Michael wells 05/03/2013

Evaluation I made my bag using the program adobe Photoshop I used this as it was a good program for editing pictures that I planned to use in my bag, as I found that it was the easiest designing program that there was available to use.

The way that I made my front cover was that I opened the picture that I wanted to use and I selected the picture a dragged it into a new page that way there would be two layers that I could use. I then used the pencil tool then I made the image more transparent I did this by

clicking on the layer then the opacity bar above the layer selection, I then clicked on the background layer which I would draw on.

Then I drew around the shapes in the image that way it would transfer it to the background page after I had drawn the main pieces of the image I used the paint tool to colour the image in and I did this by using the

colour select, I would then click somewhere on the image and the colour used in the place I had clicked would be selected so I could colour the image in using an accurate colour so it would look closely similar to the original image. I did this so that the bag and the product and HMV looked professional and caught the eye of customers and other people.

I have learnt many new skills from these lessons as before I didn’t know how to use Photoshop at all, which really help when it came to making my bag as it meant I had a

wide variety of tools to use also it means that I can use those skills on other projects other than just my bag.

The skills that I have learnt, I have used in my bag that includes rota scope which I used one the front cover and a little bit on the back, on the front I found it quite a bit harder than the back as there were so many things to draw on the front like people’s heads and lots of different colours, which made it stand out to make people’s heads turn and it helped made the colours more vibrant.

I am quite pleased with my bag as it is an ok design and the way that it is put together is good as it is rather sturdy but the design is not the best as the back of the bag is quite simple and not as well made as the front of the bag this is because I changed the design that I was doing half way through my project as I thought that the original design was as eye catching and interesting as the design I have now.

If I was to do this again I think I would spend a little bit more time on the back and sides of the bag and also I would add a bottom design

Michael wells 05/03/2013

that way it has more of a chance of catching peoples eye and it could have been more popular and got more money, whereas this time I didn’t have any design on the bottom of the bag which made it look slightly less professional.

Also if I was to do this again I might use a few more of the techniques that I had learnt on the sides of the bag, to make it look professional and made it look better overall.

This is the side of my bag that I decided to use, I had also made another side of my bag but I decided not to use it because I didn’t think it really went with the rest of the bag and I thought it didn’t look good enough.

In my other bag side I used the gradient tool; I used this because it creates a cool effect in the back ground. This is done by selecting to different colours using the colour select then when you have selected your two colours you click on the gradient tool then you drag across the screen in the direction that you want and it creates a transition of the two colours across the screen.

I would also have a better design to make it look more professional and then more people might get the bag.

The idea of this project was to make a professional looking bag for HMV; I feel like I have done this and fulfil the aims of the unit 7 tasks.

The way that I made my bag was that I drew on a bag specification sheet that had the dimensions of the bag on it so I knew how bug the bag had to be, I have made quite a few changes to the bag from the design as I thought that the original bag front was good enough to use for my bag so I recreated an album cover from the Beatles released in 1967.

After I had done this I went on to adobe Photoshop and started to create the bag using the dimensions from the specifications sheet. I clicked new custom and added in the dimensions like width and height of the bag I then clicked ok and it created a canvas of the correct size I then add in the photo that I wanted to rota scope.

Michael wells 05/03/2013

The range of tools I used was quite vast I used pretty much all of these tools I used the history tool, rubber, pencil tool, paint tool, fill tool, gradient tool, cropping tool, the lasso and quick selection tool.

I used these tools to create my bag, most of the tools that I used I had learnt how to use in lessons because I didn’t know how to use photo shop before this unit.

Half way through I changed the back design as I felt that it didn’t look good enough or professional enough for the bag compared to the front of the bag.