Digital Arts ART210

        This project was one of my favorites as in high school I did a ton of photography and worked some with photoshop but never really learned how to use it well. I chose these images as I thought I could get creative with them. Each one I went through and edited things like exposure, contrast, saturation, etc. Then on some I changed the color balance to make them change from a blue/green to a yellow/red. On one I just made it black/white and played with the shadows/highlights. On some I used effects to make them look posterized or grainy.

        For this project, I chose a vector poster. The original poster was black and white, but I decided to add color and to make the gloves pop more by making them white. To create this, I used skills I learned previously to create other projects like the banana and the business cards. I just simply traced and recreated the image by using the curves tool and adding color.

        For this, I felt kinda funny designing a fruit, but it helped me pay attention to detail and learn how to rebuild an image. I thought designing this banana was almost therapeutic as I had to be really tedious and work really hard on it to make it look like an actual banana. I chose an image of a banana off of google images, then got to designing. I used the dropper tool on almost every line and area of this banana to get the correct colors. I used the grid tool to divide off the banana into sections to colors correctly. I then had to color all of the spots and the stem which involved a lot of outlining, shading, and positioning. After shading, I would adjust the opacity and I would fade the spot into the banana to make it look more realistic.

        This assignment was one of my favorites as it was the first assignment that I could see me using in the real world. I started by Choosing a logo and outlining it. I got inspiration from the company custom ink as I really wanted to outline an octopus and their logo is an octopus. I then came up with a fake company to make two logos with two different color schemes. The first card has a blue, white, and black color scheme. I made it simple, but fun. I used the curve tool and then used the text on line tool to create the same effect in assignment #2 to come up with a fun logo. I inserted the "company's" slogan in the lines and then traced an old-timey pen to add to the logo. The second card had a purple, black, and white color scheme. I used an octopus as the logo and made this card more simple. After designing both cards, I group each card together, then made the cards 3.5 x 2.

        For this assignment, I chose to outline a sea turtle since they are my favorite animal. I used the curve pen tool to outline the sea turtle, then I inserted a textbook that put the words along the lines that I outlined. I chose a sea turtle poem to insert along the lines. This was one of my favorite assignments so far because it was so fun and turned out looking really unique.

        For our first assignment we coded a picture layer by layer. For my picture I decided to do a landscape picture of a house and yard with a sunset in the background. In the yard I decided to add an apple tree. It took a lot of patience to be able to code piece by piece in order to see the larger picture. I learned how width is where the object is positioned(left or right) on the picture and height is where the object is positioned(up or down) on the picture.