Festival Decision

So, after 1 week to think which festival to pick as my theme of E-wallpaper between QingMing Festival or Drum Festival, I decided to take Drum Festival as my theme of Festival!

Somehow, I have make some research before that about Drum picture and wallpaper, likely I will go more like Chinese Drum.

With researching source with image at
- Hands Percussion Team Official Site
- Hands PercussionFan Club
- Zingo Drum Official Site

Ritual Of Drum 2002

Poster of Chaos In Unison 2007

Chaos In Unison 2007

Drum Slices 3 (2008)

Poster of Kaleidoscope 2009

HANDS 2 : RhapsoDrums

Below 3 images are from Huayi Festival 2009:

This image from the Zingo Official Site

Performance of Zingo Drum in Singapore River Festival

Blurry Image?

As a beginner of Photographer, there are many image that you captured being blurry. Whether it is because something was moving fast or because of camera/hand shaking, a blurry picture is pretty useless.

So, don't worry! Photoshop will be a good helper to make the blurry image sharp.

There are going to be 2 method to solve this problem.

At first, open the blurry image that you chose to edit.

Image Selected

Duplicate the background layer.

 Duplicate the Layer with Right click the layer and click 'Duplicate Layer...'

**Shortcut: Ctrl + J

Layer is Duplicated

Next go to Filter, then Other and choose High Pass...

High Pass

The higher the value you set it to, the sharper your image will become. However, if you set it really high, the image will become grainy.

10 pixels selected

Now click on the layer and set the blending mode to Hard Light/Linear Light/Vivid Light and adjust the Opacity to makes the image look best.

Select Hard Light/Linear Light/Vivid Light in blending mode and play with the opacity to get the best image

Now, here you got the sharp image compare to the blurry image u captured!

Before and After

''A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun''

Assignment 1 Festival

After brain storming some few days,  I had some idea to my Assignment about Festival.

First idea, I was thinking about QingMing Festival. Is it Special? Ya, I think so!

This is my research about Qingming Festival about picture:

Qing Ming Wallpaper

The view of Tomb

QingMing landscape with the sunset

So, what is QingMing Festival?

The Qingming Festival, Clear Bright Festival, Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Astronomically it is also a solar term. The Qingming festival falls on the first day of the fifth solar term, named Qingming. Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime and tend to the graves of departed ones.

Qingming has been regularly observed as a statutory public holiday in Taiwan and in the Chinese jurisdictions of Hong Kong and Macau. Its observance was reinstated as a public holiday in mainland China in 2008, after having been previously suppressed by the ruling Communist Party in 1949.

Resource from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingming_Festival 

Second, I have another idea on Drum Festival!

Here is some research about Drum Festival: www.malaysiaworlddrums.com

Some background image from World Drum Festival's website

Seoul Drum Festival in Road Show!

This is the poster of Seoul Drum Festival! I like it so much!

It is quite hard to find about the picture, but I like drum since young! I think likely I will go more through about my interests: DRUM

So any suggestion on my 2 Festival? Hope getting advice from the blogger, YOU! 

I will decide later that I will go for which festival!
Thank You

Working with Layerz

This post will show the Working with Layers in Photoshop by Ban. Hope u enjoy and like it!


First, open the a image that u chose to be edited.
** File > Open

To open the image by clicking File > Open

The image is selected by clicking OK

Selected image is opened by another dock

Second, we need to convert the layer to support transparency. This is because the layer of image after u opened is locked that cant be move, delete and support transparency as shown as below:

Layer is locked

So, we need to unlock the layer by using double click on the layer and it will show a box and named the layer (Leaf).

Rename the layer and click OK

The layer now is unlock 

The image can be move and support transparency

Next, drag the image that chose a minute ago into the Leaf image.

Drag the image by clicking the mouse and pull toward inside the Leaf image

Resize the image (Free Transform) and make the image to locate at a place in the image or background.

There are 2 layers after dragging the Layer 1 into Leaf

Resize the image by using Free Transform (Edit > Free Transform)

** Shortcut: Ctrl + T

Repeat the step to the another image that selected by dragging inside into the Leaf or background and resize it.

Now we have 3 Layers together in a file

After that, we gonna to merge or combine the layer 1 and layer 2 so that they can move, delete and etc together.

To merge the layer together: Click the panel menu and choose Merge Down

**Shortcut: Crtl + E

No doubt, we can click the layer with holding Shift to highlight the layers and move it together

We can move the Leaf layer to in front of Layer 1 to do some editing on effects at Leaf.

Drag the Layer 1 down to place below the Leaf layer, so the Leaf layer is overlapping the Layer 1

Other than that, we also can click on the icon of eye to make the layer invisible instead of dragging the layer to overlapping

Next, add some effects with clicking 'Add vector mask'

 'Add vector mask' is selected and a box will appear in Leaf Layer

To show some effects, use Gradient at the vector mask that formed by clicking the Gradient icon in toolbox.

Click Gradient in Painting Tools Section

**Shortcut: G

After selecting Gradient, click and pull at the image of Leaf. It will appear a line that will be form gradient that you want to.

A line is formed while pull a point to the another point

Set the Gradient you want in the Optional Bar

The Gradient is formed in the vector mask

Next, we want to make a Background layer for the whole image to make it looked better to cover the transparency of the image. 

Click 'Create a new layer' icon to make a new layer

With holding Ctrl and clicking the icon of  'Create a new layer', the layer will manually create below the layer u selected.

Rename the Background layer as Background by double clicking name the layer 2.

Rename

Fill the background with White (Any color you like) Color by using Paint Bucket by clicking the Paint Bucket icon in toolbox.

After clicking Paint Bucket (Shortcut: G), click once in the layer on Leaf to fill in the color into the image

Finally, the image with layering is done! 

Enjoy your layering in Photoshop!

Workspace of Photoshop CS5

At start, we need to open Adobe Photoshop surely to do our workspace.

Adobe Photoshop (PS) is running.

 Internal look of Adobe Photoshop.

Next, we need to open a new workspace by clicking File > New.
**We can just use the shortcut by pressing Ctrl + N in keyboard.

 By clicking File > New to open the new workspace.

We require to set the size/pixels of the page we needed.

We also can name the file in the column of Name!

After done the setting, just click on OK.

Usually, we use A4 size doing the project

**Choose International paper in Preset and A4 in Size

Finally, the Workspace is finally done!

Workspace.

The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Workspace has had years to develop into a fine tuned working environment, and with bigger monitors and faster processors, working in Photoshop has only become much more fun. With all the room that larger display options give to us, we can easily organize the panels, documents, and tools in the workspace to provide an efficient photo editing environment.


Basic Introduction

A. Application Bar
Displays menus that contain most of Photoshop’s commands and functions. Special icon-based menus allow you to change the layout of the program. The application bar becomes a single row on wider monitor settings.


B. Title Bar
Displays the name, magnification, and color mode of an open image.You can switch between images by clicking their respective tabs.

C. Optional bar

Displays controls that let you customize the selected tool in the Toolbox.


C. Panels

Small windows that give you access to common commands and resources. You can click the tabs and icons to display and hide panels.

E. Image Window

Displays the images you open in Photoshop.

F. Status Bar

Displays the magnification of the current image and the amount of computer memory that image is using.

G. Toolbox

Displays a variety of icons, each one representing an image-editing tool.You click and drag inside your image
to apply most of the tools. Also displays the current foreground and background colors.


Advance Introduction

Below showed the video that leading us Switching and Saving Workspaces: