Forum 6: Swatchy Schemey

First

After reading the instructions on black board, I began to research photos that resebled a well put together color sceam. The photo that I found really stood out to me and the vibe i was going for. I liked the different hues of pink, blue, and yellow. I saved the photo as a .jpg and went from there.

Next

I opened the InDesign program and used the default settings. However, I changed the units of measurements from picas to inches as well as added another page. I opened the photo into the document, double clicked the photo once it was in the document to resize the image. After, I did this I clicked on the rectangle tool on the left for me to draw my boxes. Once I clicked and dragged to a ruff size of a square, I clicked the selection tool, double clicked the outline of the box and set it to the size I wanted. Then, I copies and pasted until I had nine boxes. 

Selecting Colors

When selecting the colors and hues I used the Swaches tab on the left. I clicked on the little hamburger tool in the upper right of that pannel to make a custom swatch. I tried to use the the same colors as those that were I the photo. I wish there was a way that you could pull out the color that you wanted in the photo and make it into a a tile. I chose my base colors then added tints to them by clicking the hamburger button and clicking add new tint. I decreased each one by 15% then 50% and selected all colors to be in one box. 

Name Plate

I repeated almost all the steps in the previous papragraph when creating my name plate. However, when I finished creating the boxes and colors, I added text within them. It was fun getting to pick what kind of font i wanted and found it looked cool putting two fonts together in one word. When picking the different color combinations for the text and the words, it was challenging because some times the words were to light aganst the color box. After playing around with it I think it turned out pretty good.