1 00:00:04,180 --> 00:00:09,900 In the last lesson, 2 00:00:10,060 --> 00:00:12,980 we developed an image that demonstrates simultaneous contrast. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:18,280 In this lesson, we'll develop another image that demonstrates the illusion of transparency. 4 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:24,140 So in this lesson, 5 00:00:24,220 --> 00:00:26,200 we're going to basically repeat 6 00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:29,100 the same things that we did in the 7 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:34,440 previous lesson, lesson three, where we created the image for the first poster. 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,180 Now we're creating the image for the second poster and in this poster we're 9 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:45,720 using an image that demonstrates the idea of the illusion of transparency and 10 00:00:45,820 --> 00:00:47,040 also spatial illusion. 11 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,200 Those two ideas using different colors. 12 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,400 I think we're going to be using orange and blue in this case just to have some difference. 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:02,840 Again, our goal ultimately with this animated poster is to create a single animated poster 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:09,040 where both of these images make three colors look like two and the illusion of transparency 15 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:14,260 can be both seen in some kind of an animated way in a loop. 16 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,620 And the typography will basically be 17 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:18,640 the same in both of these posters, 18 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,320 I'm thinking at this point. 19 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:25,680 So since I know that in poster one, 20 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:32,080 the image that we just created making three colors look like two with red and green 21 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,160 is in the upper part of the poster. 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,140 It's angled. 23 00:01:35,820 --> 00:01:39,620 I totally remember that and we can actually go back and take a quick look at that just 24 00:01:39,620 --> 00:01:40,780 to see as a reference. 25 00:01:40,940 --> 00:01:41,560 So there it is. 26 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:50,680 So I'm thinking now that I know before I talked about liking this lower left hand sketch with the yellow background, 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,240 but I think the gray background that's right above it with the 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,600 blue and the orange is going to be a better match. 29 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,020 We'll also use the same exact background, 30 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:01,860 the same exact poster size. 31 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,760 And I think actually we're going to use the same size images. 32 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,420 So the rectangles that we use will hopefully be around the same size as well. 33 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:16,860 So that'll all be coordinated in the digital animated version of this poster. 34 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,700 You know, I love the idea of the gradient down here. 35 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,580 I still love this sketch a lot with the typography going 36 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:25,720 in two different directions and it's very animated. 37 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,320 It's very festive, 38 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:29,260 has a lot of energy, 39 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:30,660 it's very dynamic. 40 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,060 But when I think about Joseph Albers, 41 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,300 I don't really think about a gradient background. 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,500 It wasn't really part of his work. 43 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:41,500 He used almost exclusively flat color or color 44 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:49,400 that appeared to be flat and not relying on any other kinds of say visual tricks in order to 45 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:51,200 create the illusion of space. 46 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,080 He was just thinking about solid colors juxtaposed against each other in different ways. 47 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:58,960 So because of that, 48 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:03,900 the gradient idea for me is not as attractive at this moment because it just 49 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,560 doesn't express the idea of Albers. 50 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,260 But you should feel free to experiment with that. 51 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:13,160 Again, this is an exhibition poster that's, 52 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,420 yes, based on the teachings of Albers, 53 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:16,960 but it is really a 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:23,140 hypothetical exhibition of work created by students in a color workshop focusing on Albers. 55 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:30,980 So if a student like yourself wanted to create a background that was a blend of two colors or 56 00:03:31,260 --> 00:03:33,320 multiple colors, you could do that as well. 57 00:03:33,460 --> 00:03:34,540 You can be very experimental. 58 00:03:35,860 --> 00:03:36,500 I'm going to take a 59 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:37,980 little bit more of a quiet approach, 60 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:41,140 a little bit more of a conservative approach to here in 61 00:03:41,140 --> 00:03:42,180 this design I made today. 62 00:03:42,220 --> 00:03:46,940 But again, you should feel much more comfortable being experimental in your own work. 63 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,400 So I'm going to work, 64 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,940 I think, with a combination of the upper 65 00:03:52,940 --> 00:03:54,400 left and the lower left. 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,180 And when I say combination, 67 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:57,740 I'll think about using a gray 68 00:03:57,940 --> 00:04:03,220 background, basically the same background that we used in poster one, this gray background, 69 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,340 and rectangles that are similarly sized to the rectangles in 70 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:12,020 exhibition poster one in different colors, 71 00:04:12,380 --> 00:04:13,360 orange and blue. 72 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:20,340 And the typography will be at the bottom in some kind of an arrangement that's perhaps similar on both posters. 73 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:23,240 Now, for the printed versions of the posters, 74 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:26,260 the typography can be in different places, 75 00:04:26,940 --> 00:04:29,420 as long as it has a similar look and feel. 76 00:04:29,980 --> 00:04:34,680 And if you think about these two printed posters as being a campaign, 77 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,660 and again, this is necessarily a part of the assignment, 78 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:39,120 but you can think of it this way, 79 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,880 two posters that are part of the same campaign, 80 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,100 where you have the same typographic information 81 00:04:46,060 --> 00:04:49,540 and two different images can be kind of an interesting idea 82 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:51,860 or a series of exhibition posters 83 00:04:51,860 --> 00:04:53,900 that are meant to promote the same exhibition. 84 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:57,140 But let's just go along with that idea. 85 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,260 So this top left poster with a gray background 86 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,220 and the bottom left poster with the yellow background, 87 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:06,340 what I like about the bottom poster is that the rectangles 88 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:11,300 that describe the idea of illusion of transparency and space illusion, 89 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,120 both of the rectangles are angled. 90 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,980 So it makes a very dynamic composition. 91 00:05:17,220 --> 00:05:18,480 In the top composition, 92 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,760 the rectangles are straight, horizontal, 93 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:22,620 related to the edges 94 00:05:22,620 --> 00:05:24,300 of the composition, so it's very stable. 95 00:05:25,220 --> 00:05:28,720 So I'm thinking maybe that there's some kind of a combination of those two ideas. 96 00:05:28,820 --> 00:05:34,700 Maybe one of the rectangles can be straight and related to the edges of the poster. 97 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,560 And the other rectangle can be angled, 98 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:42,140 as if the idea is moving from a straight, 99 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,340 horizontal and vertical rectangle, 100 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,280 and then having one other rectangle that's different from that. 101 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,780 So a sense of transformation or a difference between the two. 102 00:05:53,580 --> 00:05:54,600 That's what I'll go for. 103 00:05:54,740 --> 00:05:56,420 So really thinking about this. 104 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,560 Again, I'll just take a quick screenshot. 105 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,500 Let's do a selection of this image. 106 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,040 Actually, before I do that, 107 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,720 I'm going to go back here to Exhibition Poster 1, 108 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,340 and I'm going to save a copy of this. 109 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,500 And we'll call this Poster 2, 110 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:17,800 and also Version 1. 111 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,940 And I'll just open that one up. 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:31,680 So that's way over here on the right-hand side. 113 00:06:32,060 --> 00:06:33,300 Not to distinguish it, 114 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:34,700 just to have a difference. 115 00:06:35,140 --> 00:06:37,840 And this one, I'm just going to leave everything in place 116 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:40,760 except for these top layers that I don't need anymore. 117 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,360 And I don't need the sketch anymore. 118 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,060 What I do need is the background gray color. 119 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:48,860 Layer 2, the sketch, 120 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:51,160 the angle, I don't need that. 121 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,640 Just say don't show again. 122 00:06:55,980 --> 00:06:57,380 Keep that layer. 123 00:06:59,080 --> 00:06:59,880 Smooth this up. 124 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,200 Get rid of these layers. 125 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,060 That image that we see right here now, 126 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:10,300 that's the size of the rectangles I want to use. 127 00:07:11,380 --> 00:07:13,000 So I have the basic idea now. 128 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,620 And I think I even still have the... 129 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:15,740 Yeah, the guides are still in place. 130 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:16,060 Excellent. 131 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:17,020 So I'll keep those on. 132 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,100 And I have my gray background right there. 133 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:21,740 It's good. 134 00:07:23,140 --> 00:07:25,360 Set the white background on too, just in case. 135 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:34,080 And now I can go back to my sketches and make a selection and just copy this sketch. 136 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:36,920 Copy of that, Command-C. 137 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,320 Go back to Exhibition Poster 2. 138 00:07:41,220 --> 00:07:43,820 And I'm going to paste this in place. 139 00:07:44,060 --> 00:07:48,240 And just like I did on the other poster, 140 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,040 I'm going to enlarge the sketch so that it 141 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:52,880 fills out the frame. 142 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,860 And I'm just holding down the arrow key, 143 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,840 watching the height and the width go dramatically. 144 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,480 This keeps the proportions of the poster more or less the same. 145 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:07,820 Again this was a sketch that I made, 146 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:11,620 so my drawing may not match the actual proportions 147 00:08:11,620 --> 00:08:13,420 of A1, but I think it's pretty close. 148 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,940 In any event, it's kind of fun to see this, 149 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,320 to see how close I was. 150 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:27,600 Now if I put that layer underneath the other layer, 151 00:08:27,620 --> 00:08:31,140 I can see that the size of these rectangles is 152 00:08:31,420 --> 00:08:34,080 considerably smaller than the rectangles I'm using over here. 153 00:08:35,020 --> 00:08:37,120 I kind of want them to be the same size. 154 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,360 So I'm going to modify this sketch. 155 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:42,600 I know basically what I want it to do. 156 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:51,060 So I'm going to turn off all of these layers and now just come in with my rectangles again. 157 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:59,100 There's one there on its own layer. 158 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:00,940 Again I want each of these 159 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:01,820 to be on their own layer. 160 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:03,380 And in this case, 161 00:09:04,020 --> 00:09:05,080 just in terms of the colors, 162 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:07,720 if I look back at my sketches that I did, 163 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,220 the orange and the brown, 164 00:09:10,460 --> 00:09:12,480 the red and the blue, 165 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:13,740 these are both pretty nice. 166 00:09:14,860 --> 00:09:17,180 But I do like this idea of, 167 00:09:17,540 --> 00:09:18,640 you know, kind of going back 168 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,240 to the blue and the orange for some reason. 169 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,200 So I'm going to try that. 170 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,380 So I know what to do. 171 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,720 I can look at these sketches and I can kind of get a sense 172 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,200 of these sketches, these transparency compositions, and definitely I know what 173 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:35,140 I'm going to be doing. 174 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,260 But I'm going to use different colors. 175 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,080 Again, you can feel free to 176 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:39,640 do this too. 177 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,680 You don't have to keep the same exact colors that you made in your initial designs, 178 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:46,900 your initial color experiments. 179 00:09:47,060 --> 00:09:48,640 You can modify the colors a little bit. 180 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,560 So here I'm going to create a color. 181 00:09:56,180 --> 00:09:58,780 I'm just going to plug in some numbers. 182 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:04,420 Now I want this to be orange. 183 00:10:06,140 --> 00:10:07,600 Let's see what this looks like. 184 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:09,400 Working with CMYK. 185 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:12,740 Maybe a little bit brighter. 186 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:28,760 So same thing, I'm going to now duplicate this layer. 187 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:36,080 And move it over to the other side. 188 00:10:37,820 --> 00:10:40,840 These are separate layers, 189 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,860 so I can pretty much do whatever I want with them. 190 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,180 Now I want to create a blue that's going to fill up this rectangle. 191 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,160 So I'll keep the orange on one of the color layers. 192 00:10:52,380 --> 00:10:57,700 So let's say 50% cyan, 193 00:10:58,340 --> 00:11:00,500 25% magenta, 194 00:11:01,420 --> 00:11:03,660 0 and 0. 195 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,300 And we'll see what that looks like. 196 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:06,700 It looks like it's going to be a nice blue. 197 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,220 A soft kind of French blue. 198 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:10,760 There it is. 199 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:11,700 Yeah, nice. 200 00:11:12,060 --> 00:11:12,620 I love it. 201 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,320 I'm going to see what the background looks like and check the color of that. 202 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:23,960 Okay, so that's 1299. 203 00:11:25,180 --> 00:11:27,660 I'm going to bump this up a little bit. 204 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,220 Let's see, 2760 maybe. 205 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,080 This is very much trial and error. 206 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:37,120 A little bit cooler. 207 00:11:37,460 --> 00:11:38,180 I kind of like that. 208 00:11:39,060 --> 00:11:42,160 Let's see what happens if I make the background that color instead. 209 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:43,680 A slightly different gray. 210 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:44,580 Ah, nice. 211 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:46,140 Very nice. 212 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:47,140 Okay, much nicer. 213 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,720 Now, I know I want the same color background in both of my posters. 214 00:11:53,660 --> 00:11:55,080 So at this point, 215 00:11:55,660 --> 00:11:57,160 let me just save this. 216 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:03,100 I'm going to go back to poster exception one and modify this background 217 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:07,600 color to that same background color I just used on poster two. 218 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,460 So this should be still set. 219 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:11,160 2760 and 11. 220 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,120 Yes, okay. 221 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:18,340 Definitely changes it a little bit. 222 00:12:19,460 --> 00:12:20,300 I like that. 223 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:28,700 Now, the good thing is that it's going to be the same background colors on both of these posters here and here. 224 00:12:29,140 --> 00:12:35,400 Same background color, 225 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,240 different image colors. 226 00:12:38,980 --> 00:12:41,540 Okay, very good. 227 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:44,400 So at this point, 228 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:45,920 I can get rid of my sketches, 229 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:48,060 I think, because I kind of know what I'm going 230 00:12:48,060 --> 00:12:48,760 to be doing here. 231 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:55,620 And I'm also going to get rid of the layer I copied over from poster one. 232 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,520 I'm just dealing with these top shapes now. 233 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,320 In terms of the position, 234 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:06,960 I'm thinking that I want to have the orange layer almost right in the middle. 235 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:11,460 So I kind of know where the center is. 236 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:16,740 Let's go down to this orange layer and shift that over. 237 00:13:18,420 --> 00:13:20,340 I think that must be the center right there. 238 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:28,080 And now I'm going to take the blue and do something else with that. 239 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,000 I'm going to select it this way, 240 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,000 just move it down and see what happens when I do this. 241 00:13:36,300 --> 00:13:51,540 I remember that I'm going to be thinking about changing the middle color. 242 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,360 Again, when you're working with illusion of transparency, 243 00:13:54,660 --> 00:13:56,060 you want three colors, 244 00:13:56,780 --> 00:14:02,760 three separate shapes, three separate colors that all work together in concert to create this 245 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,840 illusion of transparency by changing the middle color, 246 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,740 either making the blue emerge 247 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:15,040 or in the orange receipt or making the orange emerge in the blue receipt. 248 00:14:16,020 --> 00:14:17,480 Pretty close to what I want. 249 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:20,380 And if I look at that relative to this, 250 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:23,140 there's a certain consistency. 251 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,780 And let's just square these up, 252 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:27,380 toggle back and forth. 253 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:36,440 So I can begin to kind of imagine these two images working together on the same poster in 254 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:41,360 some kind of a sequence with the typography doing its own thing at the bottom. 255 00:14:41,980 --> 00:14:48,040 The last thing I need to do now is create the shape that occupies the center, 256 00:14:48,140 --> 00:14:48,680 the middle color. 257 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,420 And this is Photoshop, 258 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:52,120 so I'm going to make a separate layer, 259 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,980 turn on my guides and start to 260 00:14:57,980 --> 00:14:59,840 move these guys around just a little bit. 261 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,220 I need that edge. 262 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:14,220 One last thing, I just want to check 263 00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:17,300 and make sure that this poster is, 264 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,640 that this orange color is perfectly centered. 265 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:28,060 I'll do that by just making a selection on each side on the edge of the orange. 266 00:15:30,060 --> 00:15:32,780 I'll just take this now and I move it to this side. 267 00:15:33,340 --> 00:15:34,580 Yeah, exactly the same. 268 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,940 I'm just taking this marquee selection and moving it from side to side. 269 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:42,420 And you see that the orange is in fact perfectly centered. 270 00:15:43,940 --> 00:15:45,460 That's great. 271 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,720 Okay, so now I know roughly, 272 00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:49,480 well actually exactly, 273 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:51,140 where everything needs to be. 274 00:15:52,340 --> 00:15:56,300 Getting rid of my extra guides that I don't need to see anymore. 275 00:15:57,380 --> 00:16:07,020 So now I just have the center guide and the two vertical guides that define the 276 00:16:07,020 --> 00:16:13,020 orange, the edge of the orange rectangle and the two horizontal guides that define the top and bottom of the orange rectangle. 277 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:19,320 So that's going to allow me to create the in-between shape pretty accurately now, 278 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,280 because I have two edges of that shape defined. 279 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,620 The other two edges are angled. 280 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,860 So I'm going to go over here. 281 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:30,580 I'm going to use the polygon lasso tool with no feather, 282 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:31,360 zero. 283 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,960 And I'm going to basically make that shape on its own layer. 284 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,460 So down here, 285 00:16:42,980 --> 00:16:43,920 use my guides, 286 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,640 just constrain.