Design Competition Final

Here are finished designs I created:

"Conquer"

 "London 2012"

In the "Conquer" design. I changed it to a landscape orientation. I altered the positioning of the text. I decided to make the london 2012 on the bottom larger and I added a blue outerglow and changed it to overlay display.

In the "London 2012" design the only thing I changed was I added a black outerglow to the larger text to make it pop off the page.

DC Preliminary Round 2

I was able to finish the tutorial I started originally. I downloaded some water brushes to create the water fall effect. After finishing this I decided to try another tutorial, which is the 2nd design I've posted here. In photoshop,  I created a background out of the phrase. In illustrator I typed "London 2012" and copied and pasted it into photoshop as a smart object. In photoshop I selected the "London 2012," then hid it, rasterized the type layer and then cut and pasted the selection. Then I changed the layer style to "color overlay" with black. I un-hid the "London 2012." Lastly I made a new layer and changed the layer style to add an inner glow of black to make the black border.

"Conquer"

"London"



"Conquer" - Design Competition (Mod 4)

"Conquer"

I chose a design competition from GraphicCompetition.com. It is a typography competition and the theme is sports and the phrase “Its not what you win, but how you conquer it.” This competition was created by a paper brand company called Conquerer and is in the spirit of the upcoming Olympic Games.. The deadline for this competition is April 30, 2012. The grand prize is a 2 tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

So far in my design I just played around with the text. I was following a water splash tutorial, and I have not finished it yet. I used a picture I took of the Caribbean for the water. I used the lasso tool to select a small section of the water and copied and pasted it to my design. I used the erase tool to fade out the edges of the water and I changed the opacity to 60%. I duplicated this layer 3 times. I moved 2 of the duplicates to the right and left of the original and changed the opacity slightly lower than the original. The 3^rd duplicated layer I decreased the size and changed the opacity to 100% then I placed it in the middle of the other layers. On all of these layers I adjusted the levels and curves.

To the C, I applied several blending options, including bevel and emboss, gradient overlay and stroke. On a new layer I made a selection around the C, colored it black and applied a Noise Filter. I changed the blending mode to screen and decreased the opacity.

I did find some other typography tutorials that I liked so I might end up with a entirely different design.

Here is the link to the tutorial I used

Here is the link to the Competition

Kenny Chesney Live album - Final

Ok so I went back into photoshop, removed the background. Made Kenny all in color with the rest of the image in black and white. I then opened it in Illustrator. I found a tutorial on how to create a seamless background in Illustrator. I made a rectangle to fit the background. I added a radial gradient with white and dark gray. I added a second fill color of gray and applied the grain effect. I added another fill color of white. Then added a final fill color and used the 'dashed lines' swatch from the swatch library. I decided to I wanted to add texture to the font so I applied a linear gradiant with white and light gray. I added an additional fill color of light gray and applied the burlap texturizer and changed the opacity to 25%.