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| This is the first picture with the grungey background. |
So I took away some of the pictures we did from the studio and tuned them into what turned out to be a mad photoshop experiment, which in my favour I think turned out pretty well. I started by adding some floral and abstract style brushes around my body and changed the colours around a bit, At this point it was looking very Microsoft Paint esque so I changed the layer styles of the brushes and added a few light asterix to my body. I then proceeded to have a colour tint background to my body so I created a gradient layer in red and blue and changed the layer style of the gradient to 'Linear Dodge (add)' all of a sudden it was all coming together, so after a bit of patching up and retouching with the photo and the effects I had a thought on what I could do next with the work so I added a stained paper texture which was really nice and grungy to add some depth and look to the background, lowering the opacity of the stains and giving it a red and blue gradient tint it all fit in quite nicely. I saved that as one version and then proceeded to create a second version without the grunge just to give it a more a veer towards the photography side rather than Graphic design. I then intended to use the design to see if I could make some CD covers out of it, after a second thought I then resized the photo to create a flyer for some sort of Party or Gig for example. I thought it would be good if I went with an American college theme after I found a nice old school font on the internet, after fiddling with the layer styles I got a really nice look.
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| This is the second of the pictures without the grunge. |
I think that this picture is the smarter of the two without the grunge because it looks tidy and more complex than the other, with the others you could argue the image is too busy but I think this one has a nice volume to it.
This is the flyer I made from the picture, the word 'Waterloo Sunset' is a song by The Kinks and I think the word and the look of the word really fits in with the design. After a second look at it I would certainly use it as a CD cover or a promotion advertisement on a website or in a magazine e.g.