Final Design

I eventually decided to change my mind and create a homage to the NFL’s 100^th season. My topic completely revolves around the world of sports and the everyday happenings of the NFL. After seeing the NFL’s new logo that depicts their great accomplishment I knew I wanted to do something similar without exactly copying their design.

I decided to use the three most important things that I could depict, the football for their sport, the faded image of Levi’s Stadium and the faded image of the 100, standing for their 100^th season as a league. I began with the largest of the images I possessed, deciding that I wanted to add more to just the football sitting there, I changed the opacity of the stadium image and layered it over the top.

I began by overlaying the American flag image (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/american-flag-usa-flag-symbol-2144392/) over the text of the “100” to commemorate the 100^th season of the NFL. I then added the image of the football laying in the field (https://www.pexels.com/photo/american-sports-4198/) and overlaid the “100” layer over it. I used the dissolve filter to the “100” to give it another personal touch. I then brought the opacity of the “100” to 35% and layered the final image of Levi’s Stadium (https://www.pexels.com/photo/football-stadium-during-night-200986/) over the football image.   

I brought the opacity of the Levi’s Stadium image to 30%. I used the opacity variation a lot as well as the paint brush to remove the image of Levi’s Stadium from the bottom of the football. The trick we used in creating the Pullman collage came in handy with layering the flag over the “100” and creating a copy of the layer. I had trouble with this step until I went back and re-watched the tutorial video on how to do it. All of the images I used had free-licenses attached to them, allowing them to be manipulated and transformed.

Some more things that I have added to my artwork include using the drop shadow effect I made the “100” stand out more and made it more of the main focus of my design. This helped to focus the image to the center of the piece so that it would be more recognizable. I added a text box to further this process and implicate the meaning of my project. I then made both the images of the football and the stadium fill to the edges of the border so that it would fill the entire area. This was done using text box and command “t” to transform the image. I held shift to move the image proportionately to the original photo.