Photoshop: ART 120

This is my first ever chance to learn a bit about photoshop. I feel as I have only scrapped the service, or less than scrapped if that is possible... but looking forward to learning more this winter break on my own to gear up for next term.

Factory project for ART 112

ART 118 Project #2

These are not at all the colors that were in my illustrator document: so I guess perfect example of what we were talking about in class how I need to convert from CMYK to RGB.... but I haven't quite figured out how to do that, so until then I'll just leave this one up.
This isn't really related to the process of our ART 120 projects but I thought I would end up using my blog to post images of my work from all my classes as well.

This particular project was to use type as a visual element. We had to state a design objective to explain our project to the class. My overall design objective was to use both straight lines, angels of letters and a curvalinear element to show and explore the relationship between the two figures.

I was happy with the colors that I ended up going with, they were really bright and vibrant and while using Helvetica I got a rather late 1980's feel from the whole thing.

Something I struggled with overall was where to place the type, I was going for all the obvious places that lined up with the letters. Since I was going for an overall simple design I really wanted the typography to play a larger part in the appeal of my design. I created color segments throughout the letterforms and ended up placing the type along one of the constructed shapes inside of the letter G.