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Cutting Edge

In the last post I showed the final basic design idea for the case, in this post I'll go over the different ways I cut out each of the images in the design from their original.

Cutting out Han Solo

 This is the original image the Han in the design was taken from. 

The tool I used to cut just Han out was the Quick Selection Tool

   With this tool selected you click and drag over the object in the image you want to specifically select. This tool works by sampling the pixels around where you are clicking and determining their colour. It will then select all of the adjacent pixels which fall under his colour band, the size of the brush can be altered so you can sample more or less of an area at once. 

Here we can see only some of him has been selected, as well as how the selection area follows clear colour edges. 

Here he is fully selected, but we have the spaces between his arms and his hand selected, the easiest way to get rid of them is to use the Magic Wand Tool.

With the Magic Wand Tool selected go over the area you want to unselect, hold alt and click. The Magic Wand Tool works similar to the Quick Select Tool, but instead of needing to be dragged along for it to realize what you want to select this will instantly select it. I didn't use this to select Han overall as I'd have to click each different coloured area individually which is tedious. You can alter the "tolerance" of the Magic Wand Tool so it will select a wider range of colours from the starting one you click on. If you ant to add a selection to an existing one you need to hold shift, otherwise it starts a new selection.

Cutting out the Planet

To cut out the planet used in the design, I used the Elliptical Marquee Tool.

This allows me to select an area by clicking an dragging, and it creates a rounded selection area. If I hold down shift while doing this it makes a perfect circle. 

This shows the planet with the circle selection made, this was then cut. 

DVD Case Mock ups

Of the 2 sketches I did for the DVD front cover I make mocks ups of them to give a good estimate of what it would look like.

As said in my previous post the first one was very basic.

 

The cutout of Han is the same as in the sketch, I just added a space image behind and the text below. 

If I were to follow through with this simple design, I'd darken Han as it is seems too bright, too much contrast to the dark space background. Also refine the outline removing the white parts, either cutting/recolour them, or feather the outline making it sightly transparent. 

The second sketch design had a bit more going on, below is the quick mock up of that. 

This is the first version:

It is missing the Millennium Falcon, but thought this was worth saving on its own, still trying fro simple. 

Second Version:

Here I added the Millennium Falcon to the bottom of the case.

Third Version:

The only difference between this and No.2 is that it says "Han" inside the first "O", I felt it looked rather barren around there. 

I really like this look, I would go into reasoning, but unsure if I get any marks for artistic insight. In short, his surname is Solo, so I feel like gives the feeling hes alone, going solo, atop a lonely planet.

I tried this with the text behind the planet.

 

This could work, but the planets' outline needs to be smoothed off, also it makes the title in my eyes look wonky, doesn't feel right. 

DVD Case Sketches

For Uni I'm needed to design the cover (front and back+spine) of a DVD case for a Film/Game aswell as the image which goes on the disc. The Film or Game will preferably be one made up by myself, so not one already existing.
I'll also need to create a video and apply effects to it using Adobe After Effects, I have no idea what I'm going to do for this at the moment.
I'd ideally like to figure out what to do for the base of the video first before doing the case designs, as case designs are easy, but making a video which is remotely relevant will be the trickiest part.


My first thought for a film to create a case for is for Han Solo (from Star Wars), due to the recent announcement by Disney that one of the new Star Wars films will be about a young Han Solo.

I did 2 quick sketch ideas and mock ups of both in about 10mins.

The first is a really simple design, not much I can do in Photoshop to it to utilize most of the tools it offers.



As you can see its a basic design with Han as the sole focus of the image, with the title at his feet, and the background will be space.

The second sketch of a case design has a bit more going on, and even at this stage liked more than the previous.



This one has the same cutout of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) but here he isn't the sole focus, he is seemingly standing on a planet, with the title "Solo" being spelled and using him as the "L". The thing in the upper right is meant to be the Millennium Falcon (Han's iconic spaceship from the original Star Wars Trilogy)

Crabageddon

The tools I used were

Patch Tool:

I used this to remove the rocky regions in the background of the image. This was done in one smooth action. I used the Patch Tool as it will remove what I select and then to the best of its’ ability blend the area that is left to fit in with the surroundings.

Just draw around the area using the patch Tool just as you do using the Lasso Tool, and press Delete.

 

Here we can see the rocks have been removed and PS has done its best to create a seamless replacement.

 

 

Content-Aware Move Tool:

This tool is used to move something currently on the image to somewhere else on the image. It will then so as the Patch Tool does and blend the area the selection was with the rest of the image; and where you place the selection will be blended with the new location. This tool is used to relocate sections of an image, such as in this case the jeep on the left side of the image to be closer to the other jeep.

Draw round the object you wish to move using the C-AM Tool, be sure to get anything related to object that will look out of place if left behind, such as the shadow of this jeep to its’ left.

 

Then simply drag the selected area to wherever you want to place it on the image. When you place it the area it was will be blended seamlessly, and the outline of the object you moved will be blended to fit its new surroundings.

 

 

 

 

Here we have the jeep in its new location, shadow as well; it has been placed in a position to make the size comparison look realistic.

 

 

 

 

Below is the finished image next to the original.

I went a bit further and added a crab, because why not.