"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