My Jersey Swap Tutorial

It’s been awhile since I’ve had time to sit down and get creative with a design and not have any restriction and had complete freedom. I decided to video the jersey swap and do a tutorial on my instagram https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-cgHtJJh3p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link it had a good turnout but it gave me something to do during my quarantine. With all of my graphic design, I was completely self taught, I’ve never made any kinds of tutorials. So I decided with all of this free time everyone has I felt there was no better time than now to spread some creative juices. In the tutorial video I went through step by step, how to jersey swap, in this weeks blog I have decided to briefly go over my process for the rest of it. Once the swap was complete, I had to come up with some sort of background, this took awhile, I had a hard time finding the picture I had in my head. I went through google and the photos I already had and decided I would test myself and remove the players from this image and add fans in the background. I knew that the swap and smoke would cover up some of the people in the middle sections so I tried to improvise with what I had. I had to try to get the lighting right, with help of some vignette layers it also covered up some fans. Lighting is a big part in these kinds of processes so I worked on shadowing the player and the arena. Next I went in with some flares, lightning, and electric effects as overlays until I got the look I was going for. With the next step, I went online and found a picture of all the banners the razorback basketball program has won, cut them out, added shadows, and made it look like they were unrealistically hanging from the rafters. Finally, I found another image online of another player and added the bottom of the scoreboard with the razorback logo at the top.