December 20, 2004
color question
I just created this for a Youth Group in Memphis. It contains their major retreat information for 2005. its 6x9 trifold (18x9 paper size) 2 colors.
However, I knew that i wanted it to have some punch to it, but i couldnt find two colors that i thought represented the piece well. So i went to black and white. I thought of using black and another color, but that one bright color stood out too much and made the whole piece look too goth, or too girly or whatever depending on the chosen color. So i tell you all this to ask if you got any bright ideas or to say..'it looks fine in b/w' ..... thanks
graham, that is the awesomest thing i have seen in a while. i do however think that it would benefit from a second color, i think it probably feels more punk right now in black and white because it feels more like a photocopy. now as for advice on adding a second color, i don't know, maybe something toned down like and nice warm green, or possibly just using two colors intead of one color and black, but still, i couldn't tell you what color to do, and that might look kinda funny with all the photos in a color, but it could look nice too, because you are already making them graphic elements instead of nice photographs, so making them some color monotone instead of black could be nice too, the scary thing to me though, is that i will assume this was all done in photoshop? or did you do some of the text in quark? either way it is definitely not going to be too fun to go back and run gradient maps over all the images to turn them to some color. But the color will definitely add the pop this needs, maybe consider not coloring the items, but running color fields behind them loosely, to stick with the more collaged feeling, either way, great hand drawing/lettering stuff, and just awesome all around job.
Posted by: Winslow Taft at December 20, 2004 09:57 AMi love this!
maybe if u want 2 color, this is jsut an idea, make the black a darkdarkdark burgundy red (almost black) and then u can make gradients of lighter burgundy off of that and then a really cool spot color gold. u can do some really cool things on this i think with 2 color. but im sure it'll be a task to figure everything out. goodluck!