Our Own Font

This project was easily my favorite so far. We first had to choose a theme for our font that we would be able to make the entire alphabet (CAPITALS and lower case) along with the numbers 0-9. For me this was very easy because the theme I chose was lacrosse, which had straight lines (lacrosse sticks and cleats), and curves(goggles, mouthguards, and lacrosse balls). Actually making the letters wasn't as difficult as it seems. As long as you knew how to use tools such as warp, scale, and rotate you were all set. Once we made each letter individually we had to put them all into the same document in Photoshop, then typed "Hello, Goodbye" and our names. Marissa, Emma, and I took the song "Hello Goodbye" by The Beatles, and split the lyrics up throughout our class. Each person made their specific assigned words on an 8x11, 150 DPI so that we could put them into an iMovie, in such a way that the lyrics were in sync with the audio of the song. iMovie was a new program that I have never used before this class, and at first I was very frustrated with it, however it ended up to very easy once you got used to it.

School of Fish

   This project was done to show us the technique of using the blur tools. First we had to create a gradient background from light to dark. After that we saved a picture of a fish from Google, opened it, turned it to gray-scale, deleted all the white, and saved the new image as a brush preset. Then you went back into the picture with your gradient, selected the paintbrush, and painted in different sized fish that were also different colors.  Once that was done we went onto a new layer and added the streaks of light. To do this you used the paintbrush that looked like dirt, using white, then used the blue filter. Next you had to make the sand, you used a yellow brown, added noise, changed the opacity so that it blended in better. Then the bubbles had to be put in. To do this you made a circle, filled it with white, added a black highlight along with a black border. Next you had to turn this into yet another brush preset. Lastly we saved another picture of a texture so that it gave the effect of it looking more like water and not just paint.

Mid-year Poster

This was our midterm for Graphic Arts. We were handed a picture and were told to recreate it. Some of the things were easy to duplicate however others were tasks that we hadn't talked about in a while. For example the clouds were the same cloud just flipped. Also you had to make sure you added the correct drop shadow on the words "Happiness is" other wise it wouldn't look right. I thought that this midterm was a good test to see what we have actually learned, and also to show yourself what you have learned to with Photoshop.

Holiday Posters

      This project was one that allowed us to make more decisions on our own. We had to choose 2 major and 2 minor holidays. I chose Christmas, and Halloween, along with Dr. Seuss Day and Armed Forces day. Then you made a list of things that go along with that holiday.  Next we went on Google and found 16 pictures for things that coordinate with each holiday yet they had to be real life pictures, not graphic images. After that we converted each into a graphic image, basically by adding a new layer and using different tools so that we re-made the image on top of it. Lastly we put them all into one picture each with a different opacity along with the title of the holiday on the bottom.

Brain Project

  
     There were many things that this brain project taught me. First we had to make a list of 60 things in our lives that we like. This to me was a challenge at first because I couldn't think of what to write, however once I got into it, it turned out to be easier then I thought. Once we had the list completed we had to go onto the internet and find pictures that showed what we liked. All of the pictures we got had to be large or else they wouldn't work. Once you found the picture you wanted to use on Google you had to click on it, zoom in as much as possible, then save it. I did all of my pictures wrong in the beginning because I didn't get the picture to its largest view. After you found all 60 pictures you had to edit them down to just what you were talking about. So you had to go from a pile of sour patch kids to just one. This was a very long process that turned out to be very difficult. We used tools such as the eraser and the different lasso tools. Once you edited all 60 pictures you had to take a picture of yourself looking up. Then you had to cut off your forehead and rotate it so that it looked like your head was opening up. Next you imported your photos into the picture and re-sized them along with placing them in a way that made them look like a rainbow coming from your head. Lastly you put a gradient of what ever color you wanted to fade from that color to white.

Color Shapes

   We did the project shown above to teach us what changing the opacity would do to something. First Mr. Sullivan passed out a sheet of paper that had directions on it which told us what was required to be in and on the project. It was a specific list of what size, color, and opacity each shape had to be. Once we did that we learned about contour continuation which is why certain things are pleasing to a persons eye and why others aren't. For something to be contour it is as if the two or more shapes share a common line. To find where the contour lines are you put marks at the line farthest to the right, left, top, and bottom, as if making a square around the certain shape. Each shape in this project follows the contour of another.  Once we were done with that we had to count how many different colors there were in the whole picture however we started with only the basic colors red, blue and yellow. Rather then making only one picture we had to make 3 different works of art. All in all this project taught me what contour continuation was and how to use it to make other colors and more pleasing pictures.

4 shapes, 3 words

   The point of this project was to write 3 words about you on top of 4 shapes, and have a background fading from yellow to blue. We had been given a sheet with directions of what to do and what size to make everything. First I made all of the shapes to the sizes given, and with the textures inside that the sheet asked for, such as fuzz, and cloud. Then I thought of the 3 words that I wanted to use to describe myself. Once I had all of that done I edited the background using the gradient tool so that the colors faded from one to the other. All in all this project was a fun project to do.