projects 6-10 to 14

Lab 6-10 has us work with how to place different objects such as text and images, into different layers for an easy way to manage them all together.

Lab 6_12 has us working with on how to changes effects that were on the text we typed, such as its opacity shadowing, etc.

Lab 6_13

Lab 6_14 has us work on how to create our own character styles, such as creating our own text, editing an original one, and showing us what effects and type of features we can use to make our text appear different from  its original font

Homework: Portfolio review

I am covering Brian Perez’s Portfolio. His welcome page is creative, and appears to use many brush techniques in order to give it a colorful design. Its plain and simple, and gets to the point. Its visual design by Brian Perez. The title also appears to have a nice wet paint effect in grey. He appears to have added a glow, similar to the background, to the writing as well. All the files are contained in a table of contents, as it was instructed. Inside is design work, although I do not see image work.  Within design work, are all the projects placed, with the labs within them, and I see that he combined the files together with his narratives. The files within are not really organized, as the final appears to not be shown first, and tends to be the last thing. Labs are not within project 2. As for project 1, it looks very creative, appearing in what appears to be a mushroom from Mario. I am not so sure all of the pictures are his however, as it appears some were taken from the internet. Other than that, it is very nice. Lab 2 appears very well, having a draft and a final. The draft appears simple, but a good design over all. The final improves by adding a glow to the writing along with changing some of the elements, such as its colors and effects. Project 3 has a overall good design, with the final adding the website. I feel the quality of the image could have been better. Project 4 is very well done. They had told me they took the idea from Zelda, which I am a fan of. Placing the box on a pedestal with light shining on it making it show how extremely important it is, thus “Sacred”. The overall artist design gives it a good feel. The only problem is that it contains a few white areas, which I feel could have been filled in and also the fact that it doesn’t make much sense with the black box itself, but it is still a fine piece of work. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it an 8.5/10. It has very few mistakes, but they could be fixed in a good hour or so, but it still looks great.

Portfolio reflection.

Erik Urdina’S Portfolio reflections.

1.      What was the purpose of your portfolio? Who is it targeted for, and who else do you think you can use it for? The purpose of my portfolio was in order to display all of the work I have done though out the past term in an organized way, allowing for the viewers to see how my skills improved as time went by in the class. This target is mainly for colleges that target these types of things if I wish to be a visual designer in the future, As well as it will be able to assist me in getting into jobs, as I will have something to show them if the job calls for what I have done in class. It could also be used by my current teachers to see what I have gotten better at and what I require to improve in.

2.      How did you create it? I created it using adobe acrobat pro 9. After creating a new portfolio, I converted all of my projects and labs into PDFs, which would allow everyone to view our word even if they did not have the program the project was made in. I then created folders in order to place my work in. on the outside I had 2, design work and image work. In design work I placed in all the projects along with the labs that we had done over the last term. I created folders for each of the projects, named after what they contained (for example, logo was project 2, so I created a folder, placed lab 2 within the folder, along with the labs we did during the time, and named the folder “project 2: logo”). I added a title to the project, along with a welcome page. We then converted the portfolio to a PDF itself.

3.      How did you streamline the file size? In order to decrease the size of the file, therefore decrease the size of overall the whole project, we went to projects, and as we were converting it into a PDF, what we did was change the Adobe Preset to smallest file size, along with turning off preserve Photoshop editing capacity. This in turns takes off much KB off of the file, but the quality stays roughly the same, and only a few minor differences can be viewed. We could also place it on press quality, which seems slightly better than smallest, and still shrinks it down quite a bit, but not as much.

4.      Would you say that your portfolio is an accurate example of your work so far? Explain your answer. I would say that the portfolio does fairly show how my work was in the first term. It shows that I was fairly lazy when it came to doing it, and it was only later on that I begin to really start trying to do something in the class. I admit I have to do better, but I am proud of what I have learned so far, but am not finished improving. I plan to do as much work as I can in this marking period, so that when we do the next Portofino as snap grade shows we may do one again, this time I can be very proud of it.

CONTENT AWARENESS SCALING and how it will assist me with my brochure

the way the video CONTENT AWARENESS SCALING will assist me in my project: Brochure, is that it as the woman in the video said, the viewers and the people asking me to create the brochure will not be pleased if the picture did not look like anything from the original, AKA stretching it. therefore, the video will assist me keeping the original  shape of the image intact. i will be able to show the same quality when i must make the image bigger, as with the content awareness scaling, it will mostly only stretch the back round and not the person as much , hench the aware. using the quick selection tool, i can select the item/person i wish to keep from stretching, thus allowing the quality of that item to be standing out very well.

Basically what Mr.V said today. shapes,lines,and text.

what we basically learned to do is to....

1:  basically we learned how to place writing within and on the outer sides of a shape, as well as changing its color, basically doing this using the shape tool, creating the pentagon, using the "type on path" tool, then changing its color with the fill tool.

2: how to create a line with the pen tool. just making two points, typing on the line, and making it green by using the fill tool, along with increasing the stroke.

3:how to create craves on the line, along with how to write with in them, as well as placing the writing on the other side of the line, by adding more points. after wards, i turn it upside down, by clicking a line on the edge.

What makes me want to buy,as a consumer.

one of the main things that make me want to buy things are sales. when certain things i like, say a computer with high ram, or a type of game that i would enjoy playing, when they are on sell, i feel like i need to buy it as if i didn't, i would be at a lose. not buying something that is on sale that i want makes me feel stupid, as although i dont need it, i want to use it.

Review and Design of business card

1: my goal for this business card was