Here it is! My Project 1 in all its spookiness!

With this project, I learned the means of using an artboard, where I can save lots of material on different panels and groups of shapes for easy reference and removing the need to tab back and forth between collections of images. I found it easy to work with these artboards, and I found it very fun to use the selection tools in order to eliminate some of the unnecessary white space that was included in some images. Printing and saving the card to a PDF were the most challenging parts, as I first found it confusing that Photoshop only saved one artboard to a PDF at first, and then printing the PDF didn’t allow the use of RGB, which made my card look sad and poorly-saturated. In the future, I think I should print from home where I have that luxury.

I don’t have any recommendations for updating this assignment for future classes.

In the future, I will consider artboards more frequently. It helps when I find greater value in constructing greeting cards instead of buying them.

The Wikipedia article on Print Design inspired me to do more with the text, even though I really ended up considering pre-made shapes and fonts. It was still inspiring, and it made me consider multicolored text in the same lines and colors that correspond to the schemes and themes of the pictures I included with the card.