Typography

This was fun to make, and took a fairly short time. I have once again used a picture of my friend Meena, who is here looking contemplatively up at a tree. My text says, "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia," a quote from author John Green's book, Looking for Alaska, which eh unabashedly stole from his wife, Sarah Urist Green. I used two fonts for this, Halo and Chopin, to give a contrast between the looking-forward aspect of the first half of the quote and the half-musing tone to the second half. In order to create the color effect, I duplicated the background, then cut all but Meena out of the top layer. From there, I used the Gradient Map on the bottom layer to make it go kind of retro and blue, then used a Gaussian Blur with a radius of 1.0 to bring Meena into a contrasted focus. Over all, I really, really like how this one came out.