Basketball Portrait Template

Skipper1613

I'm working on a template to put basketball portraits from the local YMCA into. I know the picture is mixed up but I didn't have a basketball portrait to insert in the template yet so I used my grandson's football portrait.

This is just a rough idea right now and still needs a lot of finishing touches.



Any C & C appreciated.

DYancy

The repetitive border of basketballs is visually distracting to me. Why not retain the two basketballs in the UL and LR corners and then use an enlargement of a basketball that is much bigger than the frame itself, faded against the background as the filler for the rest of the border?

Use a shot that really shows the stipple texture of the basketball perhaps, and then drop it into a layer between the gradient background and the UL / LR basketballs, and fade that layer 50% or less.

Just a thought.

Art Scott

I too find the border distracting and I do like DYancy's idea...or just the IL & LR baskeballs and nothing else (from an artistic point only).

Very good work.

Skipper1613

Art Scott wrote:

I too find the border distracting and I do like DYancy's idea...or just the IL & LR baskeballs and nothing else (from an artistic point only).

Very good work.

Thanks to both of you for the C & C. I thought my self that the border was too busy and that I needed something but I like the Basketball Idea. I will try something with your suggestions.

Thanks again.

Michael Shober

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