Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Fire Truck!

 My Fire Truck!

This is my fire truck I created. I followed the picture in the book and it was so much fun. I used lots of shapes. Who knew making something this detailed would be fun and easy.

Adobe Illustrator: Clipping Mask: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

I created this amazing image by first making the bunny. I used circles, and ellipses. I then created the jelly beans using ellipses and gradient. I created one of each color I wanted then I duplicated them. I used the shape of the jelly bean to make the eyes of the bunny. I then made a gradient background to look like the sky. I added my sun that I blended with two stars and a circle. Finally I put two circles on it and put text around them and I made the edge of this wavy.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cat

This is the cat I made. I used the bunny but changed it to black. Pulled down he ears, added feet from circles. I added a circle white spot and flatted the bottom. Then I made the whiskers longer. Then I added a tail that I drew. I put a blue background and drew grass.
 
 

Adobe Illustrator: Vertical- View Diamond Trace

GEM EXPO NYC Poster

I first got the half diamond off D2L and traced it and reflected it. I then put a gradient on each triangle. I found a New York City background and put it behind it. I faded the diamond. I then put in a black rectangle and faded that. Finally I put in the text.
 
 
 

GEM EXPO NYC "Commemorative Stamp"

I created the stamp by first creating a black rectangle. I then followed the tutorial on how to make it look like the stamp. I put on a zigzag and then a drop shadow. I sent it to the back and centered the poster on it. I then finally turned it white.
 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas!



This is my Christmas tree I created. I made a tree out of a triangle and a truck from a rectangle. I used circles as ornaments, and two stars to make the tree topper. I then messed with the ornaments, background, and stars to make them colorful, gradient and pretty. I then finally added the text.
 

Illustrator: Hearts & Shamrocks: Using Shape Objects to Create Other Shapes

Valentine Hearts Card

I created this card by first getting my two borders and backgrounds. Then I created my hearts and put them in different sizes. I changed their colors to make them all correspond with each other. Then I put the text in. An finally I put a drop shadow on the text and all the hearts.
 
 
 
 
 

St. Patrick's Day Card

I created this card by picking out my white and green background/borders. Then I made a shamrock using hearts, a rectangle. and two circles. I duplicated two more. Then I put a gradient on them and messed with the levels and greens to give them the looks they have. I finally imputed the text and centered everything.
 
 
 
 
 

Card Suites

I first put on black border on and a white inside background. I then made the suites. I created them with triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles.
 

Adobe Illustrator: Diamonds! The Polar Grid

Diamond Data Security

 
 This is the logo I created. I first created the diamond using the polar grid tool. I put in two squares and connected some lines. Then I deleted some intersecting lines to form the center. I increased the outline of it. I inserted  the text and put in the star for the "o".

Photoshop: Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface


Name:
 Kelsey Taylor
Student Number:
17 


Photoshop: Chapter 6: Photoshop Interface

and Textbook Blog


The native file type for Photoshop is PSD, so you may often see the abbreviation PSD to refer to Photoshop.


PART 1: READ Chapter 6 from Photoshop CS 6 Visual QuickStart Guide, then:

  1. Answer all questions below, briefly but completely.
  2. Change the color of the answer to BLUE.
  3. Copy this information and paste in a new post in your DIGITAL GRAPHICS blog.


Tools Panel:
Photoshop has so many tools, it collects them under tool buttons on the Tools panel. Look on pages 102-104 for the Tools panel; you will see that the second button down (the selection tool called the RECTANGULAR MARQUEE TOOL) has a little black triangle in the lower-right corner. In Photoshop, if you click on this, you will see the box appear that contains other selection tools.
Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop tools:
1.      Elliptical Marquee Tool (NOTE: Photoshop calls the “marching ants” in a selection a marquee) - Creates oval and circular selections.
2.      Magnetic Lasso Tool- Creates freehand selections that snap to high-contrast edges in an image.
3.      Quick Selection Tool- Selects shapes that it detects in the image.
4.      Magic Wand Tool- Selects pixels that are similar in color to the one that's clicked.
5.      Crop Tool- Crops the image (unconstrained or fixed ratio)
6.      Eye Dropper Tool- Samples colors from an image.
7.      Ruler Tool- measures a distance or angle, or straightens the image.
8.      Healing Brush Tool- Corrects flaws based on a sample area.
9.      Content-Aware Tool- Repositions or extends an area of an image.
10.  Brush Tool- Applies brush strokes.
11.  Mixer Brush Tool- Simulates traditional paint strokes; allows colors to mix and smudge.
12.  History Brush Tool- Restores pixels from a history state or snapshot.
13.  Background Eraser Tool- Erases a sampled color area to transparency.
14.  Gradient Tool- Creates soft blends between two or more colors.
15.  Sharpen Tool- Sharpens edges and details.
16.  Smudge Tool- Smudges colors.
17.  Dodge Tool- Lightens pixels.
18.  Burn Tool- Darkens pixels.
19.  Pen Tool - Draws curved or straight-edged shapes or paths.
20.  Horizontal Type Tool- Creates horizontally oriented editable type.
21.  Vertical Type Tool- Creates vertically oriented editable types.
22.  Ellipse Tool- Creates oval shape layers or paths.
23.  Hand Tool- Moves a magnified image in the document window.
24.  Zoom Tool- Changes the documents zoom level.
25.  Set Foreground Color Tool- Displays (and lets you change) the current Foreground color.


Other Photoshop Panels:
Briefly describe the  purpose of the following Photoshop panels:
1.      Actions panel- A recorded sequence of commands that can be replayed on one image or on a batch of images. You can record, store, edit, play, delete, save, and load actions.
2.      Adjustments panel- You can use it to apply flexible color and tonal edits and corrections to an image.
3.      Brush panel- To choose brush tips and custom brush settings for tools. Such as, Art History Brush, Blur, Brush, Burn, Clone Stamp, Dodge, Eraser, History Brush, Mixer Brush, Pattern Stamp, Pencil, Sharpen, or Smudge. You can also choose special options for a graphics tablet and stylus.
4.      Channels panel- Lists and displays the thumbnails for all the color channels in the current document. You can also use this to save and load alpha channels.
5.      Character panel- You can choose attributes for the type tools.
6.      Color panel- Where you choose a color, colors in photo shop.
7.      Histogram panel- You can view a graph of the distribution of tonal values in the current image, and compare them with modified tonal values as you apply color and tonal adjustments.
8.      History panel- Each edit that is made to a document during the current work session is listed as a separate state on here.
9.      Info panel- Provides up-to-the-minute data about your document.
10.  Kuler panel- A free, web-hosted adobe application that lets users create and upload color groups, called color themes. You can access and browse those themes.
11.  Layers panel- You can create, hide, show, duplicate, restack, group, link, lock, merge, flatten, and delete layers. You can also use this to change the blending mode, opacity, or fill opacity of a layer; attach a mask to a layer; and apply layer effects.
12.  Navigator panel- You can move a magnified image in the document window, change the document zoom level, or target an area for magnification.
13.  Paragraph panel- To create or edit paragraph type. To apply paragraph-level settings.
14.  Properties panel- To choose and edit adjustment settings.
15.  Styles panel- To apply a style to a layer, and to create custom styles.
16.  Swatches panel- Stores predefined and user defined solid color swatches.
17.  Timeline panel- You can compose a sequence using audio clips and video files. Imported clips display as tracks. You can alter the duration of a clip, apply a filter or adjustment effect to all or part of a clip, apply present transition effects, then render a group of tracks into a choice of video file formats.

                       

P0ART 2: Photoshop & Illustrator Textbook Blog
The Quickstart textbook authors, Elaine Weinman and Peter Lourekas, maintain a Photoshop and Illustrator blog with “tips, tutorials, and design concepts” to supplement the Quickstart Guide books. You will subscribe to this blog and follow it during the class term (you may unsubscribe when the course is over, or you may decide to continue following this blog to learn more about Photoshop and Illustrator after the class is over).
1.      Follow these instructions to find and follow the blog:
2.      Go to: http://elaineandpeter.com
3.      Scroll throughout the page to see the latest postings.
4.      Previous Postings: Notice the previous months listed on the right; click several of them to see other graphics postings. (You can also use the CATEGORY dropdown list or the SEARCH box to find specific topics of interest.)
5.      Subscribe: Scroll down the page and look for the Subscribe via Email to receive new post updates. Enter your gmail email address to subscribe, then click SUBMIT.
6.      WORD PRESS: Scroll to the very bottom of the blog and look on the right; do you see this blog is powered by WORD PRESS? WORD PRESS, like BLOGGER, is a free, popular blogging tool. (If you would like to find more about WORD PRESS, click on the POWERED BY WORD PRESS link. Note: WORD PRESS must be downloaded in order to use it, while BLOGGER is a cloud blog application.)
Textbook Blog Post: SILHOUETTES  
From the Quickstart blog, scroll down to find the SEARCH box. Enter the word SILHOUETTES (be careful to spell this correctly! Or just copy and paste from this document.) then click the Search button. Scroll down through the post and click on the CONTINUE READING link.
1.      Explain the technique described in this posting and ways in which you could use it:
2.      Scroll down to find the cup of coffee silhouette pasted on the cafĂ© tables. Click the image, then save it, and paste it here:
Coffee Cup Image:
Other Photoshop Blogs:
From GOOGLE, search for PHOTOSHOP BLOG. Look through some of the results and click on several blogs. Choose one posting that you liked and provide this information:
1.      Blog Address (copy from address bar at the top of your browser window):
2.      Blog Posting (describe the technique discussed in the blog posting):

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Adobe Illustrator: Sketching with the Pencil Tool & Blending

Pet Rescue

I created this by first putting three circles at different sizes to create the border. Then I created the dog using the pencil. Then smoothing the edges. I added the eyes which are made of circles. Then I added all the text and drop shadows.
 
 
 
 
 

Caladium Festival

I first chose two rectangles to create the border. Then I began drawing my leaves. I duplicated them and added a blend to give it the different colors within. I added the stems. Then I added the rectangle for the words at the bottom and dissolved it a little. Finally I inputted all the text.
 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Adobe Illustrator: Chapter 6: Geometric Objects

Shapes Illustration


I created this just by putting to rectangles as borders. I then drew lots of random shapes in different sizes and colors. I even drew my own flower. Finally I wrote "shapes" and put it on top of everything.
 
 

Greek Play Announcement


This is my Greek play announcement. I added the border first. Then I put in all the text and made their fonts look Greek like. Then I created the Column. I uses rectangles and swirls. I made sure everything was color coordinated.
 
 

Luncheon Invitation

 
This is my colorful and fun luncheon invitation. I first put on the border. Then I imputed all the text and made it a sleek font and gave it a drop shadow. Then I began hand making each leaf and making them each fun colors. I over lapped them and put on a drop shadow. I then finally created my rose. I drew that also and give it a drop shadow.