Assignment 5: Photoshop Insertion

I decided to insert myself in two different places because I would love to travel to both and I wanted to practice a little more with the lasso tool. 

The first place I decided to PhotoShop myself in is Hawaii. I always wanted to go there, and was even considering going to college there. This was my first insertion so I look a little bright but I did attempt to blend myself as much as i could with the background elements.

 

The second place I have always wanted to go is Paris. I had to crop the image for this photo so it wouldn't be so far away, to the point where I would have to insert myself even smaller. With the free transform tool I did my best in sizing myself appropriately. I also changed the background elements slightly. I changed the contrast and brightness slightly to best match body appearance. 

Project 3: Lava Lamp

The word I decided to base my illustrator project on was "groovy." The word inspired my aesthetic choices. When I think of groovy i think of bright,neon-like colors. Therefore, I chose light green and blue for the maority of the background color. These two colors are complementary to each other,creating a visual appealing effect. For the background I used the pencil tool and the eye dropper tool alot. I then did the Blur effect to mesh the colors together nicely. The lava lamp is deisgned using a various amount of tools, such as the pen, pencil, and effect designs. I wanted to make the peace sign stand out since peace in itself is a bold statement. I constructed the sign using the pathfinder and divide tools. I used plenty of layers and sublayers to create this trippy, almost messy like vector image.

 

Here are some of the references I used:

 

EC Assignment !

Spik'D Running Co.

For my company "Spik'D Running Company" I decided to design a logo that references back to a track lane. Mostly all serious track and field athletes could recognize it resembles a track by the starting triangle and the dashed lines within the image used for sprinters. I went with this color blue because on most tracks, the triangles are actually this shade of color. I only decided to outline the shape with the blue, however, because I feel like it would be too bright if the shape was filled in entirely. The rest of the logo is black. I made the logo semi-simplistic so it has more versatility and its features would not be lost if the image had to be shrunk down to fit on various signs/products. The font I decided to use for the word "Spik'D" is bold and tough- which most track athletes are. It is not overly masculine though, so females won't be turned off. The "running company" underneath "Spik'D" is italicized and smaller because I'm hoping people will become familiar with just saying "Spik'D" and think about running. I put these words in the same blue I used for the triangle and actually made the lines within dashed. Another fun fact about the company in general is that the big D in the word "Spik'D" actually refers to me-in that many of my friends call me by Dee.


Below is my progress with the logo. I didn't feel like this design was up to par or represented a track well. The red color also was too vibrant up against the black in my opinion.

This is another track reference I used for designing my logo.

Reference for Logo

This is one of the references I'm using for my logo. Working on really trying to make the logo look like a track lane, in the simplest way.