Exhibit 17: Biography

Revision

  • For this revision, I wanted to create more blank, breathing space for the design. I shrunk the text body, the subtitle and the title, as well as the portrait on the right. I gave the text a wider border on the left, bottom and top. The portrait has more of a "border" on the right side of the canvas as well because the portrait is smaller and has more room to breathe before the end of the canvas.

Background

  • My wife is in the nursing program and was doing research into Florence Nightingale. She gave me the idea of doing a profile of this historical figure. I also wanted to do something I haven't done before in Photoshop and creating a two-tone portrait was something that interested me so I landed on the profile on Florence Nightingale.

Process

  • First, I created the portrait by taking a photo of her and going to the Threshold option. I cleaned it up a bit with the brush tool and masked her out of the background.

  • I added a splash of contrast and color with the orange title in quotes, which was a nickname she was given during the Crimean War. I used a box to visually separate the text from the body text. It also creates a bit of a larger gap between the title and body.

  • I created a strong left alignment for all the text, so the font and size change, along with the color change, create the contrast between the title and body.

  • The opacity gradient on the painting in the background adds more visual interest and context for the middle paragraph about the Crimean War.

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