Thursday, 5 November 2015

Digital Design

For the next four weeks I will be doing digital design sessions. In these I will be learning how to uses to Photoshop and Illustrator in my designs.
Maria- Glorious!
In the first session we learn how to create line drawing on Photoshop and how to uses the magic wand tool to select the areas you want to colour. The burn tool or dodge tool can then be used to add dark or light to the designs making them look more three dimensional.
A really great tip when using Photoshop is to add different layers, don't add to the background layer since the options are limited on this layer. By creating layers you can remove section that you dislike easily without ruining other parts of the design.
You can take your designs and scan them into the computer, open them in Photoshop and using the magic wand tool you can select the lines from the drawing. The design that is scanned in needs to have really good lines and any breaks in them will cause the colour to leak out. This line can then be darkened using fill.
Cut this line and then paste it in another layer, change the background to a solid colour commonly white. Create another layer and start adding colour. By changing the colour saturation and hue you can easily view your designs in different colours.
Patterns and fabric can also be scanned and added into the designs and wrapped around the design to make it look three dimensional.
Here is my design for Maria for Act 2 Scene 3 of Glorious! by Peter Quilter. This was made using Photoshop.

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