Week 10 - In Design

Today we went through a quick tutorial on In Design. We had alot of freedom in this application and could do pretty much whatever we wanted while also following the basic guidlines that Carmen provided for us. Here is what we did. I didnt have much time to be creative with it and just put down what we needed.

The rest of the class we had time to finish up on our Dreamweaver websites and learn to publish them with the bravenet account we created last class. I thought today was productive. I was able to finish up on what I wanted for my website.

Week 9 Dreamweaver

In class we went through a more descriptive tutorial on dreamweaver. It helped alot and I know have a more basic understanding in that program. We took the rest of the class to work on our websites. We also had someone come and do a quick tutorial of CAD. It looks very interesting, I took that class in high school but there is so much to learn about that program. Our project is due next week and I'm half way done. So thats a good thing I guess. Class for me was very productive this time and I was able to ask some questions to come to a more understanding of the program.

Week 8- Dream Weaver

DreamWeaver-Setting up a Website

• name of website
• identify host to publish
• domain
• URL address

We learned to hyperlink in Dreamweaver, crop images and place them where we want on our website. We created a web address for each of our websites. Mine is laceydavis.bravehost.com.

Created anchors-insert-name anchor-totop-enter-it is now an anchor. We then hyperlink the anchor to top of the page or to another page or image you have or another link.

Today we also presented our Flash animations. I thought alot of them were creative and interesting. I need alot more experience in Flash and will practice on my own time on motion guides.

Week 7

Final Exam
Flash
Dreamweaver

Breakdown

• wk 7- flash
• wk 8- Dreavweaver
• wk 9- After Effects/Auto CAD
• wk 10-In-Design
• wk 11- Final Exam: website project, blogsite project, in design project, extra credit

Flash animations can be done by key frame, motion tween and shape tween.

Motion makes it faster, there are two elements to make happen to create motion tween. You need to insert motion tween-create path-motion guide-insert-timeline-motion tween-guide motion

Shape tween-select break apart-main menu-modify-break apart-select a number of frames you would like...ex. 50-then select ending point in timeline-insert key frame, select a slide in between the 50 frames and select shape-you can also change the fill color.

Today went pretty well for the most part. I had to go back and redo the practices to make sure I understood them. I just need to practice a little more and understand all the tools.

Week 6-Flash

Today we gave our power point presentations on our before and after logos for our websites. It went well I think. Mine is very basic but easy to see and read. That is what I was going for, nothing too busy.

We also launched the application for Flash. In Flash we learned to create different slides. We first opened our picture of a running man and placed him on our "stage". We clicked on our first slide at the top and placed our man where we wanted him. We then clicked the second slide, right clicked and clicked "Insert Key Frame". We then dragged our running man on the stage again, only in a different position. Then we deleted our previous picture for slide two. We continued to do that for a number of slides. To repeat a number of slides just push Shift and click on how many you want. Copy and Paste the new slides in the next empty ones. To view your progress you can either push Enter or go to Control-Text Movie. That was Practice 1

Practice 2-We started with the same running man picture, I was falling behind on the project and really have no idea what the heck it was about. Others were behind as well so I hope they caught on eventually.

This is the banner we had to complete during class.

Week 5 Mid-Term on Photoshop and Illustrator

This morning the people who were not able to present their power point photoshop images had a chance to do that. I presented my power point and chose a picture of Nicole Richie. There was no point behind what I chose other than for it to be funny. I also chose fast food images and placed them in the picture with nicole. Here is a before and after picture of my photoshop editing. I used the magic wand, magic eraser, smudge, clone, free transform tool to get what I wanted.

We also did our mid-term exam today. We were given specific instructions on what to do on photoshop and illustrator.

For photoshop we had to open up two different pictures from the files Carmen made create different layers use all the tools and then some that we had learned in previous classes and saved the final copies under a new folder and save it as a web image.

For Illustrator we needed to design a logo using the text FUN. I had a more difficult time with Illustrator and did not make and save the layers I needed for each process. I ended up saving the begining image as another file instead of another layer. I was more focused on the design than the instructions on what we were supposed to do. I was not as prepared for Illustrator like I was for Photoshop.

Next time I will be more prepared and even try to take those tutoring classes. I can't afford to fail this class or have a low grade in it.

Week 4- Illustrator

Today was very productive and I loved it. We were able to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator. We had a picture of a drawn contoured house and we applied colors and text to the picture as well as spacing our letters to how we want them. We used the brush and pen tools for tracing and filling. We learned to apply colors to our images as well. I thought everything went well today.

Week 3-Picture Manipulation in Photoshop

Notes in Class

• When I create a file in Photoshop I learned to set up my preferences correctly.
• When we create a mode we go into image and there are all the preferences.
• The standard mode for web images will be RGB. CYNK is printing images, Grayscale to disreguard color and make a picture black and white.
• Size-the resolution image size for standard measure is 72 PPI(Pixels Per Inch). Anything that goes above 120PPI will be an image resolution for print work.
• Raster vs. Vector images- Each 0 and 1 contains a Bit. Every 0 and 1 contains a main ingredient called pixels. A combo of bits and pixels are called a Bit Map Image, which goes to raster image. Based on lines and dots-pixels and compositions-vector image. best application for a vector is Illustrator.
  Saved it under JPEG. You now have a PSD file and JPEG.
  
  
  Today we learned to crop images, duplicate them, use our filters and make our images more real and appealing. The design of the tiles on the floor of the picture have been duplicated and filtered and had shadows put in them. We resized them and learned how to use the magic wand tool to crop out specific images that we wanted to omit. We also used another picture which is the background. We went to Select-Load Selection-Chanel-Arches Layer-Layer Mask and then Reveal Selection. Which brought us to the ocean for the background. This is the finished product on the left
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This image is also what we worked on. The only thing we did with this picture is learn to resize our pictures and we learned about pixels and canvas sizes.
  
  Todays class was okay. There were a few problems with some peoples computers and some people weren't catching on. So there was alot of time just waiting. But I tried to take that time and learn more of what I could with what we just did. We worked more on Photoshop today and in a small amount of time we learned alot. So I hope I am able to remember most of it if not all.

week two-photoshop

Today we learned the basics like how to open photoshop and dreamweaver. How to save files and what to save them under. I thought photoshop was easy and it does help if you knew how to use it before. I taught myself how to use photoshop so having someone teach you the right way to use it was helpful and informative. I have never used dreamweaver so Im glad we we're able to at least get familiar with the basics. Which is helpful. Todays class was pretty easy and I dont think I'll have a problem remembering these basics. This image is what we worked on in photoshop and how to apply text to the image, how to crop the image and so forth.

week 1/my first class

I'm actually looking foward to this class this quarter. Hoping to develop more knowledge with each program and I'm so glad its hands on work. Which is the easiest way for me to learn. Along with many others who can agree with me. After knowing the basics it seems that it can only get better. Where you can start getting creative with your work cause you'll actually know how to do everything. Well we'll see how it goes.