Kristine
Looking up copy fitting on the internet after Rusty explained it to us in class I realized that most of the websites tell you how to do it using a computer instead of by hand. I did find a website that seemed to give good details about doing it by hand. It also talked about what to do if you have a certain space that needs to be filled with text. Basically it was just what Rusty said but without the visual parts. The website I found is http://printwiki.org/Copyfitting it is the free encyclopedia of print.
I think that the first few times that I have to do this it will take me a while and be difficult, but it looks like once you are used to doing it it won't take you very long and it will just become second nature. I am actually excited to learn all of the 'old school' ways because it lets us know how the design industry has changed over the years. I think it is good to know the old ways of doing things in case you computer crashes and you have to have something done the next day you can just do it by had. I also think that employers will also find it a good skill to know how to do even if you wont be using it much. It is also more fun and hands on then just using the computer all the time.
Kristine
These are my 10 thumbnails for my car poster. The one that I choose first, with the help of Rebecca is the bottom left picture with the golden Z, the car in front and the headline that says "show yours off". This will be an ad for a car show. Then I decided I also liked the one top right thumbnail that is basically the same but it says "LIKE NO OTHER" and it is an ad for the car its self. So I have decided that for my half size marker comp that I am going to combine the two and use the Z with the car in front and then use the headline LIKE NO OTHERS and also add another line of text explaining to the viewer what the car is, a 280z.
I found these thumbnails much harder than the chili poster ones. I think it is because we had so much creative freedom my mind was freaking out and couldn't concentrate on making thumbnails. We were allowed to come up with the idea for the post and what it would be advertising, we could use a bleed, and on top of that we were allowed to have a bleed. I think I could come up with some more, or even better ideas if I had more time to let my mind relax and think about what I could do with all the creative freedom.
Kristine
I like this thumbnail because it is simple and easy to read. The first problem I see with it is that it has a bleed. To fix this I would bring in the black to make a box , but still leave the chili outside of the box. The second problem I see is that the first thing I read is the greek lettering and the title should be the first thing read. I would make the greek lettering much smaller and the chili cook off bigger. The graphic is nice and eye catching because it is 2/3's of the poster, and the contrast between the black and white is also helpful. I would have to say that this layout is a mix between silhouette, frame, and picture-window layouts.
Kristine
This is one of my Photoshop pieces, it is suppsed to create a mood. I was trying to show love by using the photo of the hands inside of the eye and also using the bright lips in the corner.
This is my other Photoshop piece for my midterm portfolio. The top photo is a old picture that has been
damaged and the bottom is my retouched version. I used different tools in Photoshop to "undo" the damage on the original photo.
This is one of my illustrator projects that I traced using the pen tool and shapes to retrace the
sunglasses. After turning it in the first time I went back and changed some of the colors and shadows to make it closer to the actual picture.
The car is my other Illustrator project using the pen tool and shapes to retrace a photograph. I put in close to 30 hours trying to may the image look close to the photograph. I also changed the color of the car. The photograph I used was silver, but I wanted my final project to be blue.
This is my Indesign choice for my midterm portfolio, I have already posted it once on my blog, but here it is again. It is a magazine layout that I duplicated from a magazine.
