Marco Anthony
The design (BTS)
Background: With the Mountain West tournament happening this past weekend and Marco Anthony being named to the conference all-defensive team, I wanted to create a design to feature on our Statesman social media.
Contrast: The main contrast was created through the color palette. I used the white of the uniform to contrast off the darker navy blue background.
Alignment: The number (44) and his name are aligned on the top left and bottom right of the border.
Proximity: Anthony is aligned in the middle for the main image and in a box with a border, the image on the left is aligned with the top and left third lines.
Repetition: All of the colors from his uniform are repeated throughout. Also, a border was created around the middle box by repeating the state abbreviations TX-VA-UT, which was his path to get to Utah State.
Color Scheme: Navy blue, white and grey.
Font Choice: I used two fonts — his name in a spraypaint-like script and the number and state text in one of my favorite active fonts.
Photoshop: The main tools I used are listed below.
Texture layering
Type tool
Subject select, quick selection and layer masking
Black and white adjustment layer
Adobe Camera Raw
Brightness and contrast adjustment layer
Pen tool
Rectangle tool
Clipping mask
Stroke and effects
This design started by cutting out Anthony in both images using select subject, quick select and layer masking. I isolated Anthony in the main image with a layer mask and turned the background black and white. Then, I put his photo through camera raw to make the image a little more vibrant, I also adjusted him slightly with brightness and contrast adjustment layers. After that, I picked a background color, which I pulled from his uniform, and layered that with some textures I have. I settled on this one because I really liked how setting a different blending mode turned a dusty texture into almost a basketball-like texture, which I thought worked perfect for this design. I then worked on the border by creating a path with the pen tool and typing on top of that. Next came the white border, which is just a rectangle with no fill and a white stroke. Finally, I put the main image in a clipping mask of the rectangle and aligned the text and images.
Photo Credits: Wade Denniston, Utah State Athletics.
Font credits: Kanit, ExtraBold Italic; James Stroker, Regular.