Camera Manual

One of our unit 1 tasks was to create a camera manual. I decided to create a manual describing and illustrating the different settings that are featured on a camera. First I sketched out cameras and a variety of settings that I can use on the booklet. For a professional look to the manual I drew the cameras in detail with shading so that they look realistic.

I then scanned these drawings into Photohop so that they could be edited and coloured for the booklet. I went to 'Threshold' and changed the settings so that the drawings were all black and white. To enable them to be usable on my booklet, I used the magic wand tool to delete all the white so a black drawing remained that could be coloured in and neatened up. I also did the same to the camera setting drawings so that they too could be used on the manual.

I then chose which fonts I wanted to use off a website called Dafont, that offers free fonts to download. I chose a sans serif and a script font to use on the booklet as felt these were professional but gave a relaxed and friendly feel.

Using Photoshop I created a document that would show the layout of the booklet. I separated the document into squares so to show where each page starts and finishes. This is so that I can place the elements on the squares and align the text and images on each page to ensure they were straight. This would become a booklet when printed and cut out. 

Below is the finished document filled with all the text and images to create a booklet. This is ready to be printed off and cut out so to be a booklet that could be used.

When I had printed the document off I cut it into strips using a cutting board, ruler to have straight and neat edges and a sharp knife. 

Here are the final pictures of the booklet. As you can see I have used bright colours to make the booklet bright and interesting. This is to make learning about the different settings seem fun instead of reading a dull block of text. I also added colourful pictures of the settings next to the name so to give an indication of what the setting looks like on the camera, as usually it does not have the name but an image. Therefore customers know what setting they are reading about.