Typography Images

The most recent project that Mr. Sanderls GT class has been working on is typography. Typography is when you have an image of something and the image is filled with text. The text we are using in the image describes the person but it can be anything of your choice. The text also has different styles and its own unique thing about it. Although, there is also such thing as typography portraits, which is kinda the same as the original typography except its an image of somebody else. The text that we use for the typography portraits describe the person in the picture. Typography portraits is what we've been working on the most. So far we were using teachers and innovators to start. Then we will be doing a more advanced typography that is called "me". Also, typography can be used with images to make a lasting impact by its text. The text can make a lasting impact because the words describe the person in some way in the photo and it represents them.

Typography is a really "advanced" project. I have faced some big challenges while doing this assignment. My first biggest challenge during this project was getting the mid-tones and shadows evened. That was one of my biggest challenges because I had a different amount of mid-tones and shadows and it was really difficult to get the same amount. I tried my best to do what I could do get them even, but it didn't work out as well and I got really frustrated. This is what I did to overcome my issue.... First, I asked my friends around me and like I said its a really "advanced" project so they didn't know exactly what to do and I didn't get what they were saying, so instead I came in at recess and asked these other people that knew more about typography in the computer lab and luckly they new exactly what to do! My second biggest challenge was making it visible, you could hardly see Ms. Aki's eyes and her other features. To over come this issue I asked Mr. Sanderl what I had to to do and he helped me with it to make her face a little more visible. Last but not least, my last biggest challenge was putting the text on the wrong layer, I put the text on the actual shadow and mid-tones layer so it got messed up. To over come this issue I told Mr. Sanderl about it and he said I needed to restart, so I did. Im really glad that I have Mr. Sanderl and other advanced friends that has helped me solve my challenges because this is my first year in GT and I am new to these things.

The three examples we did was the innovator, teacher, and the "me" typography. They all have something that is different about each of them. My innovator image is different from the others because first of all its a innovator, its black and white, and I copied the text from the internet. My teacher image is different from the others because it's a picture of a teacher(Ms. Aki), this one has color and its my own text about her. Lastly, my "me" image is different from the others because its a picture of myself, it has a gradient overlay back ground, and we filled in the text a different way(shadows, dark mid-tones, and light mid-tones). My favorite typography image is the "me" portrait because in that assignment we had more freedom to customize it and also because it is very colorful and unique.