My 'Image Manipulation' homework assignment for this week. Movie Quote Composite Image in 1280HD TV Format (1280 x 720, 72ppi). Here are a sample of movie quotes you could use - http://www.afi.com/100years/quotes.aspx You must include ... Quote Movie Title Year at least 2 photo layers One text layer that has Vertical Type, Warped Text or Type on a Path a layer that uses a Layer Mask or a Clipping Mask Remember any images you use must be Fair Use or Creative Commons Licensed images. Movie Quote choice: "Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting." -Man on Fire (2004) Photo stock picks: Final Design: Let me know what you think of the final design and critiques would be nice.
The text is really severe and expectable. try the lower left instead. or no text. it's just incredibly distracting. Otherwise, from what I can tell, it looks good. Maybe move the lighting off-center as well. my eye gets stuck there as well as where the text is.
Well that's the college assignment silly, the focal point is the text. It's suppose to be a Quote from any movie and you have to create a picture to go with the text and it cannot have anything to do with the movie. Plus no copyrighted images allowed. She's not expecting a picture as glorified as this and I try to take away from it with the main purpose behind the assignment and that is the Quote. Here's my final presentation, knowing that now, what changes would you make?
I'd still offset the central lightning more, maybe towards the right you should bring it. The hot gun might want to be less orange as well. The more that I look at it, the more distracting it is. Also, what about a more spread out cloud of smoke? What you have is all very condensed and makes me think of stripes on racecars.
Changes made. Except the gun barrel, I kind of like it being a secondary focal point. Thanks for the help Audience!
Hm... looks better, but the text looks like you just discovered WordArt. I might suggest making it how it used to be.
Might I make a small suggestion? A little less Sepia in the text, make it a little brighter white so that it stands out. Otherwise I like the rest.
I didn't know it looked that bad. You don't think it already stands out enough? Elaborate... 'a bit off' doesn't help me much. I was thinking about having it in the same perspective as the chief's angle but everything was going at that angle including the smoke. I wanted to throw it off a bit and help balance out the skull floor.
Yeah, this is getting graded on a huge projection, don't want it to stand out any more than it needs to.
On second thought, what if you used the same glow like the end of the gun barrel in the letters? Like a gradient tint?
The angling of the letters are just so severe that it makes it annoying to read. I'm a bit picky with these things, and if you need to warp it, alright, but don't do it this much. Tone it down if you haven't already. It doesnt make the image more dynamic, it makes me annoyed. The image needs to speak for itself without text as well as with text.
Well, yeah I feel your pain. If it was just my creation just for w/e then I would have no text on it whatsoever. The teacher is teaching photoshop and we must display what we learned. I know all there is to photoshop pretty much (been working with it since around 2001) but this week we must display the use of warped text and layered masks which I clearly did in the picture. She has my .PSD file to see the layered masks. Anyways thanks for your input Audience, I do agree with you, but making the picture look better would take away from the task at hand.
Thanks you did and I incorporated your suggestions into my final submission, even laid off the warped text some. The final version looks a lot better than the original I posted here.