September 2019 – Isaiah's Com 210 blog

For this final post I decided to stick with the general concept from the last design but tweak a few things to fully make this a better logo. When reading through my feedback I noticed two things. People said that the racquets in the background didn’t fit super well and that there was one piece missing like and extra photo or a text. So for this design I followed those suggestions and took the racquets away and I added a text to make this more of a real logo. I agree with the racquets not fitting well. Though they seemed cool at first and were almost like wings behind the tennis player, they did distract from the main part of this photo and that is the tennis player. They were sitting in the back and took away from the main focus. Second was the text. This assignment is about the tennis club so it should probably say tennis club if I am making a logo. The subtle font design looks almost like the texture of the court and doesn’t take away from the player, the ball, or the court itself. This makes it more natural looking rather than something added to the photo. It fits in with the image itself. Another thing that I did to the photo was make it a shade darker. The color of the court and the player benefited well with a darker shade. I also cleaned up the edges on the tennis player that I missed the first edit. I bounced around other ideas and I kept coming back to the original because it worked so well, so instead of totally changing it I decided to keep the same concept and use the feedback to my advantage. I think this design project went well and hopefully the rest of my assignments can follow suit like this one did.

I wanted to create more of a logo for this assignment. I feel like logos are a huge way that companies or blogs represent themselves and this is my attempt at that. I was influenced by the colors in the game and how they pop and so I wanted those incorporated. Also the fluent motion of a player is something I wanted to capture in this picture and I think I accomplished that. Tennis players move differently than any other athlete and I wanted this to be seen clearly This image also embodies all of the elements of tennis. For this Assignment I found three images that all together involve the sport of tennis. The court and ball representing where the game is played and the main object of the game, the racquets in the background showing the tool used in the game, and finally the player in motion showing the effort and intensity of the sport of tennis. There is of course work to do on this image, but I am proud that I had no idea how Photoshop worked a few days ago and now I have created something that I feel represents tennis well. I think I could do better with cutting the tennis player a bit more precisely, but i think he turned out well. I found all of these pictures on free image websites from the image source tab. The websites I used were Pixabay, Free images, and Pexels. All of these photos had download for free tabs and I used those to acquire the photos. I used the magnetic lasso tool for the tennis player and then layered the other two photos around him. The biggest challenge was the tennis player himself. I had to restart and retool the image before I got it just right and then the embedded photos were simple because they just slid behind him.
Links
https://pixabay.com/vectors/rackets-racquets-tennis-crossed-296813/
https://www.freeimages.com/photo/light-painting-1-1165130
https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-sport-ball-tennis-66323/
Citations
(n.d.). Green Tennis Ball on Red Floor during Sunny Day · Free Stock Photo. Retrieved from https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-sport-ball-tennis-66323/
(n.d.). Light Painting 1. Retrieved from https://www.freeimages.com/photo/light-painting-1-1165130
Free Image on Pixabay – Rackets, Racquets, Tennis, Crossed. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://pixabay.com/vectors/rackets-racquets-tennis-crossed-296813/

These pictures are a representation of the components of tennis. They show the action and the equipment used in the game. These images to a tennis player immediately light up in a tennis players head and I want these to do the same for those who see my project.

(n.d.). Tennis Racket 2. Retrieved from https://www.freeimages.com/photo/tennis-racket-2-1492104

(n.d.). Light Painting 1. Retrieved from https://www.freeimages.com/photo/light-painting-1-1165130

(n.d.). Green Tennis Ball on Red Floor during Sunny Day · Free Stock Photo. Retrieved from https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-sport-ball-tennis-66323/