Poster Assignment #2

Color Scheme 1: Square

Color Scheme 2: Shades

Color Scheme 3: Compounds

This week's assignment was to repeat last week's poster assignment with Illustrator and to now incorporate Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop ultimately allowed for more pictures to be chosen and came with more settings to change the look of the lighting and small details in photos. Again, this assignment included choosing a valid color scheme, coloring the picture of our choice, and adding text. I did this process for 3 separate posters with 3 different types of color schemes as seen above. Right away, when working on the assignment I can tell Photoshop was noticeably better for image settings. I tried to use this photo last week and the image trace tool did not work at all. But, after using Photoshop to fix the lighting and contrast, I was able to use this picture and have it work well. My favorite poster from this week was my square color scheme because I feel like the colors really pop as well as compliment the photo's contents. My least favorite poster that I made was my compounds color scheme because I feel like it looks kind of cluttered and like a lot on the eyes. It was nice learning that different Adobe tools may each come with their own benefits, and it was cool seeing this work in action with fixing my photo in photoshop and then bringing it to illustrator to trace and color it. I look forward to being able to use this knowledge for any photos I want to edit the background for in the future.