Evaluation

The finished project of my portfolio wasn’t as I intended at the beginning of production, as I thought that to address that I have an interest in photography I could use a template of multiple cameras, but it wasn’t as aesthetically pleasing and professional as I had anticipated. However, I liked the idea of using brushes and I experimented with different brushes, and didn’t want my pages to be too busy from the background, which I found from my first attempt to design my templates. I thought that the original design was too busy making the background too distracting, so I only included two brush strokes in the corner to keep my theme going throughout the portfolio, but this meant that I could use more and be more creative with the brushes on the front page. I also had an idea of placing a border around my images on my photography page, to show that I love all types of photography and not just digital, however making the images look like a polaroid image, made the images smaller and were harder to see as well as making the pages look unprofessional. I similarly found that I included too much related with photography, which made the overall portfolio boring as everything was related to photography and didn’t allow me to show that I have other creative aspects.

I also gained many of my ideas from the app Pinterest by looking at other people’s portfolios and creative CV’s as well as colour schemes and types of typography for certain designs.

In unit 19 I was to create a portfolio that includes and demonstrates my work from college, as well as projects outside of college, in order to present my work in a professional way during interviews for universities and jobs. With this being the aim of unit 19 I think that my overall portfolio, suits the purpose of being a professional way of expressing that I am a creative person and I have presented this through the use of using paint brushes on the pages of my portfolio. My portfolio is also fit for purpose as I have included my best work in the portfolio and have described what entailed and the outcomes I had to achieve in that unit, which shows the person viewing my portfolio in closer detail what I was asked then shows the outcome I achieved, meaning that the university or employer can see what I am capable of and the work I can offer to them.

To make my portfolio more professional I have included a navigation page so that it is easier for people to view, making it more professional and less time consuming, as if the interviewer wanted to view a specific thing they wouldn’t have to look through the whole portfolio, they can look at the contents page and quickly find the page they wish to look, making it more efficient and professional during the interview. The composition of my pages are all balanced out by equal amount of text and images, creating optical balance, and to keep consistency throughout my whole portfolio, I kept the title in the same place, the top left hand corner, as this is the way we view pages, left to right, so it’s the first bit of information they see, making them aware of what page they’re on without viewing the contents.

When selecting the colours to use within my portfolio I took what colours meant in different cultures and religions into order, for example I used the colour purple as it means royalty in christianity  and in the western culture and purification in judaism. It also signifys wealth in far and middle eastern culture. I have took these aspects into consideration so that when people are looking through my portfolio, I have used colours in order to prevent offending or upsetting someone of a certain religion or culture. Besides using the colour purple I have used the colour blue as in in buddhism the colour blue means kindness and in islam it implies protection.

The typography I have used are a contrast of a sans serif bold font then a serif italic font, such as Arial Narrow and Bell MT Italic. I used these fonts to make it clear which part of text was more important and it also made the pages look more proffesional as it wasn’t just one form of font, and really made a creatie contrast on the pages.

Throughout the production of unit 19 I used the software of photoshop to be able to be as creative as I wanted and use aspects and tools such as brushes, as well as a graphics tablet to create my sketches for a certain page.Whilst using photoshop to crate documents, I had to use different dpi for the pages as i used a 300 dpi for the printed pages of my portfolio, and 72 dpi in order to place my pages on the internet and for them to load and be clear and good quality. I have also learnt how to use the software dreamweaver to convert all my pages from prints to digital pages, in order for people to view my portfolio online if they want to view it in more detail or just simply view it again for more detail.

During production I found that I managed my time well as I had all my work completed by the deadlines, as I will be able to take it into university interviews. I found that having a production schedule has helped me to complete tasks individually and keep on top of the workflow easily and stick to mulitple deadlines I set myself in order to have the project completed by the overall deadline.

Even though I have worked individually throughout the production for unit 19, I have used peer feedback and advice to help aid the production as well as the desgin of my portfolio and this also gave me an inside into what people thought of my portfolio.

 

 

Biblography

Web Pages 

Pixel:

www.microscope-microscope.org/imaging/image-resolution.htm

www.Homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/value.htm

www.forums.adobe.com/thread/675181?start=0tstart=0

Raster Image:

www.techterms.com/definition/rastergraphic

www.forums.adobe.com/thread/675181?start=0tstart=0

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/lossless-and-lossy-compression

http://fileinfo.com/filetypes/raster_image

http://superuser.com/questions/386037/using-bmp-format-for-lossless-high-quality

Vector Image:

http://techterms.com/definition/vectorgraphic

https://modassicmarketing.com/understanding-image-file-types/

http://absolutegraphix.co.uk/trade_vectors.asp?strID=Guest

Bit Depth:

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/bit-depth.htm

https://07268grum.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/bit-depth-sampling-bits-per-pixel-monochrome-high-true-colour/

Colour space:

http://www.arcsoft.com/topics/photostudio-darkroom/what-is-color-space.html

https://07268grum.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/colour-space-greyscale-rgb-yuv-lumiance-chrominance-hsv-hue-saturation-value/

Image Capture:

http://royalwise.com/rw/what-is-image-capture/

http://badboysmitty.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/image-capture-image-output-and-storage.html

Optimising:

https://07268grum.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/optimising-target-destination-bit-depth-resolution-dimensions-intended-image-output/

Books

Johnson, S. (2010) Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5. First Edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Ltd.

Baron, L. (2004) Designing a Digital Portfolio. Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing.

Production Blog On Portfolio

Optimising

In order to maintain the quality of file sizes or an image, and keeping a balance on the quality, depending on the target destination. For example, the target destination is the where you wish to place your graphics, and so that you can apply the graphics to where you desire, you have to save the graphic to a certain type of file format. For instance, if you wish to have an image on your website, you will have to save the image to a 72dpi, and for the image to at the same quality in a leaflet, you have to change the dpi to a 300 resolution.

With bit depth you can change the amount, which will also change the size of the file it is saved in. If you were to optimise the bit depth it depends on where you want to store it, as if you were to include it on the internet, you would have to sacrifice either the quality of image or the speed of loading time. If you were to increase the bit depth then the image quality will be at a good standard but it would take a while for the internet to load the image on the website and vice versa.

Intend image output is how you create a graphic to be of a good quality and size, as well as being efficient. This is important as the file needs to be easily accessed, as it is the data that includes the information of the graphic output. Another aspect that changes the quality of image for your target destination is image dimensions, as the dimensions of the length and width of images can control the size of the image. Even though you are changing the size of the image, the amount of pixels remains the same making the size of the pixels larger too. This means that if the image is stretched and made larger than should be, this is when the image would appear pixelated. So for the best outcome a vector image would be best to include on your website as it will never pixelate due to it being made of shapes.

Image Capture

There are many different ways to capturing images, for example digital cameras. There are a few types of digital cameras, such as bridge, DSLR and compact, but they all provide a high quality image, that will come with a high resolution. Digital cameras also can vary the amount of storage you have, with SD cards, but can also hold more memory than a mobile phone. However, if an image has been taken by a camera that is disposable, they can be scanned for possible reason, such as to view on your computer screen.  The file size is the amount of data the file can hold, and it can hold bits, pixels and bytes, for example a file size that could save 8 BPP could save JPEGs.

Asset management is if any files or images etc. has importance to you, then “asset management monitors and maintains” these important files. This could be useful for companies that have vital information that they need to keep, so will use asset management to keep the files safe.

Colour space

When it comes to an image that is greyscale, it will only include the colours, grey, black and white, with the intensity of the black being the weakest and the colour white being the strongest. The difference between a binary image and a greyscale image is that there is no colour grey in a monochrome image. Even though greyscale includes one more colour, it is still used for copiers and printers.

When the colours red, blue and green are mixed they create a range of hues that “will be able to make any colour” (07268grum.wordpress.com.) Being a colour model, the RGB will be used on digital screens so that when a certain colour is required, it will be easy to deliver to the viewer.

The model that defines colour space is YUV with chrominance (UV), which is the colour component of the model, whereas the (Y) luminance determines the brightness. The purpose of YUV is to “encode” graphics such as images and videos of colour, in order to cover up errors, so that the user isn't aware. This would be used for TV’s so that the viewers wouldn't be able to pick up on any accidental errors, making this more beneficial to use for the broadcasting company as the problems won’t be visible to the viewers.

Originating from the RGB colour space, HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value) and all of them apply different inputs, for example, value is the brightness of the colour. The saturation determines the pureness or sharpness of the colour whereas, hue determines the shade of a colour, and these factors are able to be changed as they are mostly used in editing software, making it easier for the user to select the specific colour they desire.

Bit Depth

Bit Depth is the amount of bits that is used to determine the colour, or “colour component” (grum.wordpress.com) of a single pixel, which is otherwise known as BPP (Bits Per Pixel) when discussed as a pixel, but when referred to a certain colour component “it is known as Bits Per Sample (BPS).” When it comes to bit monochrome, black and white are the only colours that characterize a single pixel, and when an image is in monochrome it is other known as a Binary Image, due to the two colours. Monochrome images are most likely used for printers and fax machines etc. as the pixels in most digital screens always include colour, also they are usually stored in a bitmap format as a raster image, which means that the files are rather small.
High colour is where the image information allows pixels to include two bytes. There are different amounts of bits when it comes to high colour, for example 15 and 16 bit high colour, and the difference is 16 bit high colour has the colour green as their main colour due to the operators eye being more sensitive to the colour green. On the other hand 15 bit high colour uses blue, green and red, with one bit in another channel. 
There are overall “256 different intensity values for each primary colour” (cambridgeincolour.com), which works out to 8 bits per channel, which is usually used in digital cameras. The name for having 256 colours available in 8 BPP (Bits Per Pixel) is VGA, and is mostly used for JPEGs and TIFFs. When there are all of the three RGB colours and they all add up to 256, and due to having 8 bits per channel this is a true colour. Because of the amount of colours true colour is used in graphics or images being processed.