Finished Website!

In this project we were assigned to create a website using Adobe Dreamweaver. We started off just typing the content but then started to add things like color schemes, pictures and links. I learned that I enjoy web design and that there are many different parts to creating a website. I learned how to pace myself so that I met the deadline of this project. If I did this project again I would pay more attention to the color scheme that I was using and make sure it all matched up. I will take the knowledge that I now have about web design and use it to create a better looking website the next time. The instructions for this project were very well written and easy to follow which made this project really enjoyable.

Final House Animation

 The scope of this project was to create a dream home using Google Sketch Up. The home had to include a roof and other details on it. The process to complete this project was to get familiar with the program by creating a chair first then to start creating a house. Along the way, I learned how to use Sketch Up and that animation wasn't just movies but also things like houses. I also learned how to ask others for help of I was unsure of how to make a certain aspect of the house. If i did this project again I would go back and fix my driveway and grass to make sure they were closer together. The driveway distracts from the house. I would keep the front of my house the same because that is my favorite part of the house and shows my style. This project will help me in the future to take more time on the smaller details. I enjoyed this project after I learned how to use the program.

Finished Animation

In my finished Keynote Animation I created a story about a boy who is walking and it starts to rain. He grabs his umbrella but his umbrella gives him lots of trouble and eventually sends him up into the clouds. After a short amount of time he falls through a cloud and is set back to the ground. He then gets rid of the umbrella and it floats back up to the sky again. This animation was fun to make and see how it developed from Keynote to iMovie. 

Rainy Day Animation

My animation is about a boy who is walking down the street when it starts to rain. He grabs his umbrella but the umbrella seems to have a mind of its own and takes him up to the clouds. He makes it back down to the ground safely at the end. I used the shape tools in Keynote to create the graphics and then played abound with the transitions to make it come to life. When people watched my animation they enjoyed the storyline and the overall look of it. They suggested that I use transitions and work on the rain which I fixed to make it look better.   

Photoshop Projects

Project One

    In our first photoshop project our task was to resize the compass and play around with transparency. We used the text tool to choose the font, color and size of ONW. I struggled to resize the compass but I eventually got it to the size I wanted and it turned out looking good. Next time I would make the compass more noticeable and easier to see. 

Project Two

 

  For the butterfly project the goal was to create a bright and symmetric butterfly that had the effect of fluttering it's wings. In order to make the flying effect we used the clone tool and moved it down the sides of the wings a couple times. When changing the colors of the wings we changed the hue and saturation slider. At first my biggest challenge was using the clone tool but after getting the hang of it, it was easier. I would change a couple of the colors on the wings if I ever did this project again.

Project Three

   Project three was to  create the letters northwest to look like they are being cut out of the gradient with the school in the background. We used the gradient tool to create the gradient with our school colors then used a text mask to "cut out" the letters. After that, I changed the saturation to make the background have a black and white effect. The hardest part of this project was to make sure I had the gradient exactly how I wanted it to look. If I did this project again I would show more of a transition from black to blue in the gradient.

Project Four

  In our final project we were assigned to use the clone tool to remove two of the light poles and the cars that were showing in the picture. After that we used the lasso tool to crop the raven out of the picture of the gym and put it in the background. We then edited four pictures of around the school and copy and pasted them into the picture. I changed the effect and saturation of all the pictures then created a mask to fade out the edges of each picture. The only thing I would change would be the positions of the four pictures because they look blurred together.

My Name Logo

    In this project we were assigned to create a logo that resembled our personalities. We started by learning about the meaning of different shapes, fonts and colors then sketched rough drafts on a piece of paper. Once we had a general idea of what we wanted, we opened up illustrator to make our logos come to life. Tools we used were the shape tool,  a variety of fonts and different colors. 

    A difficult part of this assignment was trying to decide what fonts I wanted to represent my personality. Also trying to get all my initials to line up with each other. I addressed these by finding colors that represented my personality like purple and gold. Purple is very girly and the color of royalty so gold went very well with purple. Next time I would try to download new fonts if possible and make the outside stroke thicker.

Why Color Matters!

When designing logos or advertisements for a company a huge aspect to the design is the color. Many companies choose the color to relate to what they're selling or organizing. Many restaurants that serve hot food will opt with a warm color like red, yellow or orange. Companies that work with the environment tend to use blue and greens.

Red- energy, love, health, anger
Green- balanced, growth, environment, envy
Blue- trust, peace, loyalty, technology
Black- hidden, mystery, spooky, unknown
White- pure, innocent, whole, perfection
Purple- imagination, creativity, immature, individual 
Yellow- optimistic, cheerful, coward, intelligence 
Orange- positive, enthusiastic, adventure, warm 
Brown- friendly, serious, dirt, comfort

A good post I used to gather information is  Understanding the Meanings of Color in Color Psychology