Danisa Valdez

Throughout this project, I learned the importance of how colors affect printing and how they interact with one another. I learned that grayscale is the correct term, not ‘black and white’ and I learned about the basic printing colors.

My design approach was very basic because I tried to keep the image together as much as possible. The image is of our classmate Megan and her dog. I wanted to emphasize their relationship with the word ‘loyalty’ and I did not mind cropping out scenery as long as her and her dog were still visible.

For the one color design, I did a variation of several blue’s. I chose blue because all colors have meanings, and one of the meanings of blue is loyalty. I had to play with the color a lot because the blue on the grayscale kept looking purple. I separated the area in between her and her dog and put the word loyalty in between, to show case that no matter what comes in between them, loyalty still holds them together. I did a variation of splitting them using the one tone to emphasize the aspect of loyalty and because I did not know what more to do just using one color.

For the two color design, I used the contrast of the blue to my advantage. I created many pages with regular grayscale images and put the word in blue so it can stand out. For this design, I cropped the image a lot and moved around several parts while still maintaining the word so it can stand out. Again I used blue in order to really emphasize the feeling that the color is supposed to bring out in one.

For the 4 color design I created many different variations of blue; some darker than others, some with yellow or red than others, and I used them all by pasting different backgrounds and type colors. On one of my pages I put the image in the middle and pasted loyalty several times all around it in different blues and different sizes. I also put blue as a background and the picture with opacity in front of it with the word in a corner. It taught me how to use the contrast of color. I also learned that slight variations of one color can make a significant difference in the whole design.