Poster assigment

Image for poster

How to Post Images

Using Photoshop
- All images must be flattened.
- All images must be RGB colour mode.
- All images must be JPEG.
- All images must be checked, and 72 dpi.

Shaping an Idea

Stage 1: Collect and Select
-Use images and words or phrases to determine an idea, theme
-Collect – open mind – subconscious
-Select – edit – three grouping – general ideas
-Revisit – Collect – add to collections
-Verbalize – add words to each collection


Stage 2: Develop the idea / mood
-Using colour, texture, patterns, lines and brushes
-Use three colours to create a colour scheme
-Determine the mood of colours dark /light, bright/subdue etc.
-Lines determine sight lines – static dynamic
-Textures, patterns, brushes help to create rhythm

Collect and Select

1. Open Mind (do not edit)
2. More is better (more images)
3. It may not fit my idea (doesn't matter)
4. Do not worry about file size
5. Allow for equal value of each image

Allow for ADD

Personal Experience

-Graphics 10 last Semester

  1. I started with an empty .
  2. I changed the backround colour from white to a dark red.
  3. I searcht in the internet for a picture of a triangle.
  4. After i found one i used the magic wand tool to delete the inside and the outside of the triangle so that just the lines remain.
  5. I put the triangle on a different layer into my projekt.
  6. I copyed the triangle layer 12 times and draged them all over each other.
  7. I took the magic wand tool to select and to color the areas originated from the triangles.
  8. I selected filters and texture an then texturizer.
  9. I searcht in the internet for a picture of a tree.
10. I turned the mode of the picture into grayscale.
11. I used the magic wand tool agein to select the tree trunk and the brenches

art in action