Photo collage of my daughter

Mitchell

Got roped into placing an "advertisement" in my daughter's yearbook. She is graduating from her school this year (8th grade) and is on the yearbook staff.

Any comments?

du8die

If you're not careful, you're going to get some business from this.

Well done. My only comment is that the canvas background seems a little too... tiled. But, I haven't seen a good canvas that doesn't. So...

Thanks,
d8

Mitchell

du8die wrote:

If you're not careful, you're going to get some business from this.

Well done. My only comment is that the canvas background seems a little too... tiled. But, I haven't seen a good canvas that doesn't. So...

Thanks,
d8

Thanks. I used the burlap texture from CS3. It does have a bit of a repetitive pattern. I toned it down in the center to try and make the text a little more legible.

As for the additional business, this is strictly a labor of love.

divamum

Honestly, you and Jeffreaux could start a modelling agency out of your own families. She's so beautiful!

Oh yeah, you were looking for input on the layout and the technique behind the images....

It's just plain lovely. The only thing one might wonder is if the lavender bg will work with the overal colour-scheme of the yearbook as such (either complementing or toning, doesn't matter as long as it doesn't actually clash). Since she's on the yearbook staff, presumably she knows whether it will work or not?

Seriously - it's fabulous - clear, attractive and very professional. What more could one ask?!

Mitchell

divamum wrote:

Honestly, you and Jeffreaux could start a modelling agency out of your own families. She's so beautiful!

Oh yeah, you were looking for input on the layout and the technique behind the images....

It's just plain lovely. The only thing one might wonder is if the lavender bg will work with the overal colour-scheme of the yearbook as such (either complementing or toning, doesn't matter as long as it doesn't actually clash). Since she's on the yearbook staff, presumably she knows whether it will work or not?

Seriously - it's fabulous - clear, attractive and very professional. What more could one ask?!

Wow, what a nice reply. Thanks.

The color was an easy one. Purple is really big with my daughter.

The advantage of her being on the yearbook staff is that I have the inside scoop. The yearbook theme is scrapbooking. I knew right then that this type of collage would work. She loved it.

Flyinggina

Absolutely wonderful!!

It is such a treat watching her grow.

Virginia

Scott_Quier

I think the only change I might make would be to dial down the burlap texture on the background. After that, I have to agree with all the above - very well conceived and executed; it does a wonderful job of telling a part of your daughter's life story. You should be happy with this result and quite proud, I would thing, of your beautiful daughter!

And, for the rest of us, this is an interesting look into your daughter's life. Up to now, I think all we've seen is the beautiful portraits you have been making in your studio.

Elaine

Wonderful!!!
I'd be curious to see what it looked like if the background color was picked from somewhere on her purple tank top. Maybe that would be too dark for the text? Anyway, it's a lovely collection and very well put together.

Mitchell

Scott_Quier wrote:

I think the only change I might make would be to dial down the burlap texture on the background. After that, I have to agree with all the above - very well conceived and executed; it does a wonderful job of telling a part of your daughter's life story. You should be happy with this result and quite proud, I would thing, of your beautiful daughter!

And, for the rest of us, this is an interesting look into your daughter's life. Up to now, I think all we've seen is the beautiful portraits you have been making in your studio.

Thanks, Scott. I'm not sure why I went with the texture. It just looked too phoney with the solid color background. The final edit has the texture at about 75% with almost all of the texture erased in the center.

Mitchell

Elaine wrote:

Wonderful!!!
I'd be curious to see what it looked like if the background color was picked from somewhere on her purple tank top. Maybe that would be too dark for the text? Anyway, it's a lovely collection and very well put together.

Great suggestion. I could have easily sampled that shirt and tied the whole color scheme together much better. Not sure why I didn't think of that.:cry

clemensphoto's

Very nice composite. I agree with your decision on using a textured background with, something I might try on my sports composites a little.clapclap

Travis

Every time I think I'm catching up, you or Jeff or Angie or Lynn or.... releases something like this! All kidding aside, I love it!

CTUphoto

Nice work...
I was the editor on the year book staff in my highschool. I wish we'd had "ads" this nice.

Good work.

-JB

Shane422

I think your collage looks perfectly themed for a High School Yearbook and your portraits always look great and so natural.

But I saw this site listed on Digg.com today which had 60 free textures and thought you might like to investigate it. I'm not sure that any are usable here, but they might help for the next collage.