The Elements of Photography

This one poster 'What's your identity?' shows the use of Space, Colour, Typography, and Contrast along with many other poster design features. This poster uses a good amount of Space because this poster doesn't have any clutter, the picture along with the texts are evenly distributed. Also, the big amount of space inside this poster catches the eye of the audience. This one poster uses a few colour schemes, but not too much colour. A bunch of "cool" colours are used inside this form of media. There is only one font used inside this poster and it's very easy and clear to read. Also, the tittle of it is bigger than the rest of the text. The good use of font style and size shows that there is a good use of Typography. In order for the text to be readable to the audience, the font colour must be a lighter or darker colour than the background. For example in this poster; light grey and a light violet colour font is against the black background. From my opinion, I think this poster follows many rules of poster designing.

  This photo follows many poster designing rules as well as the one above. This poster follows Space, Typography, Contrast, Colour, Limit Info and many more rules. Why does this form of media follow the rule of Space? Because there isn't much information inside this poster making it have no clutter. This catches any audience's eye. Also, because the 'conserve rain water' poster doesn't have much going on inside, the rule of 'Limit Info' is also followed because this poster has only one theme. The font inside this advertisement is very easy to read and the colour of the font is against a lighter colour background. Like the 'What's your identity?' advertisement above, this poster follows the 'poster design' rules.

The '23:59' poster also follows the rules of designing a poster. The Space, Typography, Colour and Contrast is well used inside this big picture. The Typography is well used because the font size, colour and style is very easy to read. The colour of the font is a darker colour against a lighter background, making the design eye catching for the audience. There's a good use of space inside this advertisement because there's only a few things making it a not cluttered advertisement. '23:59' is a poster that follows the 'rules' of poster designing.

Photoshop Postcard

I chose the file format JPG for a few reasons. This file format works good with photographs and images containing many colors. This file format works better for graphic programs such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, that allows you to view the image in good quality. I used two original images in this assignment. The first original image I used was for my background. This picture consisted of a sunset on a beach. And the second original image I used consisted of a women at a spa, relaxing. The size of the background image in pixels is 590 (width) 392 (height). I had this idea to make this post card 'Relaxation is Key' because of school. School can be a very stressful environment where you cannot focus if you're stressed immensely. If you are relaxed and non-stressed however, the student can focus and succeed in work, tests, etc. In creation of this postcard, my steps included; (1) opening the 'beach' image file I had saved in my Home Drive. (2) Open the 'woman in spa' image in a separate page in Photoshop that I also had saved in my Home Drive. (3) I transferred the 'woman in spa' image onto the 'beach' image using the move tool. (4) I used the lasso tool to outline the woman's face I wanted to include in the post card. (5) In the masks panel, I clicked on the 'Add a pixel mask' button making a mask appear. (6) I feathered and smoothed out the mask by clicking the 'mask edge' button in the mask panel and choosing how I want my mask image to look like. (7) The last step I used was clicking on the 'text' button in the tool bar on the left hand side and typed in the words "Relaxation is Key" before customizing the lettering to my liking. After all of these steps, the final product was made as shown above. 

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