Word Project

I chose a picture of a girl on rifle during a DCI show as my image.  Seeing as the night sky is completely black, I wasn't able to use black for my background color so I chose a violet.  I added text of the underlying part of the image and warped it to fit the area.  Then I copied it on the background image and pasted it in place on the text layer.  The flag poles were difficult to do because they are so thin, and only one of them actually resembles a pole.  If I redid this, I would have cropped out the flag in the top left corner.

Identity Project

For the background, I used an image of a pool because I really like how light reflects off of water. In the center there is a color guard flag and rifle because I'm in color guard and my favorite piece of equipment is rifle. The tip of the rifle is in front of the silk and the pole in front of the rifle neck. I cut everything out using either the magnetic lasso tool or the polygonal lasso tool. Below the equipment is the Sherlock logo because it's one of my favorite tv shows. I lowered the opacity on that to make it look nicer. In the bottom right corner is Adele because she is my favorite singer, and in the other corner is Rhiannon McGavin because she is my favorite poet. In the original picture her hair was cropped so I covered it with a leaf crown. In the upper right corner is a watercolor tube because I love painting. Opposite that is the Glossier logo and a bird of paradise flower because I like glossier products and the hotel we stay at when my family goes to California has a whole garden of bird of paradise flowers. I overlaid the lyrics to Glory and Gore by Lorde, because it was the song I used for my color guard solo.

Typography

Typography Using 'M'

I feel that the strongest aspect of my typography project is how I used the warp tool to make the two blue Ms look squished. For the curves, I made a long line of text and compressed it horizontally until it no longer looked like it was composed of Ms, and applied the curve fx and flipped the second one to create an upside down M. The outline of the hearts is created by a lot of Ms at a very small font. I lowered the opacity on some of the layers to create a more interesting look. The green background is created of overlapping flipped Ms as well.

Polaroids

          For my polaroid project, I used 13 polaroid frames to crop a picture of me.  I didn't place any of them similarly so as to make them look scattered onto the background.  I put parts of the background image into the foreground over the photos (the crochet needle, arm, and coffee cup) with the magnetic lasso tool to show depth.  The part I pulled forward was my hair (by removing part of the polaroid frames), so I removed parts of the polaroid frames so it looked like it was over them.  I chose a background that doesn't have a lot of loud colors so that it wouldn't take away from the polaroids.

DVD Cover

          I made this DVD cover of Holes by starting off by creating the half inch margin for the spine.  I wanted to make this more sarcastic so instead of Walt Disney, this is made by "Wait Gisney", and is entitled "Holes - aka that one movie about that one guy with that really weird name."  I created the review/summary on the back to be satirical as well "Stanley Yelnats has a history of bad luck in his family.  He gets sent to a juvenile delinquent camp in the middle of nowhere to dig holes.  There he meets Hector Zeroni and they run away, eat some onions, and find Stanleys long lost treasure.  In the end, his family makes shoes stink less."  I faded the scene of Stanley and Zero so that it looked less rigid and created a background for the front cover.

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