Exhibit 02

Luminosity Masking

Description. I wanted to do something to feature luminosity masking but instead of specific adjustments to a photo I wanted to see what I could do with altering colors and other effects. Initially, I found a photo of a woman's face [shown] and adjusted it with a few filter masks like a high pass. I used my luminosity action to find differing masks and quarter them with different adjustment layers with solid colors. This wasn't really working for me, so I found an image of a woman moving, masked her out and used copies of her with luminosity masks to get an effect I liked. 

Revision. Following feedback, the text was cut back to be only two fonts to avoid any distractions. Additionally, more copies of the block groups were made and scaled down to fit the space of a block they are next too, this should reinforce the repetition while not taking away from the empty space.

Contrast. I placed the woman in the forefront and to the left to make her the most prominent feature of the image. Each of the copies fall back away and at 25% less opacity each time. The white background makes a stark cut from the woman and the shapes and colors are light, even though they are pulled from her clothes, she stands out against them.

Repetition. Each color was picked from the colors of the woman's clothes, I then made a 300x300 pixel block with a 15 pixel curve on the edges colored it and copied it, changing the colors. After settling on the corner fill, I copied and flipped, with a few differences, and put it in the opposite corner. 

Alignment. I set the woman to be at roughly the inner left third of the canvas and stretched the clones back to fill the remainder of the space. Each of the boxes are equidistant from each other, the second cluster of boxes is lowered by a single boxes size and is the same distance from the edge of the canvas as the first cluster. The words "forward" and "move" are aligned to the right side of the second cluster and "confidently" is aligned to the right edge of the middle pillar of blocks. 

Proximity. I've kept the woman and the copies all fit into the left third of the image while the text all stays to the upper right side of the canvas. While the text closely reaches the woman it acts more of an eye bridge leading your focus from her to the text.

Photoshop. I started with a 1920x1080 px canvas at 72 dpi on a white background. Opening my image of the running woman, I used the select and mask feature to give me a general selection which I then refined the mask, adjusted the feather, and smoothed the mask in the sub-window. After confirming that, I reopened the adjustment window to refine brush the hair and once again confirmed the mask. I brought my masked image over to my main canvas and began trying to find a space for her. I found that before I could be happy with the placement of the woman I needed to add my background; so, I created a set of swatches pulled from the woman's clothes and added them to a color group to use. Using the shape tool I made a 300x300 px square with 15 px corner curve and colored it in with the blue; having done this, I copied the shapes within a layer group, changing the colors and slotting them into position. Now, I adjusted the position of the woman as well as making more shape copies and flipping them to the opposite corner leaving a large white channel in the middle. Happy with that I made a copy of the masked image of a woman and using my luminosity filter action found a mask I liked and used a Hue/Saturation adjustment where I repeated this process with yellow, blue, and pink colors. Each of the copies was shifted back, layered below, and opacity dropped by 25% each time. To finish I came up with a small saying, colored each word differently, changed each word's size making "forward" the strongest, "move" the weakest, and "confidently" second strongest with flare that overlaps the word above it.

Original Design.

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