a lot of different hues to work with.

The red against the wood accentuates it's self against the wood because of how strong and saturated the hue is compared to the hue of the wood which is desaturated and set back.

Photoshop Workshop [2]

Getting Photoshop to work for us.

Given a big directory full of images to start off with, all the same, just with people moving in the background. This technique removes all of the people, mostly and fills in the gaps from all the other images. Plus Photoshop does all the work too!

In photoshop under file>scripts> load file into stack, you'd be presented with this window, from here you then load in all of the images and as well as that tick 'Create smart object after loading layers'. 

This then compiles them all into one big smart object.

After that go to Layer > Smart Objects > Stack mode > Median. (the other effects do things too but they're all produce really varied effects) - Median creates the image average, removing all the people and the blurring the clouds because they're not the still within throughout all the images.

This takes quite a while to process, considering how many images there is. Here's one I made earlier:

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After

Now after that, I want to create a more realistic sky, firstly I need to rasterize the image to flatten it because it's still currently a smart object. Then with the quick selection tool, brushing quickly around the image skyline  I can delete the old sky and replace it with another sky from a previous image within the collection.

Production & Development: How to

For the logo we could only really find low resolution versions of it, I live traced it and then we added on the subtext to it which turned out to be Helvetica. These were then to be used as the logos a train and a bus one. We used the logo as a place holder first.

I drew a few little cars and trains to be featured as graphics in the posters for everyone else to use.

I didn't really like the car one so that didn't get used, it was kinda scary for a car. 

I tried creating one from shapes that was similar but it didn't really work out.

The train however I thought looked really good, so I developed it by drawing in little windows and a streak across just like the first trains have on their livery.

I then turned the carriage train into a pattern for everyone else to use, you then had to place the end train car onto the end of it so you'd have a full train carriage set.

I experimented with typography for the posters, I really like the contrast between the dirty typeface and the rounded one. They worked really well together as a couple.

Because this was for the car one, where our problem we were conveying was that it's hard to find a parking space in the city, I wanted to use the no-parking sign and use it to get the message across faster. I drew this out from an existing parking sign.

This is how that then went together with the typography, I moved the ark? across and placed in the P. I really like the humor in it as a rhetorical question. That the viewer would then answer in their head 'I probably should have got the bus' been the idea behind it. Or got a First bus. 

Will created this car and tire mark image, I really liked it but I didn't think the pound symbol was close enough to a pound symbol so I moved the anchor points to changed the handles to make it closer resemble a pound symbol. As well as that draw out the car to be in the same stylisation as the train carriages.

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I attempted to do the typography on it as well, trying different things but I couldn't get anywhere with that.

For Suzie's posters I drew out the cars she was wanting to use in the same style and created grouped stacks for her to use.

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For Grace's parking ticket I helped her create the dotted line around the edge, I did this by creating two squares diagonal to each other, doing the same as I did with the train carriage I created it into a pattern that she could then draw with the pen tool.

I worked out the length of what each square should be (5mm) for the parking ticket and sized down the squares so that they would all fit together when they came to fit on the final thing, below been that, It took awhile to do because they would overlap and create a large gap on the corners. In the end though I was really happy it worked out.