In Photoshop, I created an instruction manual on how to make a fruit salad. The purpose of my How To Project is to appeal to a large audience and attract people to choose a fun, healthy snack, and I think the layout of my manual persuades just that! To begin the design of my project, I composed a big, bright green headline and liquified it slightly to capture the attention of the audience. To hopefully achieve the goal of my instruction manual, I wanted to create a basic patterned layout that is quite easy to follow and avoids confusion. For each step, I made a fairly equal shaped box, added simple, descriptive text and clearly marked the number beside the short steps. To portray the necessary supplies and instructions, I incorporated many helpful, colorful pictures by the process of manipulating and feathering to accompany each step and help explain a better understanding of its content. And, of course, I decorated much light, pleasant colors to intrigue the audience and show a sense of creativity.
In my project, there are many, different lines in the title, rectangles, texts and pictures that help define and emphasize the detail of it's layout. The biggest example of shape in my manual is the the colored, square boxes underneath the text of each step that contribute in giving a specific order to each step. Most of the images illustrating form are three-dimension pictures that make my ideas seem realistic and encouraging. The warm, vibrant colors are clearly visible on my project, which easily draws the attention of curious eyes, and the clarity of my cropped images gives a smooth, wet shiny texture to the fresh fruit. The bright, white areas around the soft edges of the of each colored, numbered box represents space that adds organization to the layout of my manual and adds interest. There is a small appearance of value in the faded shadow of my outlined headline. The persuasive type, or text I used to describe the positive, easy instructions of my project adds excitement to the overall product.
