Font Poem

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life…

Pablo Picasso

For my font poem I choose to have a quote from Pablo Picasso because he is one of my favorite artist. I feel his quote is strong and says a lot about the type of artist he was. I do believe that art does come from the soul of everyday life and it washes over you when you don’t even notice it. Art is a very powerful thing and it is in our everyday lives. Everything we do is art; from our body movement to how we speak. It is the soul the dust of everyday life.

The fonts that I choose for displaying this quote were Ozwald, Serif Gothic, Smaragd Lt, Olympian, Parisian, Perpetua, Prestige, Revue. This took me a lot of time to pick out each type of font because I wanted to make sure that each one was the right fit for each word. I arranged the words the way I did because I thought it look clean and classic. I didn’t want to have too much one the page, but I also added color to make the words pop. At first finding how to use color was hard. I got so confused and couldn’t figure out how to select a certain color. After playing around with all the tools I finally figure out how to put color onto the page.

I never thought I would enjoy doing this assignment. It actually was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about different kinds of fonts and how to arrange them in unique ways.

Contact Sheet

For my first line of my contact sheet, I was lucky to find a 1200dpi from fliker.com. This made it easier because I didn’t have to search very hard and I also didn’t have to change the resolution of the photo. I was quickly able to reduce the resolution to 600dpi. It was interesting to see the difference between the 600dpi and the 1200dpi. Then after making the photo 300dpi I could definitely see a change in the photo, where as the 600dpi photo hadn’t change too much. Comparing all three images next to one another was very interesting and I could see the difference in all of them.

The second line was a little bit more challenging. I found it hard to get a really good colorful picture that I liked on both websites. I had a hard time figuring out how to change the photo to Color CMYK. I also had to change the size of the photo to make sure that it wasn’t 1inch taller. I found it easier to change the photo to Color RGB because the process was the same, but just clicking on a different color format. The Duotone was fun in a way because I go to play around with the different colors, but I had a hard time finding a color that would work best with the picture. After I dragged each photo to the contact page, I made the mistake by not putting them in the right spot. I had to copy and paste each image until I got it right.

The third line was very easy. I found a great image on morguefile.com. Cropping each photo I had to be careful and to make sure that each image was the right size. The portrait and square came out great, but the landscape I had trouble with because I didn’t make it the right size. I realized the sizing wasn’t right after I thought I was done, but I fixed it and it looks great. Also all my images in the last row were slightly cut off by the margin. I had to make to frame of the contact sheet bigger to make sure that each image fits on the page.

The fourth line we had to focus on framing. I had a hard time understanding how to do it. I also, couldn’t find a great picture that was 1200 resolution. It took me most of the class to find a good picture for this line. I finally got a picture, then started to frame it, but I couldn’t figure out how to get the cropping tool up on my tool bar. I finally had to go up to tools and select it. After this I did pretty good, except for when I didn’t make all the pictures 1 height. I had to go back and redo all of them. This was frustrating, but in the end I got it to all work out.

The fifth line was focused on content of the picture. This was hard because you had to making sure that the last picture was abstract. I first started off with another picture. After realizing that it wasn’t a very good photo to use because the resolution wasn’t high enough. I had to start over and choose a different photo. This took me about 10mins to do. It’s sometimes hard to get a really good photo, and it can be frustrating. After I got the right photo it was all down hill from there.

Last but not least, the sixth line was a lot of fun to do. I had a lot of fun playing with the different tools to make to photo appear differently. My favorite one was the Dry Brush tool and then Artistic-Palette Knife. I choose an elephant photo. I thought it was interesting to see how all the different tools appeared on the elephant. This was one of my favorite things that we did on this contact sheet. Over all, really enjoyed doing this, and I thought it was a great way to introduce this course. I am really looking forward learn new things and experience this course.