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This was my original colour scheme, I changed it when my teacher made me notice the colours were very dull in comparison to that of my genre. Because of this I looked at more K-pop, J-pop and Mandopop magazine colour schemes and decided to use brighter more bold shades of the colours I had. Another factor contributing to the new boldness of my text would be a range of drop shadows which made the title stand out.
It is evident that this background did not suit the cover page and I had difficulty deciding on a bright background that would not create a clash.
During the first stages of my cover i focused on the main image, I found its placement crucial to the conventions of a music magazine. In order for the image not to look like a student magazine I needed to let the guitar dominate the image but I made the artist the focus by having my text here also just beneath her face. 
looking at my final cover compared to my previous it is clear how I used Photoshop to clean cut and trim down my artists hair and neaten the image
This was my original colour scheme, I changed it when my teacher made me notice the colours were very dull in comparison to that of my genre. Because of this I looked at more K-pop, J-pop and Mandopop magazine colour schemes and decided to use brighter more bold shades of the colours I had. Another factor contributing to the new boldness of my text would be a range of drop shadows which made the title stand out. 
It is evident that this background did not suit the cover page and I had difficulty deciding on a bright background that would not create a clash.
During the first stages of my cover i focused on the main image, I found its placement crucial to the conventions of a music magazine. In order for the image not to look like a student magazine I needed to let the guitar dominate the image but I made the artist the focus by having my text here also just beneath her face. 
looking at my final cover compared to my previous it is clear how I used Photoshop to clean cut and trim down my artists hair and neaten the image
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)
I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
ReplyDeleteWe use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)