Final Culminating Assignment – Gum Package
I used Photoshop to make the background of the gum package. I also used it to change the DPI to 150 for the barcodeand Nutrition Fact.
vectors or free stock photography. What part of your gum package did you custom design?
I custom designed the background with Photoshop. I used a simple colour of red and tried out several effects to make the background look very attractive. I wanted to make my background very different, since I didn’t want to use just a solid colour or else the design wouldn’t look very original. I used the filter, lens flare to make my background look interesting and original. Also, I used Illustrator to make the cursive letter R. I used the pen tool several times to make the ‘R’ look very elegant and very original.
Layout
Assignment #3 – Tattoo or Personal Logo
Questions & Answers
1. What does your logo/ tattoo represent?
My logo basically represents my nickname, “Geethi” that everyone usually calls me instead of my full name. Also, I have my last name “Sehgal” in my logo. I wanted to have my name as my logo because I want to represent my “creative identity” and make my logo more recognizable and easy to remember when people look at it.
2. How did you design your logo/ tattoo to represent this?
I designed my logo by having an arrow point at my name to make it look like my name is of great importance. I created my intials G.S. by using the pen tool. I just wanted to add a touch of my own creativity and make this my own design. I made the rest of my name using small letters to create that clean organized by having it in a staright line. I made some of the of the letters in capital letters and reduced the font to show my own way of writing my name. At the end, I put a star to show that this logo is important and has great value. It’s just like when you put a star beside important information or something you need to remember. I incorporated that into the logo to show the same reason.
Assignment #2- Self Portrait: Lonely Without You
Questions & Answers
a) What were you trying to express and how did you achieve this?
In this self-portrait, I was trying to express that when your lonely, your mind is not in the best moods and your face shows sorrow. These emotions are trying to display that there’s that part of our self where we feel that we cannot handle the truth something that happened in our life unexpectedly. Our mind and our heart feels that it’s not possible that what has happened, has happened. We can’t change the past, but this event causes us to feel sadness. I achieved these emotions by using shapes and dark colours to portray a more gloomy atmosphere. The colours I used were black, dark blue, and dark purple. I used twirls and the difference clouds to make the whole background seem negative. This has helped to show the emotions more clearly by using the filters and the darker colours.
b) What filters did you use and where?
I tried to use a variety of filters to make my portrait more appealing. The filters that I used are: Difference Cloud: One of the layers for the background
Twirl: Background
Wave: Background
Fresco: My Picture
c) What layer blending mode did you use and where?
The layer blending modes I used are:Lighten: Big Image of my face
Linear Dodge: Smaller images of my face
d) What special brush did you use and where?
The special brush that I used is called Watercolour 1. I used it on my face in the image to help make my face look like it’s starting to crack and break any second. I’m using that part of the image to help show that I feel like I’m breaking or already broken up when I’m alone and sad.
Assignment #1-Magazine Cover
Questions & Answers
1.What qualities of your magazine cover makes it effective?
The things that make my magazine cover effective is the choice of colour that I used to produce it. I used bright and strong colours in my texts, so that it would stand out from the blue and black background. I made sure that I used any empty spaces on the cover. But at the same time, I made sure that I didn’t it look too congested. Overall, my use of space, size, colour, and texture has made my magzine look more eye-catching, yet professional by a little touch of everything. It has that interesting appeal. That is why my magazine cover looks very effective.
2. What was the order of hierarchy you were trying to achieve for the elements on your magazine cover?The order of hierarchy I was trying to achieve was:
1) Sports Illustrated Title / My main picture
2) Geethi Sehgal: MVP of the Year
3) Top 20 / 6 Ways / JR Girls Volleyball
4) February 2008
The Original Pictures that I used:
