Mini FYP

Deciding on what I wanted to choose as a topic for my mini FYP was one of the most difficult parts of the whole project for me. I knew that my passion lied in graphic design through image editing and I knew that it was important to be able to use this project as a baseline or practice for my real Final Year Project in the final year. Because of this, I decided to choose a project in which I could learn more and improve on my image editing skills using Adobe Photoshop in preparation for when I would plan on using it again for my real FYP.

I found the sense of realism from image merging fascinating as when done at a highly skilled level, the merging can be seamless like there was no editing done in the first place. This technique was something I always wanted to learn so I wanted to focus on it for my 2 image compositions I would create for this project. The first was a mockup advertisement poster for the 2022 Volkswagen Passat car. I took a stock photo of the car from Adobe Stock Images and began by making a selection around the car then cutting it out and pasting it onto a background I found. The size and positioning of the car was important in trying to make it look like it fit into the gravel of the background image. To improve on this, I added a number of lighting effects, shading and shadows using a variety of tools in Photoshop.

As for my second image composition, I decided to take a stock image of a woman running on a bridge and cut her out using precise selection and paste her into a background of a morning boardwalk. Similar to the VW car ad, I used a number of tools and techniques including sizing, positioning, lighting, shading and shadows to make her fit into the boardwalk scene as realistically as I possibly could given my skill level at the time.