There is a lot weird about my header page that most people won’t realize. This post is a very famous military recruiting poster that has been used throughout decades. Throughout history, the Marine Corps likes to uphold the culture and traditions of past and present Marines. Therefore, I thought this header image was a perfect example of what people would want to know about. This header image was made to draw people in. What do they want to know? If they are finding this recruiting poster intriguing, they must have some sort of military interest. It shows the shadow of a present Marine, they are mirroring a past Marine.
I found my source images on Creative Common’s website. There is a website dedicated for photos that are allowed to be edited and used for consumers. I had to look through over thousands of photos to find the best looking photos. We know that we are allowed to use these photos because Creative Commons is an active non-profit organization that provides free licenses for creators to use this specific content.
Lev Manovich provides a lot of great insight in his article, Inside Photoshop. The most important step that allowed me to make my recruiting poster was the layers that Manovich describes in his article. He writes, “Layers change how a designer or an illustrator thinks about images. Instead of working on a single design, with each change immediately affecting this image.”
Davison describes a single-layer bitmap image that is nothing similar to what Photoshop is capable of now. There needs to be a concept of spacial awareness and other artistic strategies to make a picture realistic. Meanwhile, when someone is using Photoshop, you can work on different layers independently and allows users an easier access to each layer. The different layer of tools allows one to customize different layers to cohesively build one image.
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