Layout

This week we took our images that we shot over spring break and made a layout with them. I resized and toned all three photo's and also made copies for the internet.

To resize and tone I took the pictures, changed the brightness and contrast so there was no color that was excessive. I also changed the sharpness on the images. I cropped all the unneeded elements.

I then created the layout, The Nichols Bridgeway is the focus because I am mostly talking about art and architecture in the city. I then created captions that did not take away from the images by using a muted font, but making it bold so it will still be seen.

The headline I used was cheesy, "Sweet Home Chicago," but I used the word Chicago to make people look at the photo of the Nichols Bridgeway. I chose black and red because they weren't too showy but they still grab attention.

Type

Throughout this course, we will be making a specific logo for our magazine. We are allowed to somewhat pick and choose the font and color to best fit the magazine we will be writing for. It is a student travel magazine focusing on Peru, where we will be creating our own layouts to go with stories of students that have traveled there. These are some of the logos I chose.

Spring Break Photo Restoration

This week we were to have taken pictures of our spring break. I then took my pictures and made two copies, one for a magazine and the other for an online source. The caption would read, "Many people travel from around the world to see "Cloud Gate," or more commonly known as "The Bean" by Anish Kapoor during their spring break."

I had a set of steps that needed to be completed for both photos. First, I changed the resolution size to 300 to fit the magazine size. Then I made tone adjustments by lowering some of the magenta and black tones, and adding some cyan tones. I also took away some of the yellow. I then sharpened the image. I then cropped away any of the background that was not necessary and saved it as a TIFF file.

To make the photo useable for the web, I then cropped the photo again to only focus on "The Bean." I then changed the resolution to 72, and resampled the sides to make them small enough for the internet. I changed it back to an RGB picture, as opposed to a magazines CYMK print. Lastly, I saved the photo as a JPG file and was ready to post.

Bisabuela Restoration

This week I refurbished an old painting using Photoshop. I was given the old painting that had water stains, holes and many other marks. Using Photoshop I covered the holes that were in the original. I also used the stamp tool to clear the painting of any stains. Lastly, on the woman's face I made sure there was not too many other stains. You can see the difference between the first and second images.