J210 Unit 3 Name on Canvas Project

For this portion of our photo assignments in Unit 3, we were to take photos of objects to create our "name" out of them.  Each of the photos were shot individually and enhanced using PhotoShop.  Standard, consistent enhancements included adjustments for brightness and contrast, saturation, and lightness.  Cropping and image size adjustment were performed to ensure they "filled" the frame, and were a standard 5" tall for consistency, making it easier to "join" them together.

A new project was created in PhotoShop, with a canvas large enough to group all five of my pictures/ letters into it, with some spacing around everything for the background.  I simply moved the enhanced photos into the new project, changed the background to the red, flattened the layers, and saved the photo as a new, single image.

Each of the letters that I took a picture of were something related to my life.

• C -- I enjoy my video games. Always have since the days of the Atari 2600.
• H -- A valet that was my grandpa's and my dad's, passed down to me.
• R -- A library table that was my grandma's, passed onto my mom.
• I -- Dad taught me how to play chess when I was probably about 8 years old.
• S -- It's great to be a Parrothead.

And the result....