Viscom CM 235

The big question is whether this poster is real or a fake.

The sherrif's badge logo for MARC on the poster doesn't match the the home page.

How is this poster and editorial?

Photo Editor is available, it just might not be currently installed. Get out your Office CD and follow the instructions on the link above. MicroSoft Office includes it but it may only be installed as part of a Customized Installation. Basically, you install it by putting the CD in and choosing re-install and selecting customed. Follow the instructions and things should work out well.

Here's what it will do:


1. Original Photo


2. Water Color Effect


3. Thick Edge Effect



4. Multiple Effects

There are many other options, and alterations can be combined as you can see in #4. This was changed to a Negative, then Posterized and ulimately converted to Water Color.

I highly recommend you install it.

Select two of these images.

As separate items/pages, add a title, a caption, and a description that establishes some editorial control over the images. Topics to consider may include time period, comedy, tradgedy, historical, tabloid press, text book, propaganda, advertising, etc.

Use a maximum of two fonts, one serif, and one either sans-serif or decorative, but one typeface should be used as two different weights, Bold, Medium, Light, Condensed, etc.

Make an editorial point with the type. Capture a tone and lead the viewer to your point of view. Resize images to your choice. Color is welcome.

Use Drawplus only for this exerecise. Save the image as a maxiumum size 480x640 pixel size jpg to your image-hosting site and post them here as one entry.

Insignia	Clarendon Medium	Poetica	Gil Sans
Clarendon Medium	Poetica	Helvetica Neue Med. Ext.	Insignia

Discuss.


Excellent






Lame



Too Industrial, Monochromatic



Too Complicated for general Printing


Cliche



Amateurish



One Trick Pony



Unfinished

Boston Olympics Candidate City Poster

Your choices:

- Year
- Summer / Winter
- Artistic movement to emulate
- Logo, simplified representative imagery native to Boston, no photos may be used.
- Type for logo

Constraints
- Boston
- Olympic rings
- color specification
Blue: pms 3005c
Yellow: pms 137C
Black: pms 426c
Green: pms 355c
Red: PMS 192C
White is the signature color of the Olympics and must feature prominantly in all artwork.

- Typeface:
Select one family, with three weights. Light, Medium, and Bold. Must be clear, distinct and readily available.

Poster must have
- Year
- City
- Logo


Logo must have:
Olympic rings
Boston Logo
"Boston"
year
"Candidate City"


This project will combine a few items.

Historic Artistic movements
History of Type
Type must match the era you choose.

http://www.southyorkshire.nhs.uk/london2012/resources/LDN2012%20Brand%20Guidelines.pdf

This link will take you to a good sized collection of bids from various cities competing to host the Olympics. Cities do not lose a bid on the logo design, though some should have.

I do NOT expect to see any of these as your personal design.





Cinci

This is an 8 step example for specifying brand name color.

This assumes you have down-loaded and opened DrawPlus 4.0 from Serif, and Colorpic, and opened up the Flagship Flags color swatch site. If not, please do it now.

At this point you should have typed in some text in Drawplus. It operates as most windows programs do and the 'Text" entry tool is the letter "A".


1. Select the desired text.


2. Navigate to the Flagship Flags site and select a specific color.


3. Open Colorpic and mouse-over the desired color. Write down the decimal values of the color, circled in red. At this point you can minimize Colorpic, it can be a bit distracting due to its dynamic nature.


4. Go back to DrawPlus, and right-click on the desired text. Select the "Color Fill" option and open the control panel. Insert the 3 decimal values as per the Colorpic reference. The preview box will change colors as each value is entered. When all three are entered, the preview box will show the color you have specified. If this is correct, click "OK".


5. Your desired text should now be exactly the color you wanted.




6. Save the image as a "*.DPP" file. This is the default format for this program. This may not be useful in other programs so it will be exported in a different format in the next step. It cannot be exported until saved as "*.DPP" file.




7. Having saved as "*.DPP" file, select "Export" option from "File".



8. Name the file in top box, then select a format. I'd suggest "gif" for simple images," jpg" for medium size photos with subtle color variations, and "tif" for large files. Save the file in the format you want.




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