Description: A spiritual inspirational poster I created.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, Steps taken while designing): I began by acquiring an image of outer space, filled with lots of stars. I then obtained an image which was a close-up of a father supporting his infant’s hand with his finger. Using Photoshop I placed the hand picture on top of the outer space image, and muted the colors in the hand, and then layered them with “Overlay” so the colors of the space picture would integrate onto the hands. I added blue hues. I then added an S-curve onto the entire image by adjusting the Levels to add contrast. Cloud images were adjusted. I caused the edges of the hands images to become faded so the edges were lost and the 2 images became as one. I wanted to add a texture to the whole thing but when thinking about popular choices like “concrete” or “crumpled paper” I realized these things contradicted the natural theme of the image. I wanted something organic. I found water textures of a lake and ocean with criss-cross patterns. Water is the source of all life, and the edges complimented the curves of the already existing two images, so I felt like it was a good match. Finally I added the text and darkened the area behind it.

Message: The message behind this image is that the same Being who created the incomprehensible Universe, also created you. I find that powerful.

Audience: This poster is intended for a religious audience who believes in a God or spiritual creator who made all things. It is a broad and universal spiritual message.

Top Thing Learned: How to better combine different typefaces.

Filter / Colorization used and where it was applied: Blue hues and water texture was added. The water texture was muted out though on the subject of focus: the hands.

Color scheme and color names: Monochromatic, cyan/blue.

Title Font Name & Category: Avenir Light, Avenir Next Ultra Light Italic

Copy Font Name & Category:

Thumbnails of Images used:

 

Sources (Links to images on original websites / with title of site):

http://gde-fon.com/download/Star_space_Nebula/515833/6000×4500

http://www.textures.com/download/waterplain0020/19792

1. Description: A flier I created for a fictional event/promotion.
2. Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, FOCUS principles): The photo was taken by me with my camera, a Canon Rebel T3i, and Photoshop and InDesign was used to create the design elements of the flier itself.
3. Message: The message here is a fictitious one; to join an archeology expedition that is seeking more people who may be interested.
4. Audience: The audience intended would be young college students who have an interest in humanities or archeology. A “Pirates of the Caribbean” theme was used to market towards the current generation.
5. Top Thing Learned: I learned how to use my own creative content mixed with design elements found in Photoshop. The potential is great.
6. Color scheme and color names: Complimentary color schemes were used, a mix of Purple and yellow. The yellow was the dominate color of the photo, so that’s why I chose it as the primary and the purple to be the contrast.
7. Title Font Name & Category: Monotype Corsiva – Script
8. Copy Font Name & Category: Copperplate Gothic Light – San Serif
9. Thumbnail of original, unedited image inserted 
10. Date and location you took the photo(s): Photo was taken 10/15/2015 on my kitchen table. Prop used was my wife’s trinket box which is themed like a pirates treasure chest. Macro lens was used to bring out the details and give a close up. It doesn’t look as scary from a distance!

I’m not really a photographer, but I enjoyed seeing how I could become creative with this activity even though I have never had a passion for photographs. That said, I am a videographer, and the principles of photography apply to the basic principles of film. The outdoors shot has a wire going across the horizon which splits the image and makes the whole picture seem manipulated somehow, but it is oddly a natural occurrence that I would liked to have removed if I knew PhotoShop better. When setting up for the indoor light shot I used a mix of natural light with practical light that I added via common sources. I dropped food coloring into a glass and took a succession of photos. The biggest challenge was getting the whole cloud of liquid in focus because with a shallow depth of field, only a few pixels worth would be in focus on such an ameba-like shape. This meant I had to put my camera to Manual settings and set up for a deep-focus. To do this I increased my shutter-speed and closed the aperture. I raised my ISO to compensate. The result is the entire volume of the water in focus. I later edited the colors of the dye in Photoshop slightly using the Selective Color adjustment.

My living room becomes this magical-like light-room for about 15 minutes during golden hour. The whole room turns golden orange and vibrant because my window directly faces the sunset unobstructed. I waited for this time and asked my wife to stand directly into the light and smile. We have a ceiling light thats somewhat big. Originally it was directly left of her face in the background of this shot and was very distracting. Using Photoshop I was able to remove it.

Description: An event flier ad I created to showcase a fictional event called the “Garden Fundraiser.”

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, FOCUS principles): For software, I used Microsoft Word only.

Message: The message of this flier ad is to come to a fundraiser in the form of a gardening event.

Audience: The audience is focused more on women than any other demographic. Yet also applies to anyone, regardless of gender, who may be interested in gardening and plant science.

Color scheme and color names: All colors were pulled from the original image to use as a base. From there, custom colors were created and manipulated to give variety.

Top Thing Learned: The thing I learned the most from creating this ad flier was how to use Microsoft Word in order to do thing that look like they were created in InDesign.

Title Font Name & Category: Monotype Corsiva: Script (to match the image typeface)

Copy Font Name & Category: Calibri: San-serif

Scanned images used, sources, original sizes, location of scanner used: A scanner was used in my home to upload the flower image. The image was scanned from my wife’s calendar. I own no magazines, print ads, or image books.

Description: A flier I designed, advertising the Graduate Leadership Conference.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, FOCUS principles): I used Adobe InDesign as the main piece of software for this creation. The principle of proximity was used in order to differentiate the title with the body of the design. Alignment and asymmetry was also used when configuring the positioning of the text and images.

Message: I am communicating to recent graduates or soon to be graduates with this piece of media.

Audience: 21 to 30 year olds who are recently graduated.

Top Thing Learned: The top thing I learned was the importance of alignment and keeping the size of proportions relative to each other.

Title Font Name & Category: Palatino, Old Style

Copy Font Name & Category: Kannada Sangarn MN, San-serif

Links to images used in this project:  https://byui.brainhoney.com/Frame/Component/CoursePlayerenrollmentid=32379964&itemid=C7OID