Text + Image

Text and image.

This assignment was a little different because to create it we were using new technology; and that program was "Adobe Illustrator." I started out by taking a picture i had of an elderly woman walking in the middle of an empty parking lot. I then edited it in photoshop by de-saturating it a little to give it more of a bleak/bland/bare feel to it. Also i used the clone stamp to erase a pole that was getting in the way and was distracting. In illustrator i added words by using both the area type tool and the line type tool. The "words" that i added were lyrics to a song about war; i think this added to the picture because some of the lyrics include statements on homelessness, and the woman just gives off the feeling of a homeless person, which she very well could be. The things that were the most frustrating to deal with were the clone stamp and the line type tool. The clone stamp caused problems because erasing it interfered a lot with the background which lead to much undoing and correcting because of the mistakes made with it. The other main problem was the line type tool because it was hard to draw a correct line, especially around corners, which cause a lot of undoing and frustration. overall, to be honest, i m only semi-satisfied with this work because of the quality, and how many things went wrong.