Michael Taylor, Final Project

I took this photo while serving my mission in northeastern Argentina. The waterfalls of Iguazú are located in a national park that is shared by the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.  Originally, I wanted to put my picture on a newspaper but realized that the picture would only look better if it were bigger and on the cover of a magazine.

The first thing that I did to my picture was working with the exposure. Using a website that was shown to us in class I was able to brighten the picture and make a few different highlights. I added to the contrast of the picture to make it look better and then I was able to fix the shadows to try and make sure that there weren’t any dark places on the picture. After that I bumped up the percentage of clarity, but not too much because I didn’t want it to look fake.

After I had touched up my picture my roommate who is a graphic design major showed me how I could turn my photo into the cover of a magazine. Using adobe I came up with a color scheme that I thought would be good to use for the font of my magazine cover. I didn’t want to take away from the beauty of my picture so I decided to use a simple color scheme that I thought would be complimentary to the colors in the photo. 

Lastly, I chose to use the font Trebuchet because I felt like it was a clean font that looked like it could be used on a magazine and not take away from the picture.    

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