With my contact sheet, I was aiming to create a clean, appealing sheet that would be easy to look at and understand. When picking out the photos I would use, I tried to stick with photos that had similar color schemes so that the contact sheet as a whole would be visually appealing to look at. I also tried to pick a range of photos – landscapes, animals, buildings – so that I had a little bit of everything represented.
I think the most challenging part of this assignment was keeping everything organized. As a design major, I am pretty familiar with Photoshop so I was able to do most of the edits fairly easily. However, making sure that I had each image completed and linked properly into the file took a little bit of time. The only problem that I encountered was figuring out how to place the edited photos in the contact sheet so that the text wasn’t obscured. I solved this by moving all of the images up slightly so that they were still mostly in their box but the text was visible.
I enjoyed playing with all the different images and seeing what happened with the edits. I have never used the filters in Photoshops before, so it was really fun to play around with those and see what each one did to the image.
I am proud that I was able to do this assignment fairly easily. Since I am a graphic design major, I am expected to be able to use the Adobe programs easily, but sometimes it’s the small things that slip through the cracks. It was interesting to go back to the basics and see that I did know how to do them.
If I had more time I may have picked better quality pictures, but otherwise I am happy with how this turned out. Because I have Photoshop on my computer, I had a lot more time to work on this project than the other people in the class.
Bailee Maston 