Continuing the experimentation with layout. Began by digitally resizing all of my photos to 6 x 4 inches and printing them so that I could work with them physically. As I learnt in the image manipulation task, working with my content physically makes a lot more sense than digital editing. I could probably achieve the effect that I want through the use of Photoshop, however, I feel like using a scanner/ copier adds an element of physicality and authenticity that Photoshop lacks when it comes to projects like this. I wanted to emulate the process of film being scanned, or even just handled, so I copied by photos while playing with the contrast and density. I did all of these in black and white as I want the content to be overprinted in black ink.
After copying all of the content I trimmed them down and began scanning them in. I ensured that this process was quick and that I didn't think too much into it, as I really like the slightly tilted compositions of just two images on a page.
Playing with quick page layouts by using the multiply layer blend mode to overlay by scan onto the bright pink page. This gave me my first insight as to what my images could look like printed - and I think it's successful so far. Even though the quality has been lowered (purposefully, for a more 'hand made' feel) the images still shine and are clear. I really like how some (mostly the ones of people) are really obvious, and others completely abstracted - and I think I can use this to my advantage when designing page layout further. Also, up until now I have only imagined one image per page, however, I think that having more than one and cropping them is a really interesting layout and I like how it highlights the slanted composition.
Quickly looking at overlayed transparent tip-ins.
Beginning to combine text and image. Just thinking about how the two can work together, the text is extremely decorative - perhaps it works best on a page of its own?
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