Text-Tour
a.k.a. text

Your Assignment:

Utilize text and layer styles both as texture (text as image) and as a layout and design element.

This project will give you practice using the layer styles, as well as practice selecting and manipulating fonts for use in presentation and image creation.

You will turn in 3 different images:

Image #1.)

One image with a "poster presentation". This means you must have text on it in Title format such as Author/Artist/Title/Series/Cause/Etc.

You must use a "stroke" from layer styles.

Pay particular attention to how the font matches the idea of the image, photographer, style, color scheme, etc.

Image #2.)

Create a diptych, triptych, polyptych and format it in "poster presentation."

Pay close attention to which images you select to work with other images: colors, styles, sizes, formats, subjects, etc.

Image #3.)

Create a single image that utilizes text in terms of image. This means that the text shapes become part of the positive or negative space. It also means that text can be reduced to pattern or shading, or even a supporting piece of evidence.

Avoid:

Creating motivational or sappy posters such as "Believe" or anything that will make the class roll their eyes or vomit.

Don't throw the text in just to satisfy the assignment; think of how and why it works with the other imagery you are using.

Don't over-frame; you are trying to draw attention to the work, not the frame.

Don't use ridiculous fonts because they are neat-o; they are not.

Don't forget the other tools in the character/paragraph palette; they can really change the look of text.



All three images will be saved, with layers, in .psd format.

All three images will be printed.