Image for US in calender

Based on our theme "2012 Around the World", I've created an image for the country U.S.. Below are the steps and explanation on how the image is done:

these are the images used in the process

First I created a new canvas which is landscape a4 sized and placed the image of the sea onto it.

By using free transform (ctrl+T) I resized the image and place it covering around half of the canvas. Then, I used the magic wand tool to select and remove the unwanted part.

To create a stormy color for the sea, we need to change the levels and color balance. Go to Image>Adjustment>Color Balance/Levels.

These are the settings I've used.

Next, place the image of the cloud on the layer behind the 'sea' layer. By using the healing brush tool I removed the lights on the clouds by selecting the darker areas to give a more gloomy feel.

Next, open the statue of liberty image on a new tab and crop the background out by using the magic wand tool. Place it on a new layer, use free transform to resize and flip it horizontally and place it as shown in the image. Next, go to Image>Adjustment>Match Color and select the cloud layer as the source. 

Duplicate the sea layer by pressing ctrl+J and select the eraser tool and soft brush, erase till the head and arm of the statue is visible.

Duplicate and crop out a bottom of the sea, where there is a wave breaking. Set the blend mode to lighten and remove unwanted parts with the eraser tool. 

Place the wave as shown in the image and use the clone stamp tool to create more waves around the statue.

Next, place the image of the man kayaking and resize it to desired size. By using the eraser tool and soft brush selected, remove the man and unwanted sea water; leaving only the splashes. 

Place the wave layer under the statue layer. Use clone stamp to create more splashes, making it more realistic. Keep on cloning until you are satisfied with the results.

Duplicate the wave layer and place the layer above the statue layer. Again, use clone stamp tool to create more splashes around the face and arm of the statue.

Open the boat image on a new tab and match the colors of the sea by going to Image>Adjustment>Match Color and select the sea layer as source. Roughly cut it out and paste it on the original project after that. Set the blending mode to pin light and erase unwanted sea water using the eraser tool. Then, duplicate the layer and set the blending mode to normal and erase everything else except the deck and the mast.

 For the storm effect, place the lightning image on a new layer. Match the colors to the colors of the sea.

Copy the image into the main project, resize and position it behind the sea layer. Change the blending mode to Lighten and erase the background with eraser tool.

Now for the rain effect, create a new layer (ctrl+shift+N) and go to Filter>Render>Clouds. Make sure the color palette is set to white and black before that. Then, go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise and add 60%Gaussian Monochromatic noise to the clouds. After that, go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and set the values to angle 74 and distance 44.

Change the layer's blend mode to screen and the opacity to 16%. Lastly, I adjusted the color balance as shown in the image: 

After the adjustment, this is how the final image looks like:

This is the image after the calender is added in. 

Calender Interface Final Decision

After discussion, the interface of the calender is changed. Each of our members gave their suggestion and ideas and after adjustments and corrections, the outcome for the new interface is:

The orange highlighted days indicates weekends and public holidays will be highlighted with yellow (fff200) and the holiday will be written under the respective date.

Country and month

the are 12 month on a calendar. therefore, we had decided to do different country based on each month.

name list for the members to in charge on calender 2012:

*Te Chin Yong:

month: January, February, March

country:Malaysia, Cambodia, Arab

*Yau Fen Nie:

month: April, May, June

country:Korea, Australia, Italy

*Tang Yook Meng:

month: July, August, September

country: Japan, China, England

*Pook Khim Wui:

month: October, November, December

country: United State of America, Egypt, France

Our calendar interface by using AI

This is basically how our calendar will look like. The grid of dates will overlay the image.Then , the month will fit in the grid of date with white color 50% transparency by the font, stencil std bold, and the days(18.48pts) as well. The font of dates(15.4pts) would be impact. Other than that, a white color 35% transparency rectangular will placed as the background of the dates so that the days and dates can be seen clearly.

Example :
Public holiday and school holiday will be stated, and the special day as well. And they will differentiate with color background or certain symbol. Other than that, the special day and the meaning of the color background will be stated too.

*Changes of layout might be occur if we have a better idea.

By,

Fennie

Testing for our calender

After our last meeting, we decided to change our theme to 2012.
All of the calender will contain 12 different disaster in the city of the world in year 2012.

Below is the before and after , which we try it on photoshop CS5.

After(KL CITY)

After(KL CITY-Meteor Shower)

After the testing, we are satisfied with the result. We will proceed it and do it well.



BY : TECHINYONG  http://jingrong1010.blogspot.com/

Second meeting

Date: 21-Oct-2010
Time: 3pm-3:45pm
Location: DR0001
Attendance: Khim Wui, Chin Yong, Fen Nie, Yook Meng
Absent: None

In our second meeting, we decided to put our idea of portraying the specialty of each country in each month on halt and try experimenting on other ideas before deciding. Chin Yong did a brief explanation of the functions in Photoshop as the two girls are still unfamiliar with it. Although the theme was on halt, we had decided which month we are responsible for as shown below:


January-March: Pook Khim Wui
April-June: Tang Yook Meng
July-September: Yau Fen Nie
October-December: Te Chin Yong


We had cleared some of our doubts today by inquiring the lecturer and hopefully we can proceed smoothly. As for the theme, it will be decided after we experimented with other ideas and decision will be made based on the results.

Minutes prepared by: Pook Khim Wui

First meeting

Date: 20-Oct-2010
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: BR1020
Attendance: Khim Wui, Chin Yong, Fen Nie, Yook Meng
Absent: None

The purpose of our first meeting is to discuss the theme for our calender. Each member is asked to give a few themes which they feel appropriate and suitable for the calender and discuss about it. After nearly an hour of discussion, we all agreed to the theme of 'countries'. This means that we will produce an image for each of the countries that we had selected for each month. After that, we were also assigned which country we are responsible for. The meeting ended after our task were assigned.


Minutes prepared by: Tang Yook Meng

Intro

Okay so this is our work-in-progress blog for our assignment 2 group. And.. I.. Am the group leader.. Members include me, Pook Khim Wui, Te Chin Yong, Yau Fen Nie and Tang Yook Meng. So we are supposed to post our progress of our assignments here including the idea in each month of the calender created, design, references and sketches.. Minutes of our group meeting shall be recorded in here too.. By the way if the group name doesn't really sounds okay to you all can tell me and we can come up with another name.. Uhh. Seriously I don't know if the lecturer is gonna put more people in our group or not =__= anyway.. For this assignment, just want to wish all of us

GOOD LUCK.