Making of Physics Revision Website BannerAmanda Ho

Background• First, I made background black• Next, I went to filter noise add noise (set to 70%) • After, I went to filter blur motion blur (set to 90 degrees)• Then, I hit Ctrl+f 7 times• After, created a new layer but hid it • Then, clicked on the first layer gradient overlay select rainbow

gradient

The background should look black with patterned stripes

• Then, make the second layer visible (un-hide it). • Next, I went to the blending options and chose ‘Hard-Light’

Tutorial • The tutorial I used to help me make this banner was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqSfSyaqG8 • Although this tutorial helped me make my background, there were however some

differences from the tutorial shown on the link to my final product. • 1) One difference is that the tutorial recommends to set the blending option of the rainbow

gradient to ‘Linear Lights’ but I chose to set it to ‘Hard Lights’ instead because I thought Hard Lights displayed the colours more evenly and vividly where as in Linear Lights, some colours were distributed unevenly:

• 2) Another difference is that the tutorial goes on to adding black shadows and shaded effects whereas for mine, I chose to keep the background as it was and start to add text and pictures instead:

LINEAR LIGHTS

HARD LIGHTS

Text• Downloaded font ‘CornFed’ and used it to spell title of revision website

‘PHYSICS FOR FANATICS’ • The word ‘PHYSICS’ was made to look bigger and more effects were used

to make it stand out:

Pictures & Illustrations• Pictures related to the topic Physics were then added, such as a lightbulb

representing the circuits and energy topic, and the speakers representing the waves aspect of the physics topic:

• Afterwards, the rest of the text was added, displaying and completing the physics revision website’s full name

EVALUATION• I chose to do a rainbow coloured background or ‘spectrum’ because our

revision website’s background theme is mainly blue and so I wanted to add a bright splash of colour which would make it look more appealing. Also, I used this opportunity to make our website’s ‘brand logo’ known

• As you can see from the previous slides, I did not follow the tutorial exactly, I just followed the tutorial and adapted as well as manipulated it to suit what I wanted to make. For example, since it is a website banner, I made the size of my banner extremely long and used the tutorial as a guideline, allowing me to explore and choose freely what I wanted to include on the banner.

• I think I was very successful because after uploading the banner onto the revision website, I am satisfied with the final product: