After the discussion in class today, I chose to completely revamp my first comp. The jpeg here is also a link to full sized version. Here is the link to the png version, if you are interested.
I also got a chance to speak to my dad and we went over a few points of the original and discussed what he liked and didn't about it. I took a cropping of one of his images, copied and mirrored it for the masthead with an embossed title (by the way he wanted to change it and laughed quite a bit at the new title). I think the colors work well, I chose to keep the background textured but changed the color to an orange tinted gray tone to accent the title. I'll add real text later but I am excited to get this up. I appreciate the comments in advance (as well as those in class). I can't wait to see everyone's re-designs. Thanks!
Beautiful. This design will do what it is intended to do, which is to showcase the photography. I wonder: Will you want to modify the colors of interior pages to complement different photos?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that I'll probably choose variations on gray and tint the masthead accordingly.... But I'm going to have to play with that to see the effect.
ReplyDeleteHuge improvement Carol!
ReplyDeleteI would suggest a consistent color scheme across the board. Maintaining different color buttons, headers, etc., might be difficult down the road, especially if you are trying to highlight individual images.