Filter Fun

I really enjoyed using the filter tool for several of my landscape photos. It's very simple to use. Go to the tool bar at the top of the page that says "filter," it's really that easy. I then choose filter galleries where I was able to chose from artistic, bush stroke, distort, sketch, texture etc to add attributions to my photographs.  Here is my original photo:

Under the artistic filter I found a "film grain" application I liked. When I applied this attribution to the photograph it remained me of these spray painted portraits a street artists was creating in Mexico. 

Filters are a great way to alter the mood of a photograph. You can put color filters over photographs as well. For example, we can put a dark or grey filter over this photo to change the time of day. This can also be achieved by going to the top tool bar and selecting "image" then "adjustments." Under this tab you will find "brightness/contrast." Here is this photo as if it were taken at night:

Foldy Publications

I found this brochure online and was instantly attracted to it because of its bold colors and fonts! These colors and fonts stay consist throughout the entire brochure and create an energetic mood. I also like the use of the artistic/distorted photos throughout the piece!

Good Grid

Newspaper do a great job useing grids. This is a 5 column grid I found in the Washington Post. When I first saw the layout of this newspaper I was a little overwhelmed at first, but I believe there are 6 grids structured into 5 columns for an easier read.

Magazine layout

This article was found in Travel and Leisure Magazine. Not only does the article contain a lot of C.R.A.P, but I think the idea of the article is very creative. The headline reads "Views from the top" the article guides you through "the world's most dramatic observation decks" including: Ledge at Willis Tower's Skydeck, The Grand Canyon Skywalk, and The Shanghai World Financial Center Sky Walk Observatory. I really like the angles the photographs were taken. Its very interesting and grabs the readers attention. There isn't an overwhelming amount of text either. The text and photographs are balanced nicely. Although the layout is only a two column grid, I think it works nicely here!

How InDesign has helped me!

InDesign has really helped me create elaborate designs for PBDS 502! This week we had to create two examples of "Type as an Image." I used the words upside-down and communication. Without InDesign creating the word communication effectively would have been pretty difficult. My idea was to have lots of text running off the page and the word "communication" to appear to be shown through a magnifying class. I used kearning to create more spacing between the characters in the word “communication.” I also created a tint of black in my swatches to use on the body text surrounding the word “communication” to create a magnified feel to the word. I also used layers to overlap the text boxes. I was overall very pleased with the result of the piece.

Text only as a solution!

This advertisement is from the NYC Child Study Center and is public education campaign to inform people of psychiatric disorders. This advertisement uses words from different magazines and newspapers to create a ransom note from Bulimia.This advertisement works using text only because it easily conveys the message to the reader. 

This final advertisement is from a production company and I chose it because it’s the exact same idea I am using for my Type as Image project. The word upside-down is arranged to represent the meaning of the word. I love how some of the letters, but not all, are upside down. Instead of using a “w” the designer used an upside-down “m.” This could only be achieved by using an appropriate type face, which the designer did a great job picking!