Photoshop

So today I spent my time messing around on photoshop and looking back over techniques we learnt right at the beginning of year one! 

 I looked  at Gaussian blur, Motion blur, Halftone pattern, Luminosity and Replacing colour!

cloud nine - white jasmine

Ever since we got our bottle design back we haven't been 100% about it! Originally, as you can see from previous posts, the bottle was blue, short and stumpy, and the text was in a very boring and dull style! We changed all of that ourselves on photoshop. We stretched the bottle to look it a lot more elegant and also did the same with the lid as we thought that was the main thing making it look a lot more manly that we wanted. 

We then changed the colour of  the bottle by changing the hue and saturation until reaching our desired result. We always wanted the bottle to be very pale as this is the colour we want our fragrance to actually be. 

The final part of the new and improved bottle was embossing the new logo on our bottle. It gives the logo a slightly raised effect and adds a lot of depth, a long with the shadow behind the bottle. 

Cloud Nine photoshoot

We came up with the idea above when we were on photoshop experimenting! The fragrance  bottle will be surrounded by jasmine, as that's a key scent within our fragrance. Both the bottle and the jasmine will be placed on a crinkled bed sheets to represent the fact it's a scent to help you sleep in a less obvious way that a woman asleep on a bed.

At first I didn't like the sound of having the bottle placed on bed sheets but I love it now! It's  very simple yet effective, very much like our bottle and packaging. 

As we have given the brief to the product designer we are now just waiting for him to get back to us with his designs. 

The only issue with this is that we might now have an actual bottle and instead just a digital version on CAD. However, we thought about this and discussed it and came up with the idea of adding it to the image with photoshop. Hopefully it will look as good as we expect it to!

Experimentation

We spent the afternoon experimenting with more ideas for our photoshoot by using photoshop. The examples here are me experimenting with different techniques such as layering and blurring. I like both techniques but I personally think layering suits our brand and product the most.  

The bottom image shows blurring. I thought it would look cool to highlight the eye make up and keep the rest of her face and body slightly blurry. 

My favourite of the images is the second image with both bottles on there. I love how delicate the flowers look within the bottle. 

The top image is nice as well but I'm not 100% about it! I like how the bottles opacity is low but I'm not sure the right image is behind it or maybe the wrong effect is on the image as I think it would look a lot better if it was softer.