Ideas and Inspiration:
For this Graphic Design project, I decided to create a poster illustrating moving from my hometown of Seattle, to my new home in Pullman. Seeing as my topic is focused on living away from my family and moving away for college, a poster filled with pictures from both Seattle and Pullman seemed relevant and interesting to me. I have never really distinguished the difference between the two places, and this project is giving me the opportunity to do just that.
Looking through people’s past projects from previous semesters inspired me to go with the poster look. There were so many beautifully designed ideas, but personally, I think I can be the most creative by simply making a poster and spicing it up as much as I can. I did not research a ton before coming up with my idea, but I, instead, thought about the different posters I have seen in my lifetime and which ones have constantly stuck with me. Thinking about the end result of this project, I want someone to look at my poster and have it be one that stuck out at them and be something they will remember forever. The elements in my design, as I work towards making them even better, will be very significant to my poster. I think putting photos of both Seattle and Pullman will show the beauty in both places in a combined fashion, but also standing on their own. In the moment, my design process is very simple. I decided to just use layers and start by contrasting the saturation of the colors in each of my photos. As I work to make this even better, I plan on cutting and blending the photos and making the colors shine in their own individual ways.
Collecting photos for this was quite simple. I absolutely love taking pictures, so finding good times and places to take pictures of such pretty places was honestly pretty fun for me. Sunset is my favorite time to take photos, hence the reason two out of the three photos were taken at sunset. As of now, the tools I used in the Adobe software is very minimal because I wanted to start at a basic level and progress my project over time. I cropped the photos and used rotation to put each one at a slant. I also added saturation to bring out the coloring in each photo, while bringing the background saturation down to have a good backdrop base. The only problem I ran into was finding tools on the side. I realized that you really have to just hover over the objects and a title and information of what each tool does is exemplified. As this is a rough draft, I am very excited to continue on making this poster look absolutely amazing and something people will remember forever.
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Hello- The draft of your graphic design project fits well with your topic. I can see your passion about the topic through your post and the desire to represent that as a visual. To start, I would suggest a brighter color tone throughout the poster. Seattle and Pullman are both cities full of life, but the hue saturation makes it rather gloomy. The dark tint of the background picture hides the beauty that is already within that picture, so finding a different saturation that can highlight that picture instead could make a huge difference. In addition, the two other photos have good color in them, but I would suggest rounding out the edges because the square shape on top of background is rather abrupt. One area where your design is already strong is the pictures themselves and the overall layout. They are beautiful pictures that coherently tell a story about your topic. The text was also used minimally and served a great purpose.
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After reading the feedback comments, I have realized there are still a few changes I need to make to my poster in order to perfect it. One thing I am going to do is put more color into the Seattle photo. As one of my group members said, Seattle and Pullman are both cities that show a lot of life, so I should not showcase Seattle as a gloomy place, even though it does rain often. Another thing I am going to do is cut and blend the pictures on top of the photo of Seattle. I think this will make my poster look a lot more professional and bring out the colors even more on the pictures of Pullman. The final thing I am going to do is round the edges of the photos of Pullman. I think rounding the edges will pull the whole poster together and the final product will be what I visualized when I came up with this idea. I will have to rewatch the cutting and blending photo tutorial to make sure I remember what tools to use for that, but otherwise I should not be facing anymore challenges as I complete my final draft.
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