Friday, January 31, 2014

Two Fruits - watermelorange

Watermelorange
For this assignment we had to put one fruit inside another, I chose to put a watermelon inside a orange. I started off by choosing a orange for the out side, then I selected the orange using the lasso tool, then hit the keys Ctrl+Shift+I. Then I deleted the background, then I opened then I opened the watermelon and cut the outside off and leaving the inside. I copied and pasted it on to my orange then hit the Alt key to copy the watermelon slice and then turned it upside down. Then put the two half's together inside the orange. Then I named it Watermelorange.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Flower Pictography


For this assignment we to create a pictography, I started off my choosing a flower that I liked then opened it up in fireworks. I started by selecting the image and used the lasso tool to draw around the flower. Next I deleted the background to the flower just remained. I then took the magic wand and selected the parts of the background to delete. Next I opened the original image again and then copied and pasted my cut out on it. Next I presses the Alt key to make copies oh the image and started to put them on the flower for the petals. For the center of the flower  I deleted the petals then placed them all inside of the center.

Friday, January 24, 2014

Taylor Meserve-Black Swan Business Card

Unprofessional
For this assignment we had to create three business cards,a unprofessional,semi-professional, and professional. For the unprofessional one I started by opening the original logo that was given to us, then I searched a picture of a sun set and saved that into my file. I then opened the picture and copied it, then went back to my original logo and selected it. I then went to the "Edit" tab and clicked on "Past Inside" then clicked on "Don't Re-sample". This makes the image you copy to fill the object you selected, I added an effect on the logo which was a inner bevel. I changed the background color to a burnt orange, then typed the information that we needed on the card.
Semi-Professional
For my semi-professional I started by using my original logo and put a gradient affect on it which was "folds" and  I chose black,light grey,and purple for the colors. Next I then flipped the image by going to the "Modify" tag then clicking  on "transform" then to "flip horizontally". For the canvas color I chose a light grey then lastly I typed all the information that was needed on the business card
Professional

 For my professional card I starred out by using my original logo and putting a liner effect on it and then applying a swish texture. Next I coppied the image by clicking on the logo and pressing the "alt" key.  I then went to the "Modify" tab then clicked "transform" then to " flip .horizontally. I chose the background color to be a dark plum purple then typed the information that was needed on the card.














Tuesday, January 21, 2014

President Typograghy Ulysses S. Grant

For this assignment we had to create a typography, we had to pick a president that was on U.S currency,the president I chose was Ulysses S. Grant,he was the 18th president of the United States.How I created this assignment was I started by finding words that described him and typed them all in a word document so I can refer back to them.I then chose a picture that I liked of him and opened it up in firework. I made a layer for each word,I started off by typing out the word that I want then I selected Ctrl+Shift+P to convert to path and then Ctrl+Shift+G to ungroup the letters. Next I placed then around the face to make the shape of it. I repeated this process until the whole head and body was covered in words, I then changed the colors to grey scale
Picture With Text
Text Without Picture