Month: September 2018

Final Graphic Design Project

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Final Draft

For my Graphic Design project I incorporated photos of myself, my favorite gym’s logo, and a background image of weights. I tried to make the photo really represent my topic in general, which is fitness. I will cover many aspects of fitness this semester, what it is, how it affects us, my personal relationship with it, and how it can benefit each and every single one of us. I decided to do a brochure photo with images that were very fitness related.

Originally, I made the background image very pronounced, making it the focus of the main image. I wanted the photo to look very dramatic and pronounced, while still giving a very athletic feel. I lowered the opacity on my photos to make them fade in the photo, so the photos of me weren’t so pronounced.

After receiving suggestions from peers and friends of mine, I heard a lot of feedback about it looking “intimidating”. Which I came to agree with, the focus of the photo was not of me, it was of weights and the Gold’s Gym logo. So I went back onto the photo and edited the shadows/highlights to make the background photo more gentle. I then proceeded to lower the opacity of the Gold’s Gym logo, to make it so it was not the focus of the image. Lastly, I edited the photos of me, creating some more shadows to them and raised the opacity so they were more of the focus of the photo. One of my friends told me that one of my photos was placed unnaturally so I lowered that too, and it looks significantly better.

I spent a large portion of my time re-watching the tutorial videos and looking up fun techniques to use on YouTube. I am grateful that we did the tutorial assignment last week because I would have had a very hard time creating this image. I obtained the photo of the weight room and the Gold’s Gym logo by looking online for free photos. The photos of me were taken by my close friend, Jarid Adams, for his app Train Centric. Please feel free to scroll down to my “Image Collection” post on my webpage to see his signature to allow me to use these photos. I’d like to take a second and thank you for reading my blog post and feel free to leave suggestive comments below. I am excited to spend this semester discussing what fitness means to me and I hope you are too! Thank you!

Graphic Design Project Draft

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Draft 2            For this project I decided to do what looked like a magazine cover for my fitness blog. I included the photo of the weights in the background to give an athletic feel, making it very easy to tell what this magazine was about. I tried to make the photo in the background very pronounced and dramatic, then used the smaller photos with a lower opacity percentage to make them fade in the main picture. It was a challenge for me to put this together. I am not the most computer tech savvy person you’ll meet, it takes me a long time to understand certain software and I had to go back and watch the videos for the tutorials we did last week. After re-watching the videos, I felt as if I used most of the techniques we were taught, then tried to add some of my own.

I obtained my photos by looking online for free photos that I could use to resemble a weight room. There I found the background, then looked for a logo of the gym I most frequently used. The Gold’s gym logo that I placed on the top left corner is something very important to me, it is the gym that I found my passion for working out. It is where I have made many friends that I will hold close to my heart for a lifetime. Then, the photos that are of my one of my friends used for his app, Train Centric. If you scroll down, you will see where I gathered his permission to use these. Thank you so much for reading! Feel free to leave comments about tips / any helpful hints to help me with this software.

The links for the two photos are listed below:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/

https://pixabay.com/en/fitness-weight-dumbbell-1882721/