{"id":353,"date":"2012-06-18T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=353"},"modified":"2012-06-18T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:23:17","slug":"falling-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/falling-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a title=\"Camper of the Week  -- Week Three | Flickr - Photo Sharing!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marthagrace\/7183241505\/\">last week&#8217;s excitement<\/a>, I have fallen a little short of my own expectations this week. I&#8217;ve not been near minecraft, didn&#8217;t even get started on the Design Safari. I manage one Design Assignment, the creative commons one and then tried the <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/lyric-typography-poster\/\">Lyric Typography Poster.<\/a>. I saw a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/followersoftheapocalyp.se\/two-ds106-design-assignments\">great<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/classroots.org\/2012\/06\/14\/mission-ds106-lyric-typography-poster-design-assignment\/comment-page-1\/#comment-17660\">results<\/a>\u00a0(and <a href=\"http:\/\/macguffin.marthaburtis.net\/post\/25093853443\/simple-gifts\">this looks like something professional<\/a>)\u00a0for this and though it didn&#8217;t look too hard. I cranked through iTunes until I remembered one of my favourite song Judge Not, there are a few different reggae songs with this title but the one I like is by Dennis Brown:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dennis Brown - Judge Not\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8C0YmxVGkt8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The phrase I like is <em>Judge Not, for we all fall short of the glory of Jah<\/em>. I&#8217;ve taken Jah out of the quote as I am not religious. I like the idea of trying and falling short more than <em>Judge not lest you be judged<\/em> (Matt. 7:1).<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about this, googling King James font, I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.straightdope.com\/sdmb\/showthread.php?t=551940\">reference to calson,<\/a> so decided to go with Big Calson which seems to be on my mac. I was hoping to get a sort of old looking text and spent a couple of hours failing to get anything like my imagination. I did consider the old english type of font. I was also thinking for some reason about flags and decided on a flag background; red gold and green seemed obvious. Many tutorials and tests later I ended up with this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354\" title=\"fall-short\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fall-short.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis falls very short of the target: <em>Choose one of your favorite lines from a song and illustrate it using only typography. Consider how the font, color, sizes and placement of the typography can reflect or emphasize the meaning of the words. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless I have now spent a deal of time playing with photoshop and trying out various tutorials, hopefully this will help.<br \/>\nHere are a few of the tutorials I read through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/smoke-type-photoshop-10-steps\">Smoke Type in Photoshop in 10 Steps | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingmagazine.com\/2009\/03\/04\/50-stunning-photoshop-text-effect-tutorials\/\">50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials | Smashing Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biorust.com\/tutorials\/detail\/181\/en\/\">BioRUST.com :: Tutorials &gt;&gt; Grunge Rubber Stamp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hesido.com\/base.php?page=tutorials&amp;sub=wavingflag\">Make a 3D Looking Flag Tutorial by Hesido<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>So I had another go:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/judge-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-366\" title=\"judge-4\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/judge-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Again using a tutorial:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.createblog.com\/photoshop-tutorials\/1242-how-to-make-gradient-text-in-photoshop\/\">how to make gradient text in photoshop &#8211; Photoshop Tutorials &#8211; CreateBlog<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I do not think I have much natural design sense. I have enjoyed and learned from other ds10ers design assignments this week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>My week 4 flickr daily creates:<br \/>\n<p>Please specify a Flickr ID for this gallery<\/p><br \/>\nAnd a soundcloud one:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F50006960&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false&amp;color=ff7700\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s excitement, I have fallen a little short of my own expectations this week. I&#8217;ve not been near minecraft, didn&#8217;t even get started on the Design Safari. I manage one Design Assignment, the creative commons one and then tried the Lyric Typography Poster.. I saw a couple of great results\u00a0(and this looks like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/falling-short\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falling short&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[24,57],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment","tag-designassignments","tag-designassignments529"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-5H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}