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Having now completed Stage One of this assignment, the next stage is in regards to creating an On-Disc Label for my chosen DVD Film. For information I will reiterate the specification for this stage below:
"Create a DVD on-disc label including a logo. This may be created in Photoshop and/or Illustrator. You will be expected to demonstrate, at minimum, use in Illustrator of the pen tool, type tool, placing images, brushes, clipping masks, guides, layers, transparencies, text wrap. You must submit the Illustrator workspace file."
As mentioned, this on disc label including a logo can be created in Photoshop and/or Illustrator however at this early stage in the proceedings I feel that the majority of work will be undertaken in that of Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor that is produced by the software company "Adobe". By using this piece of software, this will allow me to use a variety of different tools and effects to create a professional piece of work that form the the On Disc label.
For my first introduction to Illustrator, it became apparent that the difference between the previously used Photoshop and Illustrator is that of Photoshop being a bitmap editing program whilst Illustrator is vector graphics editing program. The difference being that the bitmap images are made of of individual pixels which when brought together form an entire image - for example that of a photograph taken by a camera. Each of these pixels can be individually edited, however the draw back to bitmap images are that when you resize a bitmap image to be larger then the quality decreases. However with Vector images these are infact made up not of pixels, but of different objects of information including such examples of points (the location on a X and Y Axis scale), Fill (colour of fill, if applicable), Outline Colour (colour of line, if applicable, Outline Thickness (how thin or thick the outline is, if applicable). Later on in the Blog further detail into that of Illustrator will be discussed however one very beneficial reason to use vectorised graphics is that they can be resized infinitely large amount of times. This is due to not being on a pixel by pixel bases, and the information of the vector shapes mean that the files are very flexible and can be manipulated in many ways.
With a brief introduction to Stage Two of this assignment under way, the next blog posts will discuss the different elements of Illustrator that I will discover and also the beginning of the design phase of the On Disc Label, followed by a documentation of the design and finally an evaluation of the finished On Disc Label when the time comes.
For my first introduction to Illustrator, it became apparent that the difference between the previously used Photoshop and Illustrator is that of Photoshop being a bitmap editing program whilst Illustrator is vector graphics editing program. The difference being that the bitmap images are made of of individual pixels which when brought together form an entire image - for example that of a photograph taken by a camera. Each of these pixels can be individually edited, however the draw back to bitmap images are that when you resize a bitmap image to be larger then the quality decreases. However with Vector images these are infact made up not of pixels, but of different objects of information including such examples of points (the location on a X and Y Axis scale), Fill (colour of fill, if applicable), Outline Colour (colour of line, if applicable, Outline Thickness (how thin or thick the outline is, if applicable). Later on in the Blog further detail into that of Illustrator will be discussed however one very beneficial reason to use vectorised graphics is that they can be resized infinitely large amount of times. This is due to not being on a pixel by pixel bases, and the information of the vector shapes mean that the files are very flexible and can be manipulated in many ways.
With a brief introduction to Stage Two of this assignment under way, the next blog posts will discuss the different elements of Illustrator that I will discover and also the beginning of the design phase of the On Disc Label, followed by a documentation of the design and finally an evaluation of the finished On Disc Label when the time comes.
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