Word Portrait Final

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Overview: Above (from left to right) is the original portrait, the first word portrait I created, and the final rendition of the project. Though it appears small and hard to read with the image at this condensed size, the full size image is an essay that I wrote on what I believe in that has had the opacity of the words adjusted to create my profile. 

 Process: The process to create the final image you see above is similar to that which I used to create my first edition, but there are a few differences. The first is that I used a much longer essay so I could make the words smaller yet still take up the same amount of space. This allowed for each word to provide more detail so you could see more of the face and less of the words. To help with this affect I changed the blending options of the text layer to screen so that there was a subtle effect so that the colors were transferred more efficiently and accurately. Finally, to achieve the desired brightness I duplicated the text layer and fiddled with the opacity of it until I got a final brightness that appealed to me. 

 For the future: This final image is the application of my for the future section of the previous word portrait post, so it has all the desired changes. With that in mind, there is little I would change for the future. However, I would change two characteristics of the image. The first is that I would have a longer document to take the text from because if the viewer looks closely it is in fact the same essay repeated three times. The second change is that I would have liked to have done a better masking job when isolating the original portrait from the background. This would eliminate the unappealing white line around the hair. However, as the image is black and white I do not think that the minuscule outline (which I noticed post-production) significantly detracts from the final image.

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