#2. Question: Does the photo end where you have feathered the top of the plant? I bet is does, and it seems to be a pretty awkward ending into that white space. Could you use a feathered oval shape rather than a rectangle? Maybe using a oval vignette would make more sense, so we would be seeing all of the photo possible in an oval… a less abrupt end that we see currently.I couldn't use a real oval, because it would cut off stuff I need to keep, but I cobbled together an odd-shaped feathered mask. Still looks like the plant has a buzz cut, only rounded instead of right-angled. What do you think, improvement or no?
I wonder if the word “SPRING” could actually sit on the bottom of his portrait, so we don’t see (another) cut off image on the page. Make the bottom of his silhouette make sense on the page… another place to use that would be lower right on the page, so the bleed takes care of the visual abrupt picture end.If the bottom of "Spring" lines up with the bottom of the portrait, the drop shadow under "RING" sits in the white space and looks detached from the letters. The portrait can't go at the bottom, because the client will be printing in-house, so there is no bleed. I've been making myself crazy trying to avoid as much of the tacky white margin as I could and pretend that what's left of it is there on purpose.
Any other ideas?
Thanks, Coni.
It IS better. Here's another idea for the top of the feathered plant... put another element there. Can you place a flower bud in that white space and allow it to also sit under B in Breakfast? Anything that could sit is that space would allow us to imagine that the top of the plant simply disappears beneath it. Make a composite.
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