Thursday, May 8, 2014
Reflection Paper
Design Journey
“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time” –Billy
Joel.
In the
beginning of this year, I was a member of the two period class, computer
networking. While Mr. T is an incredible
teacher and a great guy, I found myself not being readily stimulated by his
class. I suppose the IT industry is just not my calling. I decided to drop that
class, and since seniors cannot have more than 2 off periods I needed to take
another course. I decided to take graphic design, because I loved playing with
Photoshop in DIM, and I had a passion for art. I believe that I enjoyed Graphic
Design so much because it allowed me to unleash my abundance of artistic energy
without having to embarrass myself with my sub-par doodles. Senior year was a
fairly difficult year; an overwhelming amount of 6 strenuous AP courses really
weighs down the enjoyment of the proverbial easy senior year. However, whenever
I arrived at graphic design class at the end of the day, I received respite
from my demanding schedule.
My
favorite projects in graphic design allowed the student to dictate most of the
designed choices of the project. Those select projects where there was little
to no instructions allowed me to open up my creative brain and unleash the ideas
which fraternize with my imagination during the mundane school schedule.
If I could do high school again, I do not believe I would
change any items other than maybe studying harder. As far as my schedule goes,
I really wish I would have taken graphic design sooner so I could have partaken
in the higher level design classes. My senior year was definitely the most fun
year of my high School career.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Indesign
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I became familiar with indesign by slightly editing this image. |
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I did this pamphlet about sporktown and learned to insert images and create patterns. I send you an .indd file so you can view the back of this if you please. |
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I became familiar with text wrap while doing this activity. |
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I became familiar with the basics of indesign during this activity. |
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Scrapbooking Page Template
Friday, April 4, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Removing Objects from Photos
Contrast Project
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(http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/text-effects/create-a-unique-burning-text-effect/) |
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Adjustment Layers
Even though my adjustment layers do not make my painting more realistic, some adjustment layers like posterize, threshold and invert are not supposed to create a realistic looking image. In my image i used the four following adjustment layers: Selective Color, Photo Filter (orange), Exposure, and Vibrance. I believe these layer adjustments created an interesting blend of colors in my final iceburg photo.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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