Postcard Design Rationale

With the postcard, I was trying to achieve the satisfaction of making a cool-looking design I would actually be proud of. I chose graphics that dealt with football, more specifically my favorite team, the New Orleans Saints. It doesn't really apply to the quote, but it's football season and it was something I was into.

I changed around the hue and saturation a lot to add some color to it, as the teams colors are white, black, and gold - which go well with many colors. I obviously layered the pictures so they were all visible even if overlapping, and I feel I accomplished my goals.

I was having a hard time adding colors to the right parts, as it would often be too dark or light to see a certain picture in the group. However, with much trial and error I was able to get the placement right and the colors to look good where they were without too much contrast.

I'm most proud of how I used several pictures of my favorite sports team to make one visually attractive picture full of color, sweet pictures, and of course the Saints. If I had more time, I guess I would add a few more detailed pictures of players or logos to liven it up a bit.

Contact Sheet Design Rationale

In this project, I used a variety of images to create several perspectives of each image in a contact sheet.
I wasn't really hoping to achieve anything about how good it looked, I just wasnted to do it correctly and get a grasp on the basics to photoshop.
Some of the variations included higher/lower resolution pictures, adding colored tints or black and white affects, close-ups and wide angle shots, abstract views of an image, and photos with various photoshop effects used on it.

What I found to be most challenging was altering the resolution to crop the pictures to the right size, while still making them fit into the contact sheet appropriately. I solved these problems with trial and error, but mostly got some help from classmates.
What I am most proud of would probably just be finishing the assignment correctly. As a photoshop novice, I didnt really know what I was doing at first, but after a little practice I got the hand of it fairly well.
If I was allowed more time, the one thing I would probably do differently would be to experiment more with color, saturation, and other basic effects to get a better feel for them.
There were 6 different pictures used in all, and 23 pictures after editing. The contact sheet shows just a sample of how you can show different perspectives of a picture using photoshop.

Font Poem Design Rationale

In the font poem project, I was hoping to convey my chosen quote in a visual attractive way while also trying to make the layout appropriate for the quote. To do so, I used a variety of fonts and sizes. I made certain words larger to emphasize them, and also used effects like "skew" and "warp" to change the position and layout of the word to alter its appearance.

I found that the most challenging part of this assignment was to get the words sized and positioned in an abnormal fashion that didn't look stupid. I didn't want to just place the words randomly, but I also wanted to make it look kinda funky and abstract. I solved these problems just by trial and error, seeing what looked good and what didn't.

I'm most proud of the quote that i picked and how i conveyed it. I feel my quote strongly relates to me, and I did my best to present the quote in a way that proves the point the quote makes.

If I had more time, I would add some minor graphics, or maybe a few more effects on the letters so there was a little more than just words going on.

Foundations Exercise

In this project, I took two images of a hand (both sides) and made them appear transparent.
This effect makes the image more interesting, and sort of gives the impression the hands are touching.