Photo Manipulation: Mannequin

Final of mannequin. 

Original image of the mannequin.

I started off by taking a photograph of a mannequin, then using PhotoShop I added an arm by using an image of a model and clipping round the arm and using the clone tool to blend the join. From this I took a Photograph of some fabric and used the liquify tool to create a sort of dress shape around the mannequins body and blended it together.

For the background I used images of a rock and duplicated it to create a rocky bank style from the water, and same done with a patch of grass to create the background meadow, then inserted a dusk sky and created a sun using the brush tool. Once the background was in place I used the dodge and burn tool to create highlights and shadows then changed each of the layers contrast so they blended with each other. I then created a reflection on the water by duplicating the sky and changing the opacity and adding a gradient then moving it in place to the water (same with rocks.)

Using the colour overlay brush I added make up to the mannequin and the changed the contrast of the layer so that it blended more and gave a more realistic style to it. Then using images of water splashing I added the splash to try create the feeling that the mannequin was coming from the water.

Finally I neatened any last bits off and used a butterfly brush tool to make the image more interesting, I then changed the contrast and brightness of the overall image to give a more dusk lighting and a clearer finish.

College Assignment - Advertising for 3D Student

Product created by 3D Student that was handed to me to advertise.  

The latest assignment before the Christmas break in college was to advertise a product created by a 3D student in a number of different ways. The 3D student I was working with had designed a formal dining cutlery set made from stainless steel and wanted it to represent a diamond theme throughout the product.
Unfortunately due to different lesson times with the other student I only got to have one meeting with him (Did attempt a few emails as well) so I wasn't truly sure on what his aims and target market was but I knew they wanted this Diamond theme and it to be sort of a expensive and luxury feel to it, also I never had the actual product made for me so I couldn't use photography of it in use or different angels so I had to work around the computer generated image.
So I started thinking about the diamond theme and decided I wanted to go for a Jewelry style high end advertisement taking inspiration from the likes of Tiffany & c.o. I started looking at different types of jewelry boxes and eventually picked one that I thought suited best for the advertisement. I then tried different effects with it using photoshop such as changing the colour and stacking it to make multiple boxes using duplicate layers.

One of the original images I
took of the box

Arrangement and colour change of box using Photoshop.

    

Through my design development I wanted my advertisement to start to look formal and to have a sort of shinny texture to the background, I tried a number of methods to try create different effects in my earlier design development. Some changes I made was different placements of the product and props used in the advertisement as well as changing the product title and slogan. I used a continues typeface called Georgia because I had noticed it being used in fashion advertisement and jewelry advertisement I also used a logo created by another Graphic Design student that I was working with into my designs. 

Early Design- This was changed because I thought it wasn't clear on
what the product was.

Early Design- This was getting toward the final but I thought it looked to blank.

For my final design I kept elements from my design process such as the horizontal lines, Jewelry boxes, Product center of advertisement, Reflective surface, Ribbon texture. I just wished that I had more details on the product from the student so I could design a bit more in depth but overall was quite happy with the final.

Final design that can be displayed in a page spread of a magazine.

From my final I took elements and tried out a few other advertisement methods that I thought would be useful for the product. 

Flag flyer advertisement.

Web page banner.

Big Billboard.