Personal Website

This week we worked on making a website. This website is not live, but it still has links to visit. 

Using DreamWeaver, we created two pages, our home page and project page. On the home page, we had to include our elevator pitch and personal bio. One trouble I had was trying to get the picture to float left and to get the text to follow it. I liked experimenting with the colors when you click on the link. The borders are not very even on both pages, so I'll have to fix that later. 

This is my projects page. I included my favorite photoshop project from Graphic Design and my favorite video that I made in the video rotation. Linking the video to the page was surprisingly easy and the hardest part was getting the butterfly photo and text to align the way I wanted. The borders on this page are very messed up and not centered, so I'll also have to fix that. 

Photoshop Projects

In the first project, I used blend modes and opacity to make everything transparent. 

The butterfly project was my favorite! I used the magic wand to change the color of the wings and the clone stamp to create the effect that the butterfly was fluttering its wings. 

I used the horizontal type mask tool to create the transparent text and the gradient tool (which was confusing at first) to change the color and direction of the gradient.  

In the collage, I used lots of blend modes and the brush tool to fit all of the images into the raven. 

Logo How-To

I created three different logos for different purposes. Each of the logos are very easy to make and customize to make it your own.

For these logos, all you need is the paint brush tool with the artistic watercolor stroke.

Once you choose the stroke that you like, just draw circles until you find one that looks nice. You can change the color and add text with cool fonts to make it personal.

These logos follow the same idea. Draw a bunch of lines, group them together, and change the color and add text if you would like. 

These logos take a bit more patience than the last two. First, I downloaded a badge online and used the direct select tool to select the part that I wanted, which was the scalloped edge. 

First, draw a circle while holding down the shift and option keys to draw from the center and make this circle have no fill. Draw another circle and make sure that you start drawing from the center of the first circle. Make this circle a bit smaller than the first and make the fill black. Group these two together so you can move them without having to realign it.

Grab the scalloped edge from the badge and make the fill black. Make the centers of the circles and badge align and hold the shift and option keys to enlarge the badge. Make the badge bigger than the white circle. Now you can change the color and group the badge and circles. Adding a monogram or letter will make it personal. 

And remember that you might not get it on the first try. It definitely took me more tries to get it perfect than I thought!

My Personality Test

For my personality test, I got an ENFP. An ENFP is a type of person based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. ENFP stands for Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving. The test asks you questions about where your energy comes from and how you think to out you into a category based on your personality.  

ENFP’s are both introverts and extroverts, but are identified as introverts. They have strong values and are enthusiastic, sympathetic, and affectionate. ENFP’s are friendly, but they have short attention spans so relationships can be tested because of this.

Career choices that best fit ENFP’s are things that deal with the arts or people because of their enthusiasm. Famous or popular ENFP’s include Robin Williams, Dr. Suess, Bill Clinton, Walt Disney, and Anne Frank.  

Creative Color Wheel

Graphic Design is Everywhere

Graphic design is often overlooked. It is used in everyday products, like movie posters and the tub of ice cream that you 'accidentally' at all by yourself last night. You see examples of graphic design walking down the street everyday. Your favorite restaurant's logo had a graphic designer behind it.

Drew Struzan was the designer behind iconic movie posters like Star Wars and Harry Potter. His style is well recognized around the world.

Graphic design is a huge influence on our world. New structures and movie posters help us appreciate and understand graphic design more. 

Graphic Design is Everywhere

You use graphic design everyday without knowing it. Graphic design can be featured on movie posters, restaurant signs, and even road signs. Since graphic design is everywhere, why don't we treasure it?

Movie posters can say a lot about a movie even without a review. If I see a sloppy and poorly done movie poster, I may not see the movie just because the poster makes the movie look poorly done. Drew Struzan, the designer of the 1978 Star Wars movie poster, made the movie look so much better because of his creative design of the poster.

Graphic design is very influential in our world. New structures and posters help us to appreciate graphic design.