This assignment was based on color, when I came across this photo It reminded me of a per adoption because the dog looked so scraggly. I wanted to bring out the adventure in adopting a dog by creating a surreal landscape for people to explore. I inverted the colors and pulled the colors out that I wanted to make the trees and leaves a purple color. I put a layer mask on the dog and the leave as I wanted them to stand apart from the background and be a central focus. The colors that I used for the text and accent were all pulled from the image itself, the yellow was taken from the leaf the blue from the rocks and the purple from the leaves. I put a drop shadow on the text to help the text come to life and be legible in the foliage area. I tried to make the dog the central focus by repeating colors in opposing corners, I had the yellow text on either side and the blue text with the blue rocks to help encircle the dog. I aligned each of the text so that there was a consistent feel to the words.
Skills: Hue/saturation, channel mixer, layer mask, color balance, drop shadow effect, sharpen.