The first thing we had to do was go to the print bureau to get our images printed onto a material of our choice. I decided to choose the material called 'Satin', I chose this because I thought it gave the image the best finish; It didn't have too much of a glossy look but wasn't too matte either. I printed my image of Finn off because after a lot of feedback from my peers it became apparent that that was one of the most favoured photos that I had taken. I then had to cut out a sheet of paper that was essentially a sheet of glue that when heated would stick my image to the glue sheet. Both my image and the glue sheet sit in what is basically a huge heated vacuum. The air is then sucked of the image and the two materials are stuck together. The process is then repeated but this time resting the two pressed images on top of the foam board. They all go back into the vacuum machine and you are left with the 3 materials stuck together. I then had to use a special cutting device to trim down the edges of my photo so there was no excess material exposed. This is the stage where the one thing that went wrong actually happened. I tried to get as close to the image as possible but on 2 of the 4 sides of the photo I didn't get close enough and there is hairline piece of white material attached to the photo which is too think to be able to cut again without ruining the picture itself.
I repeated this entire process again but with a photo from my new shots of my model that I made shave. The process turned out as well as it could've done which I am very happy about and there was no excess material showing.
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