Microsoft go to Birmingham P4 D1

ep Microsoft has approached Visual Impact to produce some displays for its stand at a show to be held in the Birmingham NEC publicising its newest operating system. Produce a graphic that could be printed onto a large piece of card to be used on the Microsoft stand.

Audience
It needs to look professional
The company logo needs to be large and the title of the company.
It needs to involve the idea of being happy

Colour Scheme
The colour scheme needs to match the same scheme as the current Microsoft colour’s.

Final Design

D1

My design does reach all of the criteria it does and does look professional, the Microsoft vista logo is currently showing large at the top of the picture, followed by Microsoft and their own slogan. The picture does give the customer the feel of happiness as the people are cheering and look very happy. The picture does not have a colour background and which helps the image of the happy people and logo stand out.

Software and Tools

I have decided to again use the photoshop application to design this poster for Microsoft. This is because i needed many tools to develop this poster.The tools which i used included the blending tool which was used to blend the happy people in to the white background. I also needed to use text effect and photoshop has many proffesional tools and effect which can be added to the text such as shaddow effect which i used. Photoshop is also very useful when it comes to designing the layout, as it has an easy drag and drop interface. I also used the resize and crop tool to many of the images used, this is because i needed them to fit a specigic size to fill the displays canvas size.

Colour Depth

The high colour depth which i used, was to allow the prints out of the poster to be the best quality that they can be so to acheive this i needed to use the highest colour depth that there is. I also needed to make the images which i used within the poster large which was required by the user.

File Format/Size

I again saved the image as a jpeg because jpeg it compresses with little loss of the image quality. The picture size i have chosen to use is 1000x1598, i have chosen to use this because it is a suiable size for a mock up of the actually real life size as i would like the proportions to be the same. I also saved the image as a jpeg so it can be viewed on the internet, also by saving the file as a jepg means that the file is versatile and can be viewed on any computer even without the adobe photoshop software. However this means that file can not be edited once saved as a jpeg but does mean that the file is smaller than the actually photoshop file type.