Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The cover

The front and the back cover are now completed. I'm not sure if you can read it...
The title is "Dynamism of Light"


This is just dark blue background with various white grudge brush effects which the opacity reduced to 50%.

The cover (in the making)

With open hearted I volunteered myself to do the cover. I actually enjoy doing this and I followed a tutorial to make this glowing text effect. Right here.
But I did modify a bit since some of them does not resemble my desired glowing.

I used Helvetica bold for the font,


















 Perspective tool was used shown in this image.


I add blue lit at the background instead of white to let the light blend with the dark blue background.

Since the colour of the text seems a bit odd, I remove the layer containing the coloured glowing effect and end up like this, and move the text lower down to the left.
I also added white light strands to fill the space. The light strands were duplicated and Gaussian blur about 30 pixel. The coloured was by blending option, spectrum gradient. 

Finally, some grudge! Grudge brush effect that is :D
That way, it does not look so empty. The 
opacity of the white grudge was reduced to 60%

Final product

 Here are the final products of the calendar. Due to some minor glitches, I remove the 'outer glow' and enhance the 'inner glow'.
The numbering, the day and the month is the template done by our leader. We just change the holidays and the day of the month.


I did the same method with November.