This poster was created by using the Line Tool to establish the text line to the rat's tail. The Text Tool was then used, using placeholder text to fill the line. "Rat City" was constructed by highlighting each letter in the text box and moving them to their respective place.
The part I had difficulty with was creating the straight rat's tail, as it didn't look similar to the original. If given more time I may have re-done it by highlighting the tail, deleting it and extending it with the Direct Selection Tool.
To compare the colour modes in our next task, we chose a colourful image and uploaded it on Photoshop, changing the images colours through Image -> Mode -> RGB, CMYK, Grayscale and Bitmap respectively. After I did this, I individually converted the images to TIF files so that they could be used in InDesign (creating small boxes in InDesign to be placed in).
The first two boxes show the difference between RBG and CMYK; it may be difficult to see in this image but the colours in the second section were less vibrant in comparison to the first. The last two boxes were converted to Grayscale, the last one being changed to Bitmap with a diamond design. I then altered the tones of the black and white by showing overall tones of yellow and red.
Our final task was emulating an Alanis Morissette poster; this was down by creating a double spread, uploading our colour image the same way in our previous task, and added text in a similar vein to the poster.
After choosing a font similar to the original, applying the text was quite technical as it involved creating and enlarging each individual letter, as shown in "Alanis", and adding little details within the spread. The stretched L was created by selecting the top half of the stem and extending it with Direct Selection Tool (pressing Shift to make it straight). The text across L was made by laying a box in front of it, adding a text box and placing two thick lines with the Line Tool.
I very much enjoyed this lesson, as I am not as acquainted with InDesign; so the fact that the end products look quite good, especially compared to the double spread poster, makes me very proud of myself. Because of this, I now know how to use certain features to create a design similar to this one. Of course I could refine my reproduction by replicating the poster's style even further, for instance by altering the text size and colour.
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