Motivational Poster

Wondering about the requirements for our new project in our GT class? Don't worry, we have a lot of those! To begin, our poster is required to have 3 images that symbolize you in a certain way. Along with those 3 images, we need a portrait of our face so all together we need 4 images. We also need 2 text layers, one named manifesto and the other named personal quotes. Those are our layer requirements. However, we still have design requirements. All of our text needs to be kerned to fill the entire page, having no holes or blank spaces. Another expectation is having a triadic color scheme (which needs one dominant and two harmonious colors). Finally, we need to have adjustment layers for images, and blending options for text layers. That's it! Although it may seem like a large amount of work, it's really not. All we need is persistence, and our class has plenty of that!

To start this project, we needed a list of personal quotes. We would later need them to fill in space. After having our personal quotes in line, we needed to write a manifesto. Writing the manifesto wasn't all too difficult, just some what time consuming. Then, we needed one portrait picture and three pictures that symbolize ourself. Finally, we get to start the photoshop process. We copy paste our manifesto and personal quotes into photoshop and begin to kern them. Kerning is a very difficult process in which you space out the text to make it look visually appealing. Once the kerning is completed, we add our 4 pictures into the photoshop document. Since the text layers and picture layers look so bland, our next task is to add a triadic color scheme. We also add adjustment layers for each text layer and each image layer. That's it! Despite all of the steps it took to complete, I really enjoyed doing this project.

The biggest challenge we faced during this project, in my opinion was kerning. Kerning requires a lot of time and if you mess it up, it can have bad results. Kerning all in all isn't too hard, just very time consuming. My final picture isn't perfect in it's kerning, but I believe it's to the best of my ability in the time I had to complete this project. In my next photoshop assignment, I plan on doing even better kerning, so my "amazing" photoshop skills will shine.