The second project completed at Brown University, which was an exercise used in order for us to understand how color works in Photoshop and Illustrator. It also gave us an opportunity to learn about CMYK VS RGB, how color works differently with print vs. screens, and how to use them differently based on the projects we are working on.
My idea for this project was to play on the fact that color print and color media was not always something we had available. When the world was captured in black and white, there was also much controversy in terms of black and white, the black and white race that is. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. were paving the way to bridge the gap between black and white, and he looked into the future to when people of all colors could live in harmony with one another, a future where the differences of color could be appreciated.
How It Was Made: A walkthrough of the creation of this project.
First, I found an image of Martin Luther King Jr. overlooking the massive crowd during his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Interestingly, photo was originally taken in color, one of the few color photos taken of MLK before his death. In Photoshop, I manipulated the photo so that only about half the photo was in black and white, and duplicated the photo and blended them, lowering the transparency as the photos panned to the left. On the left side of the photo, the image is completely colorized, as if Martin Luther King Jr. is truly looking into the future.
And here is my finished product:
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