For
now,
I'm just going to
think about a middle color between these two.
And
perhaps I'll go back to the exhibition poster over here.
Just as a placeholder,
I'll sample the mixture color of the red and the green.
And I think that the blue and the orange will be somewhat similar.
I don't think it's going to be exactly like this,
but it'll be somewhat similar.
So then I can fill this shape with that color.
Turn off my guides.
And right away, I'm starting to see this illusion of transparency and space illusion.
But I think I want to explore some other options here.
See what this ends up looking like.
Let me try to make this center shape more orange.
So let's make a selection of that.
Turn off the outside edges so you don't see the selection border anymore.
Actually, you know what I'm going to do?
I need to make a blend of these two colors,
the blue and the orange.
And then sample from that blend in a similar way to what I did before.
So in Photoshop, when you're making a blend,
it's a little bit different.
And I'm going to put this right down
here on the very bottom on its own layer.
I guess it's going to be in my swatch palette.
There we go.
Whoops.
That's interesting.
Okay.
So I can still use this.
I can just change the size, I believe.
There we go.
Finally.
Okay.
So now I have my gradient.
And I'm going to render this, just rasterize it.
And hopefully I'll be able to sample this
and fill that shape.
I'm going to sample right from the middle area first.
Somewhere in here.
Maybe from the blue side.
Go back to my layers.
Select that.
And I'm going to fill with this.
Okay, cool.
There it is with the blue rectangle seeming to come forward.
Turn that off.
Which is kind of nice.
Let's see what happens if I sample from a different point.
Let me save that one.
Duplicate it.
And this time I'll sample on the blend a little bit closer to the orange.
And fill this shape with that color.
Interesting.
Okay.
Very different, right?
So here's the orange overlapping the blue.
Here's the blue overlapping the orange.
So we really see that idea of colors that seem to emerge and recede based on the middle mixture.
Now I can actually go into this even now and just go in by changing the opacity
of this.
I can make minute adjustments.
That's kind of nice right there.
Really beautiful.
82% of the orange layer over the blue.
Yeah, I like that.
Okay.
Definitely looks like the
orange is in front of the blue for me.
Some of you might feel a little bit different,
but that's the way I'm reading this.
The orange center,
I'm going to do a save.
I'll keep this gradient layer just in case I want to use it later,
but it's not really a part of the poster.
If I ever want to come back to that,
I will be able to.
There's the background layer.
Okay.
Very good.
So I'm going to save this.
And now I have the image for Exhibition Poster 2,
version 1,
and the image for Exhibition Poster 1, version 1.
We can just kind of toggle
between them and see what they look like.
And you start to imagine these two images
coexisting in the same animation.
Two different sets of colors.
Both of them are complementary,
doing different things.
In this lesson, we developed an image that
demonstrates the illusion of transparency.
In the next lesson,
we'll experiment with type treatments for the Exhibition Poster.