This was a postcard project for my Digital Imaging I class Fall 2017. We were supposed to use a sing

This was a postcard project for my Digital Imaging I class Fall 2017. We were supposed to use a single word and a caption, and do some editing with at least one of the letters (turning it into a shape, replacing it with an image, etc.) I had been watching the Lord of the Rings movies with my boyfriend, so the first thing that popped into my mind was the eye of Sauron. I did thumbnails of other ideas, but ultimately this was the one that won out.

Another requirement for the project was to use at least two layer comps (basically having two different versions or layouts of the same composition in the same file), hence the two versions here. I’m still torn about which one I like best.

Below that are the contact sheets for the project, which show you the original images I used to build the postcard. The entire project was done working non-destructively, so I used layer masks to hide parts of the images rather than deleting pixels.

This was probably my favorite project of the entire course to complete. I had such a blast working with all of the details and textures.