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The chosen subject this time is the main couple from the web show Nothing Much to Do (based on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing), Beatrice and Benedick. They have a few different couple-mushing names (you know like "Bragelina"= Brad+Angelina), but the one I prefer is Bean (Bea+Ben). So that's where the title came from if you were wondering.
This template is always a challenge and takes a lot of time. This particular time took about three hours. That included setting up the template, searching for pictures, placing and sizing the pictures, choosing quotes/words, color coordinating, cropping (which is difficult and a little time consuming since I don't have photoshop), and of course redoing a lot of it because I am picky ;)
So SETTING UP the template isn't too difficult. I just have to place all the shapes in their spots. They serve as place holders until I drop the actual pictures in their spots. So I just size and shape everything then go look for pictures (unless I already have them of course).
LOOKING FOR PICTURES is pretty easy as well. I know exactly where to find them usually if I don't already have them. In this case I planned on screenshotting some of the episodes off YouTube. The hardest part was finding the "perfect" frame that I was most satisfied with before taking a shot.
PLACING AND SIZING THE PICTURES is hard because how do you narrow down your favorites and which ones go where? Then it's kind of a pain with this particular template because of the triangles since they cut off diagonally and all the pictures are horizontal. So picture this, after much debating I decide I want a certain photo in this spot, but when I put it there, I realize half of someone's head gets cut off. So I have to search for another picture. It takes a lot of coordinating with colors, poses, scenes, etc. Like you don't want too much of the same thing in one place, right? (Unless you're doing it on purpose).
CHOOSING QUOTE/WORDS is basically the same issue as choosing pictures. I'll compile a list of a whole bunch, but then the problem arises… which ones do I use? I can't use all of them. So comes the question: Which are my favorite? Which are most relevant? Which embodies the subject the best? For example, this graphic: The couple's argument about mango skins frequently comes up, so since it's reoccurring I thought it was relevant, also it was something that kind of embodies what they're all about because mangos are one of the first thing to pop into my head when I think of them (plus it's one of my favorite things about them XP)
COLOR COORDINATING isn't too hard. I usually pick the color(s) based on the dominating color(s) in the pictures. In this case it was teal and pink.
CROPPING There's no particular moment that I do this and a lot of the time I don't do it at all because it is the biggest pain of all! Here I did it twice on the two small photos behind the quote "Team Blessed". There isn't a shape that looks like that (just normal squares/rectangles, triangles, circles, stars, even arrows), so I had to take each picture (rectangle), then place a white triangle on either side, cutting off the edges. After that, I took a picture, then took that new picture and "instant alpha"ed away all the white. Not too bad in this case, but sometimes it gets more complicated.
REDOING because once I look at it, I'll decide something might look better if I did it this way, or if it was a slightly lighter pink, or had a different picture here, or if there was a shadow behind this bit, or if the text was slightly bigger, or if I had this quote instead of this quote, and so on.
Read more about Nothing Much to Do at this link HERE
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