Project 4 Montage

Description: Create a spiritual montage poster using Photoshop. I chose a that phrase from the LDS hymn book because it’s one of my favorite songs.

Process (Programs, Tools, Skills, Steps taken while designing): This project really focused on using layer masks to blend images together effectively. I started out with the background image of the ocean and clouds, with a lighthouse on the side. I didn’t like the way the lighthouse looked so I placed in a different image and blended it in. The only other picture I placed was the father holding his daughter’s hand. After all the images were formed together the way I wanted, I edited the levels, saturation, and color of the poster. I used several effects on the typography as well.

Message: God loves us and is always reaching out to us regardless of mistakes we’ve made. A father will always love his child. In a father’s eyes, we’ll always be a beautiful child. I also tried to apply some deeper symbolism to the message like Christ reaching into the water to save a drowning Simon Peter.

Audience: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, focusing on parents. More specifically, this idea was inspired because of my grandma so I designed it with her in mind as my target audience.

Top Thing Learned: The simple effect of blending images together can form a professional looking advertisement. It’s a simple principle that will be highly useful in a career field. I also learned how to change the typography to make it look more professional.

Filter / Colorization used and where it was applied: I used the selection tool to highlight the ocean and increased the color in cyan, magenta, and blue. I did the same thing to the sky but I did the opposite colors to fade out the blue and purple colors. I decreased the saturation slightly for the entire image and increased the vibrance. I sharpened the lighthouse slightly and the father’s hand.

Color scheme and color names: Originally I was planning on analogous with blue, however, the hands had enough orange in them to make it a faded complimentary color scheme. Blue and orange colors.

Title Font Name & Category: Bernhard Modern BT Italic – Hybrid of Modern and Script
Copy Font Name & Category: Baker Signet BT Roman – Oldstyle

Thumbnails of Images used:

Sources (Links to images on original websites / with title of site):

A Mormon’s Treasure – https://amormonstreasure.wordpress.com/tag/example/

Desktop Nexus – http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/905493/

Clarity with Charity – http://claritywithcharity.com/?cat=8