Photobook Final(ly)

Hi there! I have just finished my final project of Comm 300- a photobook! All of the pictures in my book come from almost all of my blog posts throughout this semester. I organized all of the pictures into different categories and displayed them across 22 different pages. I designed the book in Adobe InDesign and then got it printed from MyPublisher so that I can have a hard copy of it as well.

I’m super happy with how everything turned out, and I can’t believe all that I have learned about composition, lighting, editing in Photoshop, and much more through this Digital Imaging class.

Enjoy!

 

 

Link to my photobook

 

 

 

Fine Art Print

Original Photo:

 

After Edits:

 

I love this photo because silhouettes make for some beautiful portraits, and I loved the background through the window. I took the photo in the ghost town of Bannack, Montana. This is one of the only shots that I had pre-planned before I got there, and I knew that when I saw the cowboy standing right in front of the window that it was my chance!

When I went to edit the photo, I made a lot of little edits. The major edits I did was an adjustment layer using match color and turned up the luminance and color intensity to deepen the colors a bit. I turned down the blacks and shadows in the image so that it looked more like a silhouette rather than just a dark portrait of the cowboy. The last major change I did was turn up the contrast to deepen the blacks and other colors even more. To print the picture at Quick Ship & Copy I lightened it up a bit because I knew that it would be darker after printing. The colors didn’t turn up exactly as I had hoped for but overall I do love it and I’m very happy with the turnout!

Here’s a video of me explaining the process of shooting, editing, and printing.

 

Top 5 Favorite

These are my top five favorite pictures that I have taken this semester. Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

Paragraph Styles

Here is a tutorial I did on how to use Paragraph Styles in InDesign. I created a video and a PDF of a step-by-step version on how to do this. It’s very convenient to know how to do this because  it makes styling your headings and paragraphs simple and easy to do with just a click of a button. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Photobook: Covers, First Spread, TOC, and Professional Page

I am starting to build my photobook with my own custom design and images that I photographed and edited. I used Adobe InDesign to create two separate documents: one that contained my front and back cover, and another one that contained my Portrait spread, Table of Contents, and Professional Page.