Friday, April 2, 2010
Name:
cj
URL:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/cherrygatorade/uphoria109.png?t=1270224740
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~Colour/Color [2/3]
The blue that you've used it very light, and the images that you've used as well have either been altered to a [soft light] to try and mimic the background. It would work rather well, but if the black sections of the images had been more pronounced then they would have stood more as a focal point to the graphic. Currently the darker background section of the plants draw more attention because they are darker than the overal colour scheme.
The light stamp textures that you've used look great, and add a great source of light to the overall graphic.
~Font [2/3]
The font that you've used for this is nice and very suitable for the graphic, it has the same sort of light effect as the stamp that you've used, and this looks great because it ties the stamp and the font together, creating a sort of unity within the graphic.
However, the font does not stand out, if you had (as mentioned) changed the images into a darker colour, the title font would have stood out on contrast to the darker background.
I must also find that there was no point in the addition of the characters names, as it sort of draws focus away from the title text, quotes and the credits. If it was necessary for you to add those, perhaps near the title or quotes as "Storyling by uphoria109, featuring..."
~Image Suitability [3/3]
You've chosen good images here, as the darkened sections blend together well. The images overall look good asthetically, as you've rotated the images of gaeul and chunglim to an angle, to help them tie everything together. The image of taegoon seems cut at the top of the image, and it sort of looks odd.
As mentioned before (sorry for brining it up again) but the images would have stood out more if they had retained the darkness of the images. This could be achieved by combining the layers of the four (3 images) and replicating the layer, changing it to 50% opacity and then change the setting to [burn].
~Overall layout [2/3]
Taking into account all that I have mentioned, the overall layout is quite interesting, you've used the black leaves background as a sort of classical and simple look. You haven't gone OTT with textures and the use of the stamp creates a very elegant light effect that isn't overbearing.
Total= 9/12
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Name:
cj
URL:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/cherrygatorade/valentine.png
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~Colour/Color [3/3]
It's a very interesting use of colour, as they are contrasting. It looks good in an odd interesting way. The small section of yellow in the graphic as well, add just that bit of detail that really defines the colour that you've used here. As they're all really contrasting colours and this makes the band that you've used stand out a bit more.
~Font [2/3]
You've used good font here, however the repeated use of lyrics(?) is a bit busy and distracting to say the least. If you had kept it simple and just remained with the main message it still would have looked good. The way in how you've changed the 'a' in "day", becomes an interesting detail in the graphic.
~Image Suitability [3/3]
You've used a good image here, as you've been able to alter it to change the colour of to a red/hot pink. There isn't much other detail that distracts from the image, and in doing this it also ties in with the font of the graphic.
~Overall layout [2.5/3]
There's not much to say about the layout, as its a very simple gift. You've used a good font, simple and no real use of textures to overbear it. The only put off is the repeatition of the text. Without this it would have made a very good gift. :)
Total= 10.5/12
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Name:
cj
URL:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/cherrygatorade/POSTERRR.png
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~Colour/Color [1/3]
You've used quiet a variety of colour here, they're very contrasting and fluroscent. Not only that but you've used the gold, pink,grey and white, and together it hasn't really blended in to a very appealing graphic.
The way in which you've decided to colourize most of the boys in the graphic, just doesn't add at all to the appeal of them as well. They do stand out but not in the way that is appealing. If you had chosen an image that had them all as a group, you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble in colourizing them, or adding texture to them.
The images of the girls as well, I've pointed out in the section (image suitability) that the images are different, so the tones that originally appear in the images are different as well. So adding them all together without appearing to alter their tones and colours is a difficult task.
~Font [1/3]
You've used an interesting selection of fonts, from the dotted fonts, simple times new roman font, bold fonts, decorative fonts. On any other graphic, it would have appeared suitable for a scrapbook effect, however you've added just a large array of fonts, with different texts. The added font sections under the 'they're going to hunt you down', and on the far right just doesn't suit the graphic.
The addition of the characters names doesn't help with the graphic either, as it just adds to the confusion. Especially with the girls in the picture frame because there isn't enough space to be adding their names there. The title of "Seattle" also, is just a random addition. And because it is of such a different, decorative text, it draws the attention more to it than the title.
~Image Suitability [1/3]
I'm assuming that the boys characters are all from the same group, perhaps if you had chosen an image that was fun and cute that had all of them in it, it would have been easier to work with. In seperating them, you've just the made the job harder for yourself, because you have to try and make them all connect on a level (thus the colourization that you've done- which doesn't work out).
The images of the girls that you have here, don't have any texture or special effects on them, but as you can see they are different. You've kept the full image for Jiyeon, and the rest you've cropped. If you had decided to crop all of them, then that would have been more suitable, but Jiyeons image was chosen that it would have been more difficult to crop. So instead leaving them all to their full image would have been better as well, but without knowing the original background, I can't assume that this would have achieved a better result.
They are also not the same colour, as you can see that miyong does seem to be a bit more orange/yellow tones in the image. If you had decided to colourize all the images or to at least alter the effect on them [soft light, hard light etc] they would have in some way become the same.
~Overall layout [1/3]
It is very busy, it seems like you've just added a variety of colours, images and textures together, it just becomes a very messy collage. With working with so many different type of characters, you should try and collate them together, so that they don't pose such a difficulty to work with.
Try and look around other sites at designers that do scrapbooking as their main style, and see how they have been able to use a large amount of characters in a way that it does create a suitable graphic for it.
Total= 4/12
Serenity | 7:56 PM
