I think color is my favorite of this breathtaking rainbow I saw today.
Clicking on the image will make it bigger so you can see the double bow.
There was so much contrast in the image though so I wondered how it would look as a black and white and so my results are below with a slightly different crop. You be the judge!
If you’re looking for some California native plants the nature preserve at Los Medanos College (a certified schoolyard habitat) is having a plant sale on March 27 and 28th. If you aren’t sure what you’re looking for I developed a plant ID slideshow to help you know what is what. All photographs were taken and identified by the caretakers of the center. Click the image below to visit the website. Plants range from $1 – $7.
I was asked to make a little graphic for the kiss the frog contest our honors program is putting on. I found a cute bullfrog off the creative commons search and attached a sticky note to his face. I then tried various attempts to write with my intuis 4 wacom tablet words on the sticky note. Ya can read it right????
Today I stumbled on a fun little site called wordle and the concept is simple. You just paste in a bunch of text and hit generate. After that you can choose a color scheme, pick a font and delete words you don’t like. If you don’t like what it makes you can hit randomize and change settings for an infinite number of possibilities. Below I pasted in a list from our degrees and certificates page and got the tag cloud below. I took was generated and played around in photoshop with various inverse and overlay effects to make the banner for one of our web pages. Check out wordle and have some word fun!
Ok I guess I am being sarcastic with that subject like but this was just too good not to pass along. Anyone who has done any photography will understand. http://www.bythom.com/painofphotography.htm
The purpose of design is to communicate a message and therefore I believe special effects should be used only if there is a reason to use them. This means it’s probably rare that you’ll need to create metal type but as a designer you should know the concept of how to do it even if you’ll only do it once in your career.
Above is an image of a banner I did for our college website to congratulate one of our star alumni who played in the Superbowl. To match the emblem for the Superbowl it called for some silver type.
In addition to that I needed to remind students it was time to submit their applications for graduation. Both were going to be shown on the same page so I thought the gold and silver would compliment each other and contribute to the overall message that each was trying to convey.
Below are the settings I used in Adobe Photoshop CS5 to get both the gold and silver effect. You’ll have to vary it a little depending on your type face and point size. This will just give you and idea so you know how to shape the metal to your specifications!
Type something. It doesn’t really matter the color or the type but in the case above I used Trajan and black but you can use any color. Then click on the layer style effects at the bottom of the layers palette and apply the settings for the various blending options:
The color I used here is #cfa51a and #fff6b8 for the light color
