Infographic
We are currently working on an infographic project in graphic design. I chose to do my infographic over Destin, Florida. We started off by sketching our infographics and graphics. This was a little challenging for me since I am awful at drawing. After sketching everything out we made color swatches in Illustrator. We then started working on creating our graphics in illustrator. We used several tools such as the pen tool to trace images. Mrs Beaudoin gave me many tips to perfect the pen tool and work efficiently with it. So far I have only finished my graphics which took about three weeks including all the planning and sketching, but I think they have turned out pretty well. Overall I think this is a very good project to get us more comfortable with illustrator.
Collage
For this project we had to take a bunch of images and blend them together to make a collage. I chose to use some picture I took while in South Dakota. I learned how to use he eraser tool to blend images together. Sometimes this trick wouldn't work when images were made up of very different colors. My idea of how I wanted it to turn out kept changing as I kept blending more images so I basically just winged it. In the end it took about two week, I thought I did a pretty good job, but the bottom half of my collage seemed a little rushed and could have looked better.
Photoshop Challenge 2
In this project we had to take several different landscape images and blend them together to make one image. I chose to stick to a space theme. I started off with taking a picture of a mountain range, then i put a galaxy/nebula background behind it. I also put two moons and a spaceship in the background, these took a while to adjust the drop shadows and other various settings to make them look like they are actually in the sky. This project taught us how to do many things in photoshop, but the big takeaway from this protect was how to properly use clipping masks. I mostly stuck to my original plan and branched off from there. This project took about a week, and overall I enjoyed it a lot and thought I did a pretty good job.
Time Management
Whenever I had extra time in this class I made sure everything was saved to the right location, and my Behance was updated. I also would browse Behance in my free time and look at other peoples work posted there.
Strengths
One of my strengths is time management because I finished everything on time, and if I ever needed more time would make arrangements to come in during power 50.
Areas of Improvement
I would like to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator and the tools within them. I just feel like there is so much I don't know how to do that would be super helpful to know.
Summary
My favorite part of this semester was the amount of freedom you get to use your own creativity and create things that express you. If I go back and change one thing it would probably just be to spend more time on certain projects and perfect them. One take-away I have is that you must communicate with the teacher in order to figure out how to use the program and sort out any problems you have. One goal I have for next semester is to put more time into my assignments and make them as unique as possible. Overall I thought this was a very fun semester and it taught us a lot about Photoshop and Illustrator.
We are currently working on an infographic project in graphic design. I chose to do my infographic over Destin, Florida. We started off by sketching our infographics and graphics. This was a little challenging for me since I am awful at drawing. After sketching everything out we made color swatches in Illustrator. We then started working on creating our graphics in illustrator. We used several tools such as the pen tool to trace images. Mrs Beaudoin gave me many tips to perfect the pen tool and work efficiently with it. So far I have only finished my graphics which took about three weeks including all the planning and sketching, but I think they have turned out pretty well. Overall I think this is a very good project to get us more comfortable with illustrator.
Collage
For this project we had to take a bunch of images and blend them together to make a collage. I chose to use some picture I took while in South Dakota. I learned how to use he eraser tool to blend images together. Sometimes this trick wouldn't work when images were made up of very different colors. My idea of how I wanted it to turn out kept changing as I kept blending more images so I basically just winged it. In the end it took about two week, I thought I did a pretty good job, but the bottom half of my collage seemed a little rushed and could have looked better.
Photoshop Challenge 2
In this project we had to take several different landscape images and blend them together to make one image. I chose to stick to a space theme. I started off with taking a picture of a mountain range, then i put a galaxy/nebula background behind it. I also put two moons and a spaceship in the background, these took a while to adjust the drop shadows and other various settings to make them look like they are actually in the sky. This project taught us how to do many things in photoshop, but the big takeaway from this protect was how to properly use clipping masks. I mostly stuck to my original plan and branched off from there. This project took about a week, and overall I enjoyed it a lot and thought I did a pretty good job.
Time Management
Whenever I had extra time in this class I made sure everything was saved to the right location, and my Behance was updated. I also would browse Behance in my free time and look at other peoples work posted there.
Strengths
One of my strengths is time management because I finished everything on time, and if I ever needed more time would make arrangements to come in during power 50.
Areas of Improvement
I would like to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator and the tools within them. I just feel like there is so much I don't know how to do that would be super helpful to know.
Summary
My favorite part of this semester was the amount of freedom you get to use your own creativity and create things that express you. If I go back and change one thing it would probably just be to spend more time on certain projects and perfect them. One take-away I have is that you must communicate with the teacher in order to figure out how to use the program and sort out any problems you have. One goal I have for next semester is to put more time into my assignments and make them as unique as possible. Overall I thought this was a very fun semester and it taught us a lot about Photoshop and Illustrator.
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