Program Booklet Cover

Technical Skills and Creativity

Original IdeaFor the front cover of the booklet, we have

chosen to go with the theme of paint splats, matching the idea of the ‘pitter patter’ of paint which is the theme of Pitter Painter’s branding.

We decided to do 3D paint splatters instead of the 2D flat ones to make it slightly different than the Pitter Painter paint splatter logo.

We found 3D paint splatters online such as the ones below.

However, most of them were JPEG files so they had white backgrounds, and because our plan was to have an orange background, to match the Pitter Painter color scheme we had to remove it. We did this by using the magic wand tool to easily remove the white backgrounds and used the lasso tool to take out smaller details that weren’t removed by the magic wand.

Everything around the paint splatteris selected by the magic wand so it can be deleted.

The colors of the paint splatters didn’t look the way we wanted it to so we used the Hue/Saturation tool to change the colors of the paint splatters by adjusting the hue.

We wanted to make sure the adjustments were non-destructive so instead of adjusting the actual image, we created a new adjustment layer. Also, to make sure that it would only affect one paint splatter and not all the layers below the adjustment layer, we used the clipping mask so it is only attached to that specific layer.

Right clicking the layer reveals the clipping mask option.

For the background, we made it orange to match the color of Pitter Painter’s background but we thought this was plain so we added a gradient. We added a new mask so that the original solid color layer was not affected when adding the gradient, and used the gradient tool which was on the setting ‘foreground to transparent’ with our foreground color set to black, to create the gradient. The way this worked was that on the layer masks, the black color means that there would be nothing n the layer and the gradient allowed a gradual change from orange to nothing. Because the layer underneath was white, a white line would be seen.

The third button from the left adds a new vector mask to the layer.

This was the setting of the gradient tool.

For the text, we stuck to the font Pitter Painter uses called ‘Toon Time’ so that it can be recognized as part of the Pitter Painter brand. The blue color we chose was the same color they use for their titles and most of their text. We also used the font ‘Brain Flower’ for the slogan of the exhibit and the name at the bottom left corner so all the text won’t be completely the same.

This is the final product.