Owen Parsons conducted two experiments for a magazine design project. In Experiment 1, he used selection and color correction tools to experiment with coloring different parts of a 3D model consistently. He found that color correction worked well and was simple to replicate at scale. In Experiment 2, he explored how to overlay text on an image realistically, and discovered reducing layer opacity allowed the text to stand out over the background image. He concluded a central background image with wrapped text worked well for his page design style.

1. Experiments
Owen Parsons

2. Experiment 1

3. Process
• I used the polygonal selection tool to outline each
individual part of the model and colour correction to
experiment with which colours looked the best,
before writing down the exact specifications of the
colours and repeating them for all of the sections
that I wanted to be the same shade

4. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
– Colour correction on statues looks very good in my opinion
and it is fairly simple, if time consuming, to replicate,
which usually turns out good quality products. I intent to
use this at several points in the magazine.

5. Experiment 2

6. Process
• This was an experiment to see how a colour
corrected image could fit onto a page realistically,
which ended up being more difficult than I thought,
as originally there was no way to make the text stand
out over the image. This was until I discovered how
to reduce the opacity of any layer, which allowed me
to create the design I wanted

7. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you
include in your final product?
– I very much like the simple first design here and think that
a central background image works well for this page design
and will allow me to create my own style. Obviously the
text would be wrapped around other images for the actual
page.