Canon

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A brief history of Canon cameras.

1933 : Goro Yoshida and Sabura Uchida, his brother-in-law, wanted to make cameras to compete with the most advanced German models of the day so they founded Precision Optical Instruments Laboratry.

1934 : "Kwanon", Japan's first domestically-made 35mm focal plane shutter camera named after the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy.

1935 : "Canon" trademark registered.

1969 : Canon, inc. established.

1995 : Canon unveils the world's first zoom lens with image stabilization features.

Present : Canon keeps on producing high quality cameras, lenses and such to compete with other high ranked camera companies.

http://www.photoxels.com/history_canon.html

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

TOOLS USED

First, I used the Paintbrush Tool (B) to draw the batik design in the middle. I did them layer by layer so that later it wouldn't be difficult for me to add-on colours.

I did the yellow colour first followed by red, dark brown and then I changed the outer most outline of my design to dark blue.

I changed the paintbrush-like effect to Photoshop Effect's Artistic and chose Underpainting (since its a Batik design).

I did the circles using the Ellipse Tool (L), layer by layer and adjusted them to desired position. I also made the circles to different thickness so difference could be seen.

By using the Type Tool (T), I typed 'Canon Lens EF 50MM 1:1.4', went to Illustrator Effects's Warp and chose Arc. Adjust to desired position and locked it.

I made 'Canon Lens Made In Japan' into an arc just like last time and rotate it 180 degree. I placed it under the lens so that it could act like a stand.