Pattern & Greeting Card Creation
Overview: The purpose of this exhibit is to demonstrate my ability to create patterns and utilize patterns in a design project.
Design Principles:
Position: I was careful to make sure the pattern on the front and the back of the card were aligned for a more professional look. This required moving and replicating the pattern as well as adjusting a few colors.
Contrast: I did some research on color pallets and discovered Adobe Color Themes. I liked the jewel tones and contrasting colors outlined there.
Repetition: One hexagon repeated over and over again makes an awesome honeycomb pattern!
Proximity: I started the design with larger shapes, but the relationship between the shapes at this larger size created an off balance feeling, sizing the shapes down created a better proximity among the shapes.
Photoshop Skills: To create the geometric pattern I made sure that the rulers, snap, and the layer edges and smart guides were open and on. I also made sure that I had a transparent background to start. I then created a hexagon by using the shape tool, hexagon 6 sides. Then I duplicated (holding the alt key, then clicking and dragging makes this fast and easy) the hexagon to create a small version of the overall pattern I had in mind. Using rulers I was able to set up some guides that helped me identify and crop the part of the pattern I desired to keep. I saved the pattern by going to Edit>Define Pattern.
I then created a new Photoshop document and filled the layer with a color, and then filled the layer with the honeycomb pattern I created. To change individual shapes, I locked the pixels, and then selected the shapes I wanted to change by clicking on them, having the desired color already selected. I finished by saving this pattern as a jpeg.
To create the greeting card, I followed a YouTube tutorial (found below) to help me create a template. I then added imagery and used clipping masks to trim it down to the greeting card template size. I added a text box and font with various layer styles to finish up the card. It would be simple to swap imagery and text out of this template for a variety of greeting card designs.
Credits:
Geometric pattern created by Chelsey Sharp Wilson
Font: Mexcellent
Tutorial for pattern inspiration found here.
Tutorial for greeting card inspiration found here.
Design Principles:
Position: I was careful to make sure the pattern on the front and the back of the card were aligned for a more professional look. This required moving and replicating the pattern as well as adjusting a few colors.
Contrast: I did some research on color pallets and discovered Adobe Color Themes. I liked the jewel tones and contrasting colors outlined there.
Repetition: One hexagon repeated over and over again makes an awesome honeycomb pattern!
Proximity: I started the design with larger shapes, but the relationship between the shapes at this larger size created an off balance feeling, sizing the shapes down created a better proximity among the shapes.
Photoshop Skills: To create the geometric pattern I made sure that the rulers, snap, and the layer edges and smart guides were open and on. I also made sure that I had a transparent background to start. I then created a hexagon by using the shape tool, hexagon 6 sides. Then I duplicated (holding the alt key, then clicking and dragging makes this fast and easy) the hexagon to create a small version of the overall pattern I had in mind. Using rulers I was able to set up some guides that helped me identify and crop the part of the pattern I desired to keep. I saved the pattern by going to Edit>Define Pattern.
I then created a new Photoshop document and filled the layer with a color, and then filled the layer with the honeycomb pattern I created. To change individual shapes, I locked the pixels, and then selected the shapes I wanted to change by clicking on them, having the desired color already selected. I finished by saving this pattern as a jpeg.
To create the greeting card, I followed a YouTube tutorial (found below) to help me create a template. I then added imagery and used clipping masks to trim it down to the greeting card template size. I added a text box and font with various layer styles to finish up the card. It would be simple to swap imagery and text out of this template for a variety of greeting card designs.
Credits:
Geometric pattern created by Chelsey Sharp Wilson
Font: Mexcellent
Tutorial for pattern inspiration found here.
Tutorial for greeting card inspiration found here.