For this project, I came to understand the importance of compression, whether it’s lossy or not, and to know when is the best time to use each for specific jobs. Especially, in this case, the lossiest compression was the only way I could reduce the file size of some of these images. I found it […]
With this project, I learned how to control the opacity of a layer and its various elements and position it so that it can be layered on top of the layer that I’m working on if the image turns out to be as simplistic as this. Most of the time, I work by positioning the […]
For my design, I decided it should be informative, yet also simplistic and pleasing to look at. To accomplish this, I chose easy-to-identify images for the front of the carton, simply explaining the apple flavor of the creamer. I also chose an aesthetically-pleasant color palette to use for the background so that no particular color […]
Even after using Illustrator in Intro to Digital Media, I could not have been more unprepared to work with the pen tool, but luckily the directions were available on the template itself. I found it easy to keep up with the directions and successfully draw the shapes I needed to. I’m happy I could understand […]
Finally! A brick rose! For this lab, I learned a few skills that let me take pictures from a foreground image and apply them to different backgrounds. I also learned how to use shapes from other layers to form easy pattern designs out of background images. Here, the magnetic lasso tool was used on the […]
Here is the textured fill layer and gradient layer of my Lab 4. I figured I should include the gradient layer simply because the gradient shape didn’t export to jpeg very well, and I love gradients regardless. I learned how to create a new texture with the offset and clone stamp features, and I figure […]
Although the construction of the card is relatively easy, I soon learned that the separation of the front of the card and the back of the card in separate artboards would prove to be difficult, as it’s somewhat unclear as to what needed to be done for both artboards to show up in the final […]
Upon creating these images, I hoped to see some sort of difference between the default coloration and the gamut-decreased version but learned that there was “not much” for Photoshop to change. The gamut difference didn’t prove to be much here, either. I wish I’d known how vibrant Photoshop considers pixels in order for gamut reduction […]
These images of my water bottle are both taken from my phone, but the first of the two was taken with the phone’s selfie camera. My biggest note of the difference between the two shots is that the sharpness is much greater in the front camera, where the selfie camera feels softer, and doesn’t differentiate […]