Assignment #3--Carrie Duford: Describe Me

For this assignment, I decided to combine the elements of previous assignments and build on them. This was originally a photograph I took of my husband, I used Photoshop to create the image that you see. After taking the picture, my husband and I had a brainstorming session to come up with good descriptors of him. I wanted the words to tell a quick story or give a quick overview about him--all based on the narrative theory. The descriptors that came from the brainstorming session became the typography you see in the image. I chose to use a color scheme that represented my husband. A color scheme is a series of colors (typically two to five) and analogous colors are those that are situated adjacent to one another on the color wheel. For this assignment I used the analogous colors: red-orange, orange, and yellow-orange since orange is his favorite color. The highlights in the picture are the yellow-orange color. The orange and red-orange is on a gradient from top to bottom of the shadows of the image. I used the adobe color website to choose the exact colors of orange. Then in Photoshop I translated this information in using the RGB codes to find the colors I was looking for. All in all, creating this image took over six hours and three failed attempts, but I learned valuable skills to use in the future with Photoshop. 

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