Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Name: lust;
Your graphic (url):
http://i49.tinypic.com/2qx1dg5.jpg
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~Colour/Color: 2/3
You've used some very bright colours at the top, and the bottom is quite dark.
Maybe if you had stuck with one particular colour overall instead of altering, because this also confuses the mood of the graphic.
It really looks like you've used two different posters here and have blended it together.
The top half looks like a comedy graphic, and the bottom looks like a drama graphic.
~Font: 2/3
Easy to read title and quote. The font for the title is good, nice matching colour.
The quote is simple and easy to read as well, but the font could have been more, fancier? Just to match the title.
The credits for this graphic looks like something that you added as an afterthought.
I find placment of credits very difficult, especially with site links included in them as well.
Everyone has their own way of doing the credits, its up to you to find what works best for each graphic.
~Image Suitability: 2/3
Well chosen images of the couple, however the background with DBSK and other korean stars are a bit distracting.
Perhaps the person that requested, requested for this, but I think that as a designer if you think something looks off then you can change it.
Boycot the large cast next time, and focus on the couple instead.
And as mentioned before, it looks like two completely different moods are trying to be conveyed here.
~Overall layout: 2/3
It really seems like two different mood are here, that's the only main problem.
The images, fonts and colours used just help magnify this problem.
Result: 8/12
-****-Name: lust;
Your graphic (url):
http://i47.tinypic.com/n5k8ba.jpg
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~Colour/Color: 2/3
it's very green, and although that is my favorite colour, here it looks very washed out.
perhaps if you had left the intensity of the colour in the green, then it would have worked out much better.
~Font: 2/3
The font is a bit strange, as its black but in the middle it's suddenly become a different colour.
I did like how the colour looked like tho, maybe if you had changed the entire title into that colour, it would have been more pleasing to the eye.
The quote sometimes overlaps with the title and the font style is a bit conservative.
Perhaps if you had it in a sort of italic it would have looked better, and with some colour in it as well.
The credits are a bit out of place, and as I mentioned before, the most difficult text to place.
'ft. wangzi & guigui' is a bit unecessary isn't it? If you were to place it anywhere, probably near the title would have been good.
~Image Suitability: 2.5/3
You can't tell what mood or theme this is supposed to be.
The blending is flawless however, very well done on that front.
~Overall layout: 3/3
It's very well laid out, enough space around to not create clutter.
Placement of text is an issue, however everything else is rather well done.
Result: 9.5/12
-****-Name: lust;
Your graphic (url):
http://i48.tinypic.com/2qcmk2b.jpg
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~Colour/Color: 1.5/3
The colour is a bit varied. You seem to have a striped sort of border for the images on the right, and yet the background is of tiled hearts.
So they dont really match at all.
If you had to go with one, you should have gone with the striped one, as it's simple and a bit cleaner looking than the hearts.
However if you were requested to use hearts, some random hearts here and there would have been enough for it.
~Font: 1/3
The font for the title is grey and not very visible enough to see that it's the title. It also overlaps with the images of the couple, so placement of the title is also another issue.
Quote is very long, and long quotes are difficult to place and to work with.
Maybe if you had used the transparency tool for some of the words, and placed them a little seperatly from each other,
a better mood would have been conveyed.
~Image Suitability: 2/3
Some of the images are more cleared than the images of the couple, which I suppose would be the most important.
The image of the couple, could have been a bit lighter and a bit more defined, as at the moment is looks a bit washed out and unimportant.
So try and work on getting all the images at the same quality, or altering them so that they are mostly the same.
~Overall layout: 1.5/3
The placement of items such as the title, credits, quotes and images is a very defined skill.
Here, perhaps the requester requested too much.
Perhaps placing the images on the right, at the bottom, in a white border may have helped them stand out, but not too much as to distract.
The main image could have remained where it was, but if you had lightened or altered the quality of it to be more suibtable.
Texts such as the title, quotes and credits could have gone in the empty space on the right, then you could have taken up more space, to move quotes around and played a bit more.
The background would have been very good as the striped style, with random hearts placed somewhere near the title.
Result: 6/12
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