In my GT (gifted and talented) class at school, we have made a motivational poster.For my motivational poster, I had to do many things. First I had to put my
personal quotes in a Photoshop document. They also needed to be in two different text layers. Behind them, I needed my three personal representation images from Google+, as well as a portrait of my face. The text needed to be kerned to be more visually pleasing and fit the entire page. It also needed to stand out against the pictures, so I added effects such as drop shadow, bevel and emboss, and outer glow. The whole thing needed to have a triadic color scheme, so I got help, and learned how to make one and put it on my images. They still needed to have visual balance, though, so I adjusted things like curves.
When I was actually doing it, there were many steps. First, I opened Photoshop and made a document. Then, I copy-pasted my personal quotes and manifesto into it, and kerned the text with a certain tool so it was more visually pleasing and fit the whole page. Next, I put my images behind the text as a background by saving them into my file, and dragging them into Photoshop. Keep in mind that throughout this whole process I got help from the person next to me, who was super helpful. Anyway, after that I added affects to the text so that I could see it better against the background images, and to make it more interesting. Finally, I created a triadic color scheme for the whole thing, with the help of the person sitting next to me. I had to tweak that a lot so that I could still see the pictures clear enough, but also make have a visible effect on it. For that, I mostly used my "curves" layer.
I think the biggest challenge overall was making my triadic color scheme work. That was where I got the most help from the person next to me. At first, I didn't even know how to make a triadic color scheme in Photoshop, but they had done it last year, so they knew how. It was tough for me to get the right colors, the right intensity, and other factors correct, so that it looked good. I think that I could have improved the poster, though. The way our grading worked was that my teacher looked at my poster for various things, and I was missing one. As I told you earlier, I needed two different text layers for my manifesto and my personal quotes. I only had one text layer, though, so I got 7 out of 8 possible points. That means I got an "A", which is good, but I would rather have figured out how to make it two layers and get 8 than 7 points. Even the very helpful person next to me didn't know how to do it, because of the way that my text was shaped. Part of my quotes shared a line with the start of my manifesto, so we didn't know how to make them two different layers. I think that was the only way I could've improved, and I am proud of myself and very happy with the way it turned out. Here are pictures of my text layer and image layers with no effects on them, and the final product! I hope reading it inspires you as much as making it inspired me!( Which is a lot, by the way). Thanks for reading!
When I was actually doing it, there were many steps. First, I opened Photoshop and made a document. Then, I copy-pasted my personal quotes and manifesto into it, and kerned the text with a certain tool so it was more visually pleasing and fit the whole page. Next, I put my images behind the text as a background by saving them into my file, and dragging them into Photoshop. Keep in mind that throughout this whole process I got help from the person next to me, who was super helpful. Anyway, after that I added affects to the text so that I could see it better against the background images, and to make it more interesting. Finally, I created a triadic color scheme for the whole thing, with the help of the person sitting next to me. I had to tweak that a lot so that I could still see the pictures clear enough, but also make have a visible effect on it. For that, I mostly used my "curves" layer.
I think the biggest challenge overall was making my triadic color scheme work. That was where I got the most help from the person next to me. At first, I didn't even know how to make a triadic color scheme in Photoshop, but they had done it last year, so they knew how. It was tough for me to get the right colors, the right intensity, and other factors correct, so that it looked good. I think that I could have improved the poster, though. The way our grading worked was that my teacher looked at my poster for various things, and I was missing one. As I told you earlier, I needed two different text layers for my manifesto and my personal quotes. I only had one text layer, though, so I got 7 out of 8 possible points. That means I got an "A", which is good, but I would rather have figured out how to make it two layers and get 8 than 7 points. Even the very helpful person next to me didn't know how to do it, because of the way that my text was shaped. Part of my quotes shared a line with the start of my manifesto, so we didn't know how to make them two different layers. I think that was the only way I could've improved, and I am proud of myself and very happy with the way it turned out. Here are pictures of my text layer and image layers with no effects on them, and the final product! I hope reading it inspires you as much as making it inspired me!( Which is a lot, by the way). Thanks for reading!
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