Final Exam Project

For my final exam I was given the task of taking a piece of art and making it into graphic design.  The way I decided to go about this was by using photo-manipulation.  I thought that I would take several pictures (the art) and put them together into a poster, while using many effects, to make a piece of graphic design which would convay a message to those who see it.

But first I had to get an idea.  I began by searching Photomanipulation Tutorials in Google.  I wanted to convay a school realated message, so that made it a little more difficult.  After a lot of searching, I found the following tutorial and it hit me on what I could do: Magical Book and Playground Scene.  I then thought about a library and how very few kids do their summer reading, so I thought this would be a good project to do. 

Above is my final product (it didn't come the same when I brought it into Blogger-it is blurry), I changed a few things from the orginal tutorial, but I like how it turned out, it could have been better in some areas had I had more time.  I also used some tools and effects that I had never used or had not used in a while.  For example, I had not used the burn or dodge tools in a while and I used them to create shadows and light spots on the objects in the picture.  I also used the skew tool to create shadows, too (that tool I have oftenly used before).  I also learned a new skill: lens flare.  I learned how to create a lens flare and found it very interesting and cool. However, I didn't like how it looked in my project so I ended up removing it.  All that was left was to finalize my message.  I thought of growing your imagination and other ideas along those lines.  In the end I decided on: Let your imagination run wild, read a book. Hopefully when a person reads this poster they get the feeling to read the book rather than a summary of it.  This would also be a good poster to hang in a library.