Experiments

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ProcessTo create a t-shirt design you need to create a template with these measurements which are 85cm for width then 113cm for height and it has to be pixels/inch and then it will look like the image on the right. This is you starting point to designing a t-shirt. The programme used is adobe photoshop. You will also double click on the padlock on the background layer to make it layer 0 so you can change it and add changes to it.

ProcessFor my experiment I wanted to do a band which is different to my final product which is consisting of fictional character. To help me with my designs I looked on google images for logo images of fall out boy and so I looked through the multiple choices till I find on I like.

Then when I found one that I liked that wasn’t to much and was very simple, I clicked on the image to see it better and then I right clicked on the mouse to bring up the options I can do with it and I went to copy so I can paste it into my photoshop document.

ProcessWhen I pasted it into the photoshop document it was very small but first I got rid of all the on the actual image using the magic wand tool which selects the colour you want rid of and so after I did that step I moved onto enlarging it and to do that I pushed the keys “Ctrl” which is control alongside with the letter “T” these allows you to enlarge and rotate and so I didn’t warp my image I held “shift” key so it changes the size equally.

When I enlarged it I also rotated it so it fits in the corner and to make it look like products that can be purchased. But for when I rotated it I held the “shift” key so it rotated equally and didn’t warp. I also changed the white background to black so what I put onto the design it will stand out if it is white.

ProcessI then looked on google for images of the band members, when I found one that I liked I copied and pasted it onto the photoshop. I liked this photo because it wasn’t complicated and it was suitable for the design I wanted to get across.

Once I copied it into the photoshop document I used the magic wand tool to get rid of the white. I then went to the to the filter section and went to the filter gallery section, I looked through multiple filters until I found the stamp filter which looked great and also matched how I wanted the design to look like and so I used this filter.

ProcessI went onto dafont to look for a suitable font to use for a quote that I wanted to include on the design, once I found the font that I wanted to use I clicked on it and changed the size to medium and typed in what I want it to say then copied and pasted it into photoshop and I then used the polygon lasso tool to get rid of the webpage and then used the magic wand tool to get rid of the parts I couldn’t get to. I repeated this step three times.

To get the writing white I double clicked on the layer the text was on then tab appeared with multiple options, once that’s up you go to the colour overlay option and when you’ve gone on there the colours will already be red then you click on the red box and then I changed it to white to match the rest of the colours I have used.

ProcessOnce I finished the design I saved it as a psd file which is the original saving format, to do that you go to the file option and save as, from there you can save it to your hard drive or a usb memory stick, I saved it to my memory stick so I know where it is. Also I named it as experiment because I was experimenting what to do with my t-shirt design.

After I saved it as a psd I then saved it as a jpeg which is just the image format, so I have two copies where one is a image and the other is the actual document where I can still edit it, I also kept the same name as the psd save.

Reflection• What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product?

For my final product I will keep the elements of the t-shirt design the reason because of this is because is that my target audience want me to create t-shirts with different designs and so on. The only that I will be changing for my final product is that I won’t be creating a design for a band such fall out boy or disturbed etc. instead my designs will consist of fictional characters such as comic book heroes like batman, superman, iron man. I will also include comic villains like joker, bane, mysterio and others like game characters. I will also use the rotoscope technique which use the polygon lasso tool and the colour overlay option. I will also use the filter that I have used in my experiment which was the stamp. But I will be use different filters as well to create variety in my designs.