Swatchy Schemey
The Process
I was extremely excited to begin this assignment and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. However, I was a little apprehensive as I am not too familiar with InDesign, but I got the hang of things right away. First, I emailed myself the picture that I wanted to use for the assignment so I could access it easily. After this, I opened InDesign and used the default settings, but changed the measurements to inches. Once the document opened, I placed my image at the top so I could refer to it once I was doing the swatches. To start my swatches, I used the rectangle tool to the left and made a square. With this, I copied and pasted eight more squares to get them to be 9x9. I then made three swatches, using hues from the image that matched the most. From there I tinted the second column of swatches to 60% and then tinted the third column of swatches to 30%. I originally tinted them to 50% and 25%, but I thought it tinted the hues too much and made them appear almost white.
Once I was pleased with the final product of the swatches, I moved them closer together to get rid of any white space in between them. I then began working on the nameplates and used the first column of swatches for these. I used the textbox tool on the left hand side and typed my name. I found this step to be really fun, going through all of the fonts and finding one that I thought suited best, but wasn't too distracting. From there I created another textbox to put my major underneath my name. For this I wanted the text size to be smaller than my name and I chose a basic, but creative font for this. I didn't want to take the attention away from my name so I figured making the size of the text smaller and choosing a less distracting font would do the job. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment and loved the way the colors worked together to achieve the hues of the sunset.
My Inspiration
Once I began this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to use a sunset. I knew most people would probably choose this as well, but I've always had a love for sunsets and the array of colors they are made up of. I went through my pictures and found two different options of sunsets that I wanted to use. Once I had my two options, I narrowed them down by the colors they had in them and which one would suit best with this assignment.
My Swatch
My Nameplates
I was extremely excited to begin this assignment and knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. However, I was a little apprehensive as I am not too familiar with InDesign, but I got the hang of things right away. First, I emailed myself the picture that I wanted to use for the assignment so I could access it easily. After this, I opened InDesign and used the default settings, but changed the measurements to inches. Once the document opened, I placed my image at the top so I could refer to it once I was doing the swatches. To start my swatches, I used the rectangle tool to the left and made a square. With this, I copied and pasted eight more squares to get them to be 9x9. I then made three swatches, using hues from the image that matched the most. From there I tinted the second column of swatches to 60% and then tinted the third column of swatches to 30%. I originally tinted them to 50% and 25%, but I thought it tinted the hues too much and made them appear almost white.
Once I was pleased with the final product of the swatches, I moved them closer together to get rid of any white space in between them. I then began working on the nameplates and used the first column of swatches for these. I used the textbox tool on the left hand side and typed my name. I found this step to be really fun, going through all of the fonts and finding one that I thought suited best, but wasn't too distracting. From there I created another textbox to put my major underneath my name. For this I wanted the text size to be smaller than my name and I chose a basic, but creative font for this. I didn't want to take the attention away from my name so I figured making the size of the text smaller and choosing a less distracting font would do the job. Overall, I really enjoyed this assignment and loved the way the colors worked together to achieve the hues of the sunset.
My Inspiration
Once I began this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to use a sunset. I knew most people would probably choose this as well, but I've always had a love for sunsets and the array of colors they are made up of. I went through my pictures and found two different options of sunsets that I wanted to use. Once I had my two options, I narrowed them down by the colors they had in them and which one would suit best with this assignment.
My Swatch
My Nameplates
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