Camera Manual

Camera Manual

In this part of the course are task was to create a 'Camera Manual' for people starting photography, so i made a nikon camera manual with the main setting on for new photographers

This is my final piece overall i think it went well and i got a good result there are a few things i would change, which would be make it a bit less simple and non unique, also i would change the style of drawing, but apart from that I'm pleased with my final piece, i put my final piece in a 'Flickr slideshow' as it is easier to view and takes less space up on my blog.

Designing/Making

When i was designing what my manual would look like i did a bit of research on white space and some other techniques for creating a manual to create my images i drew them in my sketchbook and scanned them onto my computer, then i took the scan and increased the darkness of the line and got rid of the white and cut and pasted them into my Manual.

This is me glueing my final piece together i used 'PVA' glue to stick it together as it will hold the manual together quite well, it was quite tricky as it leaked over and i had to let it set before doing the next page, so if i was to do something like this again i think i would use a glue stick.

At the last second i changed my background colour to blue because it looked a bit bland and plain so i went on the layer named background and did a colour overlay on it so i could change the colour i think this was a good last minute change

When i was making my Camera Manual i used groups to keep everything tidy on the layers and i named each new layer this was a good help as in my business card .psd i had layers everywhere and it was really hard to find the right layer. 

This is a photo of me using the 'Wacom bamboo' this was really useful for correcting bad lines in my drawings as I'm not that good at drawing with pens/pencils.

Here is how i coloured my drawings, i simply did this by double tapping the layer and going on colour overlay and chose the colour i wanted.

Some of my drawings were rough at the edges so what i did is a got the brush tool tweaked some of the setting via the brush presets tab and created this fin lined brush, i went over the lines with my 'Wacom Bamboo' which is a tablet drawing pad that you can get smooth lines out of.

This is the folder i got after i downloaded my font it contains a .ttf which is a True type font format of a file which means if you double click it you will get this pop out of the font and it will say 'install font' then it will install the font into your font dictionary, and then you can access your font on most software.

This is the font i chose for my manual I downloaded it from www.dafont.com, it was a handwritten font the reason i chose a handwritten font is because it makes the manual look more hand made and this was the style i was going for on my manual.

This is a screenshot of section 2 it was in complete at this time and i still had 2 boxes left to fill, which were the description of how to use the manual mode and what it is and the last page.

This is my first page when i was just over halfway done on this page at this stage i was still trying to develop my ideas and expand on them, all i had done here was the front page and a thew descriptive pages, something i would definitely do which i did not do, is get all the scans in before i start the manual because i found when i tried to do work at home, i did not have the scans.

This is the .psd file i downloaded of sir, it was a template in which it had the markings of were each page was going to be.

These 2 photos are the original drawings i did in my sketchbook i just did some simple symbols from the camera such as macro etc.. when i was drawing i noticed i was smudging the penciled drawings and this made it more difficult for me to get the scans into photoshop because when i used the 'Magic Wand' it got rid of the images as well