The assignment was to design 10 cards 7″ x 4 3/8″ with two common themes, they must have red as an element, and they must focus around a holiday.
I’ll let you see if you can figure out which holiday I chose.
This post includes my revisions to my first seven cards, as well as my final 3 cards.
Eames 1 – addition of American flag on Mustang. Touched up again to add some radial blur to give more depth.
Eames 2 – Touched up by adding more texture to the background and using a drop shadow to give depth to the plate of ice-pops.
Eames 3 – I didn’t change anything on this one, I really liked the simplicity and style of the gradiant and white shadow.
Eames 4 – Touched up by adding a bit of grain and texture to the background image to make the text a little more sharp and have more “pop”.
Eames 5 – Redone with some clipping masks to try and simulate fireworks bursts. I’m not really pleased with the result, but I don’t have time to try anything else with this picture.
Eames 6 – Touched up to remove some of the extra elements and create a higher contrast.
Eames 7 – Touched up to improve the use of font on the image, much more subtle now.
Eames 8 – Used textured background and overlayed font at an angle to give the effect of old writing, added ink/feather as well.
Eames 9 – Took image of Washington Monument, removed background, added in background elements of fireworks, blurred foreground slightly to give depth.
Eames 10 – Taken from a previous assignment, used mosaic styles and color filters to stylize the picture.
