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brad blyzwick's picture
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canon ad

advertisement for class assignment using contrast to sell an item.
found imagery except for printer which i extracted in photoshop from an photo i shot.

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Korteenea's picture
207 pencils

The darker, glossy areas on the printer that seem to have an orange-ish tint to them, probably because of the lighting of the room you took the photo in. I'd use the Sponge tool in PS and just desaturate some of that orange-ish tint so that it fits better with the overall appearance of the piece. As it is, it's quite obvious that the printer was taken out of a photograph. Other than that, I really like the piece. I think it's quite professional looking (not that I'd know, really... I'm just a student as well.)

brad blyzwick's picture
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thanks for your input. it helped to correct the printer color.

Abdul's picture
576 pencils

I like the concept overall.

A few things which I think you could improve on would be the type in both parts. The font used for the title doesn't bother me as much, but you could play around with the alignment of it. It just looks too plain in that one position.

The paragraph at the bottom; it looks like it's sucking up to the bottom end of the picture. How about introducing some 'white space'? Build a little more interest?

Then again, I'm only a student and don't know "owt" about advertising graphics, yet. Good luck with it!

Tigerstorm's picture
1009 pencils

Cool idea..

pokie's picture
1198 pencils

I'd move "capture the moment" up a little and to the left a little so that it isn't overlapping white. And... it looks weird that the paper coming out of the printer is bigger than the paper going into the printer???
I'd also make the paragraph font bigger and move it away from the picture more.

whitnet1's picture
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Observations Pokie... especially the one about the paper being bigger when it comes out. I agree with everything you said. As for the rest of the comments above her's I can't say that I agree.

Just one more lil thing that kinda bothered me (could be fixed by the whole little/big paper problem) is the shadow direction... just seems to me like it should be going out of the composition instead of in... ya know?

paul burd's picture
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Yes, paper size should match. Also, I think changing the orientation of the image on the printer to "portrait" (instead of landscape) would make the connection a little tighter.
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aRrAy creative's picture
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This production is classic - (which means it's good!) - However...

My thought process is in the wake of the storm, think Canon. - (side note - maybe it's Katrina blinding me but, the stormy weather seems to be overwhelming, but the use of color from the printer sets it off well.

Simply meaning how does a canon printer develop into this realm. (like I said this might be slightly jaded by a storm?)

brad blyzwick's picture
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the image is a forest that was desaturated but i do see how you could mistake it for a storm. the premise of the project was to sell a product of some sort by using contrast. Also i designed this project last year (fall 2004) semester of school.
thanks for your feedback

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