Background
We were given the opportunity this week to create a piece that was relevant and meaningful to us as individuals. We had been working with the Art History brush in Photoshop, and I just loved how my adaptation of a skyward shot of some autumn colored trees had come out.
Design Considerations
Contrast
- My original edited image was too saturated to allow the text to come through, so the opacity was adjusted and a pure white text was used to contrast with the busy blue and yellow toned background.
Alignment
- I decided to be playful with the alignment here to simulate the canopy of a tree for the first half of the quote, and a centered non-warped text to represent sitting under the tree.
Repetition
- The quotation credit’s color is sampled directly from one of the tree leaf colors in the image
- The white text repeats the color of the lens flare.
- Typography in the first half of the quote and the attribution are the same (Avenir)
Proximity
- The two portions of the quote are grouped closely together with the same alignment through the center of the image
Typography
- Handwritten font choice (A Little Sunshine) combined with lighter weight sans-serif (Avenir) for readability.
- Adjustments to kerning and text warp both horizontally and vertically
Software Techniques

Photoshop:
- Art History Brush Tool
- Free Transform Text
- Warp Text (Arc)
- Layer Blending Options
Credits

Original Image (Left): Credit Robert Murray at Unsplash
Typography:
- A Little Sunshine: DaFont
- Avenir: Google Fonts