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. I want someone to look at my poster and have it be one that sticks out at them and be something they will remember forever. The elements in my design are very significant to my poster. I think putting photos of both Seattle and Pullmans shows the beauty in both places in a combined fashion, but also standing on their own. My design process is more simple than most. I decided to just use layers and start by contrasting the saturation of the colors in each of my photos. I started having the Seattle photo be black and white because I thought it looked better, but after receiving feedback from my peers, I realized it just dulled the photo, so I decided to add color to this city that is full of life. I also used the free transform tool to make the Pullman photos more transparent and blend together better with the Seattle photo. I wanted to take away some of the emphasis on the Pullman photos so that the Seattle photo stuck out just as much as the Pullman ones. To finalize my poster, I used the paint brush tool to add the white, glowing lines in between my text to show that I started in Seattle and moved to Pullman. 

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. I didn’t use too many tools in the Adobe Software, but just the right amount to pull my poster together. 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. One 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. Another problem I faced was figuring out how to round the edges of the photos, but with the help of my TA, we watched a tutorial on how to do it and I ended up just making the photos more transparent because I felt it looked better with the overall look of the poster.