Skating Show Favour *reps for help*

[Alex92]

Hey so this teacher asked me to do him a favour and in return he said he would write me a good end of year report. He asked me to use my photoshop skills to create a skating leaflet front cover (the 4 skates not inline, like kiddy skates)

Reps for people that create a good graphic on a front cover. I can hardly find any on the internet. The leaflet will be photocopied so it has to be in black and white.

Thanks a lot.

Reps

PS: ive had a quick go, its a silhoutte but im not happy with it at all, im not asking for you to do it all for me, just an idea on brief graphics.

[BettaWatchOut]

so you want skates like this:

lineart...

[Alex92]

yeah those sort of skates. Heres what i have so far.

[sdb]

with it being run off on a regular copier, i'm not sure if i'd have overlapping items. they may run together and not be clear enough.

and take out the 'e' in skating

[Alex92]

yeah mum pointed out the 'e' part aswell.

I may just do a quick one. Simple silhoute skaters then the text. Afterall the text is the important part.

[sdb]

if you want the text to stand out, i'd do something else with the skater. the skater is very over powering in the picture and the text right now is only a side peice.

make the text more elaborate. better font, etc. and tone down the skater.

[Alex92]

so you think i should blur it or something? Its hard due to the lack of colours and detail i can use.

Think i should do a line drawing version? like the skate?

[sdb]

if you want the text to POP out, make it the dominant part of the page, not the skater.

use graphics as a filler, not the main focus of the page.

[sdb]

grayscale will still copy on a photocopier, so play around with the main portion darker and the decorative stuff in a lighter shade.

don't overlap things. keep in clean and clear.

[IKermit]

i'm not good with these kinds of things but hopefully this sparks some ideas.

[Alex92]

Originally Posted by IKermit

i'm not good with these kinds of things but hopefully this sparks some ideas.

ikermit i fkn love you! how do i give multiple reps?

reps on recharge though (Given too many to you lol)

its A5 portrait so ill change that around,give me something to do.

He gave me some of the previous year leaflets and they are really cheap looking and grainy, all same font (times new roman) you know.

I gotta put some more stuff on like date and where its held etc though, so il give that a go.

Thanks man, i look upto you

[IKermit]

thanks

i'll post the .psd for you to work with. it'll be easier that way moving things, changing fonts, etc.

[Alex92]

lol thanks man. I just showed mum and shes like whos that guy, and i said some guy , and she said dont give out towns, and im like .. there huge places and i dont live anywhere near there.

Then she said, 'click here for nudes?!?!?'
WHAT?!
hahhahahaha

[IKermit]

lol...the nudes trick ALWAYS works

what's give out towns mean?