I decided to create a background image to my website for this project. The images I used for this project ended up being two images I had taken screenshots of originally as well as on I took during a play through.
The design I went for was the 1280 x 426 pixels but scaled up to 1980 x 660 as a widescreen poster. This fits my topic because I used screenshots of the game Destiny 2 while I played it. The process I went through to design the poster was first to cut out my characters from the game screenshots since I knew I’d be using them in the poster at some point. I decided to lay the characters out onto the blank 1980 x 660 blank poster and set them up as an asymmetrical design, laying the characters towards the borders of each side opposite of each other.
I wanted to utilize the weapon screenshots from the game CS:GO that I had originally posted in my “Pictures” blog post. I decided to try to cut them out using the pen tool but I ended up just using the AK-47 skin in the original design. I placed the cut-out of the skin in the center of the image, between the two character cut-outs.
Since I was using the poster as a background to my website, I wanted to add some welcoming text, so I did just that and wrote “welcome” in big letters. I found a cool effect called clipping where an image will appear in the text so I clipped the AK-47 skin to the text originally. later I decided to keep the theme of Destiny 2 so I swapped the image of the AK-47 with an image of my ship in Destiny 2. This is the final design I came up with:
I used the image of the ship as the background image and then copied the layer and clipped the copy to the text so it would look like the text is boxed and laid over the background image.
Some problems I came across while creating the poster was using the magic wand tool. Because the background and the characters I wanted to cut out were close in color, the use of the magic wand tool was not an option because it would select parts of the images that I did not want apart of the cut image. I had to use the pen tool (which I learned from the Photoshop assignment) to cut out the characters which ended up taking way longer than if the magic wand tool would have worked.
I was able to use the screenshots from the game ‘Destiny 2’ because the terms of service allows it as long as its not for commercial use.
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I really like your graphic design and how you used so many images. Adding the welcome was a nice touch and filled the space well. One suggestion I would make is to have the character on the right be layered behind “welcome” to make it look like it is not floating as much. Also adding stars in the background on the bottom would help to add a little more light to your graphic design.
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I like your idea for the your graphic design project with the Destiny welcome screen. I think using that particular font for the project was a great idea because it allows you to see the background of the image with only taking away from a little of the font. I really think that your image is good the way it is now because i think its simple yet complete. Your edits are done smoothly which makes the people look more realistic as they stand there.
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The creativity that came from this assignment is awesome! I really am inspired that you wanted to make your Draft Graphic Design Project into your cover photo for you entire blog. Not only did the image turn out well, you turned an assignment into something beneficial for your entire blog. There is not much I can say that could assist this post, however is there anyway you could use smaller images of the two characters you layered on your screen? They are a bit blurry as a cover photo. Also the white letters are a bit hard to read behind your title, but I figured it out almost instantly! Overall I think this post is the best one I’ve seen and I’m very impressed with your photoshop availability.
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