hey, my name is alex and i've been photoshoping for 4 days and was wondering if i could get some feedback from all yall about this pic, it is for an austrlian competition and the only rule is the theme has to be energy, what do you think?
the white bars steal all the attention here. i didn't notice the bar code at first or even second glance. the text seems dull for the message it's trying to convey. i didn't get much of an energy feel from this.
ditch the bar code, it's just sitting in the bottom of the corner for no apparent reason and has no relevance to energy.
the bars bunched together don't relate energy to me either. for me, energy means movement, motion, quick jots (like lightning). the green tinted streaks are the only thing that relay energy to me.
i would make the text more of a focus, maybe the center of attention. i envision some sort of text at the center of this, something with depth, maybe even make use of 3d. then a nice treatment applied to the text, maybe white crackling effects like it had just been hit by lightning. then reuse those green effects you already have. simple but effective.
this was phase 2 bringing a bit more attention to the barcode and text. I appreciate all of your opinions greatly (sense), so im gonna tone town the bars and try a lightning struck tutorial.
it was inspired by this thing i saw on ABC about how a lighning bolt when harnessed properly could power our city for 3 years (Gladstone). They projected it to come in the next ten years and becasue we are evovling into a digital world i figured what better way to portray that than with a bar code. Plus it looks cool
So any more tips? Thanks for all your help if not.
Originally posted by squidlips hey, my name is alex and i've been photoshoping for 4 days and was wondering if i could get some feedback from all yall about this pic, it is for an austrlian competition and the only rule is the theme has to be energy, what do you think?
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hehe, you entering that comp too ey! best of luck...I was going to show what I'm entering, but I dont think I should :P
oh yeah mate, its not the .com.au youthweek website, just the .com website.
Originally posted by squidlips lol, yeah, thanks for correcting me.
so come on... show us what u got, this could be interesting.
hey, just an idea, do u wanna make a joint entry as well? that would go off! get back to me asap (here or chickensmakemypantsrise@hotmail.com)
haha, not sure if I'd really want to send a mail to: chickens make my pants rise@hotmail.com! hehe j/k can you enter a joint one for the designIT section?
anyway, I think I'll go it alone though. I dont have enough time to do this. I haven't even started on my design yet. I'm working full time at the moment, but stop because I want a break before I go back to uni, so I'm stopping work after the first week of Feb, so I'll have 3 weeks or so to work on my entry. I've got an idea in my head and its something similar to this: http://chewman.plastiqueweb.com/prev...sition1024.jpg
But not sure again whether I should do an image like that one. I was tempted to do some vector stuff, but not sure :P so yeah, if you wanted me to show you what I got...I was tempted into entering that one hehe but I dont think that'd be right...I've already used that for something.