Sigh, it used to be an every day thing to not only do a DS106 Daily Create but blog how it was done (e.g. backtrack to 2017 on Shatnering a song).
But given tomorrow’s Reclaim Open conference session celebrating the DS06 Daily Create at noon EST on “Remix is #4Life: We We all Love the Daily Create and You Should Too” (it’s the mid day break from te blogathon sessions, this is a live stream) — its timely to get back to the roots of not only creating but splaining what yo be creating.
TDC5041 was a classic (e.g. recycled) Daily Create: #tdc5041 #ds106 #WildDS106 Make a Poster for An ‘Add a New Daily Create’ Campaign created actually by what was once a twitter account for a cow @anycow (legend):
Give it a good slogan, a better picture and make an unforgettable impression on the public with your poster.
https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5041/
A poster can be many/any style, but my association goes to the WW2 style posters, e.g. thye genre of propoganda posters. In the way they do, Daily Creates can bleed over and back from the DS106 Assignment Bank- like this one to create a DS106 Propoganda Poster I guess from the name of a student I remember was almost the second year of DS106. Lost in the shuffle, the beauty of the assignment bank was how it aggregated responses from participant blogs, but also blog posts that included a writeup of how they did it.
Looking for ideas, I reached OMG DOES IT STILL WORK? for Google images with search for open licensed results on “propoganda poster” (it works even with my typo.
Yes there are all the “Yes We Can” but one jumped out for personal reasons, second image on the second row:
It’s almost perfect. But I wanted to remove the “Enlists” and insert “ADDS A TDC”. I started in PhotoShop, but could not find a good enough font match, so what I did do was copy past all the letters needed to phrase this- the only one missing was a “C” but that was easily done by editing a “G”.
But that makes the text too wide. SO I went in deeper, and pulled the margins out, and starting copy pasting the letters to make the bottom work. What I have looks a bit messy:
But here is my one dip into AI, I use the photoshop selection using the inner parts of the image with the color on the left and right, and use the Generate Fill option to insert matching colors. I end up using this often in Photoshop for photos that maybe are not the right aspect ratio, it does a decent job of filling in backgrounds.
I deleted the red Market St address, and just added the daily create URL for adding a new TDC, just old Arial black was close enough for me.
Last was doing a little shift-select to create place behind the dog to paste in a screen shot of the Add a Daily Create screen, using the Multiple layer style and opacity at 45 to superimpose on the background flames. Learning to Mask in photoshop was and is a game changer.
Thus, done! My poster thus posted in Mastodon a reply:
This was maybe 45 minutes or less of mucking around, but so much more satisfying that taking what a GenAI vending machine spits out at you.
I Remix, Therefore I Am.
Featured Image: Making flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license
Fables of the Deconstruction, baby!
🙂
Kevin