Album Art

Duets by Tony Bennett

 Album Cover

Booklet Centerfold

This album's cover design is a mosaic of Tony Bennet's face made up of small circle pictures of the artists he sang duets with.  I find this a genius tie-in to the title of the album. 

Chopin and Champagne by Various Artists

Album Cover

Album 

Chopin is timeless but as I was going through our libraries collection of classical music this cover stood out.  Its romantic theme is brought out in the artwork found on the cover, its many uses of color and french impressions give you a sense of Chopin himself living in Paris.

This Side by NickelCreek

Album Cover

Album Back

The beautiful and straightforward cover depicts a young girl covering her mouth with an embarrassed look on her face.  The bright colors and storybook feel gives the feeling of a young band exploring more adult content in their music.

Hudson Valley Inn Final

Logos:

I have created a logo theme using the same font and color scheme to have a consistent feel.  The hotel logo has a scene of the mountains without locking the 3-week leaf peaking time-frame into the business branding.  Jacques carries on the color and font theme keeping the upscale feel without making the logo feel cheapened by too many illustrations.  The bar logo has barware

creating the letter A in its white space.





Business Cards

I again kept the same color theme and carried it into the color blocks in the information sections of the business card.

M2 CP Preliminary Work for Main Project

I found this very challenging because having a foliage theme doesn't seem to be a representation of what the business would be all year long.  I can understand using foliage for a seasonal marketing campaign, but for a logo that is supposed to represent a company year-round, having an image of a 3 week time period doesn't seem to be efficient.  Having the company name inside one of the leaves or on the path seemed to carry out the foliage theme without it being too stylized.  Most upscale hotels and inns keep their logo professional and straightforward.

For the bar, I chose to use an illustration of the word ba with a pilsner beer glass and a martini glass clinking for the letter A.  I felt it would be abstract by using the whitespace to form the letter A.

Finally, I researched the area to find which type of restaurant would be unique. A French restaurant seemed to be missing from the choices that I saw, so I named the restaurant "Jacques."  Having an illustrated title would make the bar seem less upscale, so I kept the logo simple with the names in tall, thin letters with an ellipse around the base to symbolize it is on a tray.

M2 CP: Hand Drawn Word Illustrations

Hand Drawn Illustrations:

I had a lot of fun with this assignment, I took letters and turned them into pictures then I took words and turned them into images.  I loved how much progress I made with my transformations.  

(noun#1)

(noun #2)

(verb)

(adjective)

I chose to recreate the noun 1 illustration, I found that this was my favorite.  I used shapes and rebuilt my image on a new layer, and this turned out so well.  I love it.

I know that this isn't like most of the word illustrations that I came across, but I hope that this still fits the assignment parameters.

Wix: Portfolio Part 1

I have started the foundation for my portfolio on Wix.com.  This is how I began my process:

Learning to setup Wix, adding pictures, publishing...

Creating required pages

Choosing Color Scheme

Choosing Fonts

Selecting Pictures

I would still like to:

• Create a Logo
• Implement a Sticky Menu
• Fill in appropriate contact information.
• Revise Bio. 

https://kerstc.wixsite.com/carriemason

I created the website for our Town Library using WordPress, using Wix seems too simplified for me. In my experience having a streamlined website platform pigeon holes you creatively.  I will have to research how to create a Sticky Menu, but the template I chose, or the free Wix programming might not even allow me to have one. 

On a positive note though, Wix was easy to get a website up and running, it didn't take too long create something that is acceptable and can help a novice build self-confidence with website designing and be able to update changes.

Photo Retouch Part 2

(Before)

(After)

I chose this picture of my grandmother as a child because I have wanted to restore it for a while now.  This seems to have a lot of damaged areas to play around with for this project.  I think it turned out great.  

To continue with my first posting, these are the steps I used:

Step 2 – Levels and Curves

I used all the droppers to select areas of white, gray, and black to tone the picture correctly.  Then I made a very slight S curve. 

Step 3 – Tackle the Details

·         Specific Target Areas:

·         Bottom right corner is missing, the top left corner is blown out color wise.

·         Creases throughout

·         Spots

·         Water Damage

·         Fading

Step 4 – Crop the Edges.

My Process:

·         This process was so much fun when using the healing brush blurred the details of the trees in the background, I found it better to go in and edit the pixels individually for better control. 

·         To create the extension of the logs in the bottom right corner I used the clone tool. 

·         For the trees in the top left corner I used the clone tool to fill in a few branches to make it less blown out.

·         To take care of the creases, spots and water damage I used the healing brush.

·         To get rid of the fading I turned the picture to black and white and then used a medium orange-brown overlay.

Photo Retouch Part 1

This is a photo of my grandmother when she was a teenager.  It needs a lot of restoration, I found this the perfect picture for this project because this picture is about 100 years old. I would like to redo this photo for my father so he can have a nice image of his mother as a young girl.

Step 1 – Assess the damage

·       Tonal Corrections First!

·       Specific Target Areas:

·       Bottom right corner is missing

o   Rebuild picture

·       Creases throughout

·       Spots

·       Water Damage

·       Faded areas

·       Skin tones corrections

·       Poor Contrast

·       Reduce Vignette

·       No Metadata

Sketches: