Fonts and Images

For this exercise, we were asked to make a logo for a fake business/company and to use an image from Photoshop and incorporate it with our logo. I chose a light bulb from the custom tools and made it the dot in the "I". I chose the font Century Gothic because it has a fresh, crisp look that matches the logo Bright Minds, Inc. This was a quick activity and it taught me that images can be put into logos without looking phony and unprofessional.

Word Portraits

In this exercise, we were asked to choose a font and then write a word that is representative of the font. I thought it would take a long time to find the proper word and font combination but I quickly found two fonts I liked and thought of two words that I felt fit properly. The first font I chose was Curlz MT and I wrote the word "playful" and made each letter a bright color and then made a colorful background to fit the word. Next, I chose the font Stencil std and wrote the word "confidential" in red and all caps. I am happy with both words but I like the first word the best. This exercise brought to my attention that font is important.

Emotional Design

Original inspiration

Final Product

This exercise required that we take an everyday object and transform it to show emotion. My partner and I (Katie Casey) first started with a few different objects but we found it hard to convey an emotion. Then, we decided to make a paper shredder show fear. We imagined how we were scared of them when we were younger and decided to try and create a monster face on the top of the shredder. We used Photoshop to create the entire image and used the top picture as a guide. This was a fun exercise and really challenged our skills. I now feel comfortable with Photoshop after this exercise.

Color Echo

Original (from web)

Color Echo

 

For this exercise, I found an image of colorful lips off of a make-up website and then opened it into Photoshop to create the bottom image.I used the lasso tool to isolate the lips then I took them and put it on a new layer. Then, I used the color echo to get the colors from the lips onto the vertical stripes. This was a strenuous, time consuming process that was at first frustrating but it was worth it in the end product. Up to now, this is the exercise I am most proud of and I also learned the color echo technique.

Echo Color: Hues and Saturation

Original

Hue +62

Saturation -100

 

The top image is the original image I found from the internet. The second photo is the image with the hue adjusted +62 and it turned the red clouds yellow and the light blue water a shade of indigo. Next, the third image is adjusted -100 in saturation and it made the image a gray-scale. I liked the second image the best because of the colors. This was a fairly easy exercise but extremely useful for future projects I will have.

Second Life Prim

Using Second Life in class, I created the object above. I used a cylinder shape, a tie-dye pattern, and a fuchsia color. Although the shape might look simple, it was challenging to create and I felt overwhelmed with the vast amounts of choices available. After my object was created, there were a couple of glitches with the program and the ball was attached to my Second Life character for a day so this picture was hard to take without my character getting in the way of the picture.If i were given more time I would go back and maybe make a more creative shape but overall I am proud of my prim object.

Legibility and text safe areas

I created this general invitation that could be used for anything from a dinner party to anniversary party or any formal event. I played with the contrast and transparency to create an illusion of sun rays shining on the flowers. Then I used an elegant cursive font to compliment the flowers and background. I liked this exercise and I could see an invitation similar to this in a store and it is a useful skill to know.