Work Assigned: In the following Imaging class, we were to continue working on our coffee table books
Process: In this class I had started iterating on the books color palettes and tones. I had made 4 iterations for the book’s theme, and about 26 different small sketched layout iterations. I was looking at the following themes: highly rendered and sophisticated, Minimalistic Illustrative Graphic Ui, A Simplistic picture book layout, B&W Minimal and B&W with objects rendered using a sort of cyberpunk tone. After some discussion my faculty told me to go ahead with my idea on the black and white cyberpunk tone theme and I used the camera raw filter and edited the brightness, contrast and exposure levels in Photoshop for my first object to try out this effect. It took me sometime and a lot of learning to do so, but I managed to do it by the end of an hour or so, I did share the output with my faculty but he told me that a few edit changes were required to make it look more realistic than flat. I then wracked my head around trying to retrace each step to give the correct effect but I had failed majorly while doing so and I also took a lot of time in the process.
Reflections: While doing the following task I had overestimated my abilities in trying to create something different. I had also overestimated the amount of time I had left to complete the entire task. I even thought out loud to myself that is this time consuming procedure really worth the effort, should I spend time editing my content before I have even done housekeeping on my file? After calculating the amount of time spent, I realized that if I have to do this particular process repeatedly for as many as say almost 10-12 objects more, I would lose out on a lot of time in putting together my layouts and my research work. I therefore decided to abandon this idea.
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