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Final Portfolio

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      For the final portfolio I wanted to go with a simple and cool colored theme. I thought the color blue would work well with my projects and other chosen images and I did my best to balance each slides color combinations too. I wanted the images themselves to have more dimension to them, so I added shapes and drop shadows behind the images. I stuck to the main three blue colors throughout the portfolio so that there would be some continuity throughout it. I even had the pages repeat in the same-colored order, just so that there could be something that links every slide together. For the sections, what I did was have each section be alternating. For example, in the Adobe Dreamweaver canvas project the title is aligned to the right, so the Adobe Illustrator projects after that are aligned to the left, and then it alternates for each new program we used.  I liked being able to see everything that I had done throughout the semester and see wh...

Business cards

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  Business card design 1: Business card design 2: Business card design 3:      For this project I used Adobe InDesign and with the program I was able to create three designs for business cards. The instructions for this project said to use a fake number, email, and website so those placeholder names are there instead of real ones. If this were to be used for a legitimate business then a real number, email, and website would of course be used. Since I have now used multiple Adobe programs by this point, it was relatively easy to create the design for these business cards and use all of the tools available.         For the first business card I wanted to go with a simple and almost sleek look. I made the font more basic and only put my logo on the card, no other designs. For the second business card I wanted to add an almost fun design element, so I used the ellipse tool to create the blue circles and then added a gradient. I think th...

InDesign Tools for Beginners

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  Learn Adobe InDesign in 9 MINUTES!           The frame tool for InDesign seems similar to the one used in Adobe Photoshop. You select the area you want to put your image into and then you can click and drag the image from the desktop, into the area you selected in the beginning. Although, this tool for InDesign seems to have more precise chosen are to work with then with the Photoshop tool. This tool will probably be used to insert images  onto the background in an easier way and move them around to fit the final  product.  What's  interesting about this video is that he doesn't just go over the tools he goes over the basics of InDesign such as the pages tab, guides under layout, etc.  Onto the background in an easier way and move them around to fit the final product. Learn How to Use the Basic Tools in Adobe InDesign CC | Dansky           This video goes o...

Autoscopy

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  Final Image: Estimated Time: 3.5 hours Original Image Used: Other Images Used For Hands ALL FOLLOWING IMAGES FROM:  Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Images & Copyright Free Pictures · Pexels Background Image: Images Used to fill "holes": Images Used For "holes":     This project was incredibly difficult to find a topic to go with and be inspired by. I had several ideas in the beginning to go with, but none of them panned out how I wanted them too. This final image was not inspired by anything in particular but it did come from one of my failed autoscopy attempts. I was trying to photoshop one of my eyes onto my hand and make it look like it was coming out of it, and that idea was just not working the way I wanted it to. Then the idea of having a hole in my hand popped into my head and I found a hole design and placed it on my image. Still not satisfied, I got the idea to put in, using the frame tool, some really cool images I found of d...

Somewhere

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Final Image: Original Image: Picture taken to be photoshopped: Estimated time: 4 hours          For this project I chose a scene from the movie Knives Out (2019) as it is an amazing movie that I loved when my family and I went to see it in theaters. This took around four hours to complete as there was plenty of adjusting to do with the hues, saturations, and other mechanisms to try to make it as accurate to the environment in the movie scene. While researching the way the clothes were styled from the movie, I learned that Marta, the main character and the character who was in the scene I photoshopped over, was styled in a more comfortable fashion. Going off of the comfort style, I through on more baggy clothes and posed in as similar a way that I could, before snapping the photo I used for the project. My outfit does not match Martas ensemble as closely as I wanted, but that is because I just didn't hav...

pre-somewhere project inspiration

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      This seems like it would be difficult to photoshop myself into as I would have to have the right facial expression while looking off camera. Also, since its a very crowded shot I believe this would make it more difficult, especially for a beginner such as myself, to properly photoshop myself into.     This feels pretty inspiring as the guy who photoshopped himself in the photo is just wearing normal clothes and a backpack, there was no need for more fancy or outrageous clothes      I've seen these edits before, and reactions to them as well, and are pretty hilarious to look at. I appreciate this one because I remember when the dabbing trend took over and this photo just encapsulates the feeling of what its like when someone dabs.         This seems like a fairly simple technique but the outcome is really beautiful. I have taken a similar photo for a friend of mine but it was with a part ...