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Check out my new Got Ds106? poster!

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For this 2.5 star assignment we were asked to re-create a Got Milk? ad poster to go along with Got DS106?. This was actually a lot of fun to create. The most difficult thing about the assignment was finding the best words to replace the original. For this assignment I simply found a Got DS106 ad that I wanted to replicate on Google, then took it to my Photoshop app on my phone. Once I cropped Danica out, I then placed her on a a blue wallpaper. I saved it and then took it to Aviary, my other photo editing app, which is best to use for minor things such as adding words and editing the image. Once that was complete I saved it, sent it to my computer and uploaded it to this post.

I think this assignment turned out really well and I’m excited about it! I even posted on Insta: (again I can’t embed but here is a screenshot)

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I have chosen a classic, The Great Gatsby, to recreate which is one of my favorite books. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place during the 1920’s in West Egg. West Egg is located in Long Island, New York but it’s a fictional town. This novel follows the life of character Nick who moves to the town of West Egg and is surrounded by immense wealth and socialites. His neighbor is Jay Gatsby who owns a lavish mansion and throws extravagant parties. The journey of love, secrecy, adventure, and death for Nick Carraway begins with an invitation from Gatsby. The original book cover has a bright blue background with a silhouette of a female’s eyes, eyebrows, and mouth along with abstract art.

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My version of the book cover is influenced by the film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The parties were extravagant, and I distinctly remember there being a lot of glitter or confetti. For my background, I chose an image of gold glitter found on Unsplash and uploaded it onto Canva.com. There are templates based on what you would like to create. I chose the template for an ebook (any random one) and then deleted the elements on the page. I delete these elements because I like to start fresh. 

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Next, I uploaded the photos that I wanted to use and dragged the gold background onto the page.  


 

After I was able to align the photo with the template I inserted a silhouette of the New York Skyline on the very top and bottom of the page.  

 


Later on, I added a grey square in and inserted text in the font of Libre Baskerville to complete my book cover. My color scheme is gold, black, and grey.  

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Got DS106?

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The heck with Milk. Got DS106? Design a new poster based on the Got Milk? ad campaign. Create your own from scratch or riff on one already out there. For your fun and further enjoyment download a version of the original Phoenix American font used in the campaign.

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Oh boy… did I have fun with the DS106 Daily Create tdc671. We were to make a poster for a new DS106 ad campaign, ‘got ds106?’, based on the ‘got milk?’ milk industry campaign started back in 1993. [Wikipedia article].  I created the DS106 DesignAssignment1234 to share the fun with future DS106ers. 

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Super Hero Alan Levine assuring us DS106 helps build creativity that soars.

got-milk-supermanI did a quick search of Google Images for ‘got milk?’ posters and had a plethora of great images pop up.  I was immediately drawn to the Superman poster.  Employing the Google once again I located the Phoenix American font used for the original campaign.  The link will take you to a free downloadable non-licensed version.

I deleted the original text, then copied a section of the remaining blue sky to paste and stretch to fill the empty space.  Using the newly downloaded Phoenix American font I changed a few words to customize it for our ‘got ds106?’ campaign.

Super.
That’s how milk DS106 makes you feel.
The calcium fun helps bones creativity grow strong,
so even if you’re not from Krypton  Strawberry, AZ
you can have bones of steel creativity that soars.
got milk DS106?

 I could’ve just replaced the text , but what would be the fun and challenge in that?

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Alan Levine

Photoshopping Alan (a ds106 instructor at Cogdog Blog) Levine’s head onto Superman’s body was a must, and turned out to be much simpler than I thought it would be. (These techniques are “simple” now, but it’s taken lots of practice and perseverance to learn them.) Choosing a good picture with the right composition was important.  I wanted him to be facing to the left and tilted similarly to Superman’s.  It didn’t take me but a few minutes to find a nice photo with another Google Image search, this time for Alan Levine.  Amazingly, the lighting was even a close match.  How lucky was that?

Using the quick selection tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 for the Mac, I selected and deleted everything but Alan’s head, neck and hat. (I thought the hat added another layer of giggle-able absurdity to the mashed image.) Another bit of serendipity was that Alan’s brown jacket blended well with Superman’s cape. Yippeee!  But I needed to do a little rebuilding of the top of his hat since it was cropped in the photo.  This required copying a piece of it from the top, duplicating it a couple of times, reducing the size to align these little ridges on his hat, and then erasing the outside edges of each layer to produce a rounded head effect. I merged all of the layers and used the clone tool to blend them.  His neck was a little trickier. I started with the Spot Healing Brush, then found two new tools today, Smudge and Blur. I was quite pleased with the results. As a finishing touch I used the blur tool again around the edges of his hat and face to give a more blended effect against the sky.

The DS chest plate was pretty simple too.  I used the clone tool to erase the “S”, and produce a blank yellow background in the process. Then cut out a “DS” from the DS106 logo. By adjusting the hue and saturation of the DS layer I was able to approximate the red color of the original “S”.  Resizing and transforming the layer with the skew and distortion effects was employed. And the final adjustment was to reduce the opacity just a tad.

After I uploaded the new poster to flickr I noticed that Superman’s belt also has an “S” on it.  Ooops….. Oh well… it’s not about being perfect here in DS106.  It’s about the creating, trying, learning, and giving it your best…. wherever you’re at.

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