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First Page Photo Magazine

Introduction:

I thought the first page was going to be pretty easy, when we went through it in class I followed a long well and it seemed like something i would remember when doing on my own. I was very wrong. I drew a blank on a lot of tools I had to use and when to use them. 

Challenges:

I faced a lot of challenges when doing the title page. Once I found out how to outline the picture of the person I then forgot how to go back and move the outline back to the person because it went to far. After that I also didn't know how to erase the background because when I went to the tool it wouldn't let me because the pixels were not allowing it to. After looking through most of the videos on the spreadsheet and doing my own research I could still not figure it out so I gave up and decided I would explain what I wanted it to look like. Another issue I can across was trying to attach my photo to this blog, it wouldn't let me attach the one that i did on photo shop of just putting one photo over the other and it wouldn't even let me attach my other photo that i used besides this one. I will also have to look into that to see why it was acting up.

Photo:

I had many great ideas of what i wanted my photo to turn out to look like, but my lack of practice with adobe photoshop held me from making them come true. I have inserted a picture of a very basic look of how I was hoping the picture would turn out. My photo story was about my mom and how being a mom is a very important job, therefore I thought to crop her out of one of the pictures I used in my photo story and put her in front of our house. Another problem i came across was that I didn't not take any pictures of my house so I had to use a cartoon one to fill in the image. I will be taking a picture of my house this break when i go home for thanksgiving to solve one of the issues, and the rest I will also follow up on later with a classmate or the professor.

Conclusion:

In conclusion I will be doing a lot more practice with adobe photoshop to strengthen my skills, that way i can make the things I imagine come true.

swatchy schemey

Overview:

In the Spirit of halloween just passing I decided to use this spooky picture. It has a lot of different shades of colors in it but the most that stand out to me is black, red, and whiteish yellow. 

Task #1:  Photograph 

I recreated the colors from my photo into color swatches using the program Adobe Indesign. This is the photo that I got inspiration from for the colors for my swatches. 

Task #2: Swatches

For the swatches I opened up Indesign and made 9 equal size boxes then took the three colors I noticed most in the original photo and took the darkest and lightest of each color, and also added in an middle ground of the colors. Now looking at it though I do with I did yellow at the top and the red then black just to make it go from lightest to darkest. 

           

Task #3: Nameplate

When created my nameplates I made three equal rectangles by making one then copy and pasting for the other two to make sure they were equal. Then I made my name one of the other colors from my swatches and the description of who I am below, in the other Color that i did not choose before for the name. I then repeated these steps for the other two name plates.  

Conclusion:

I thought this assignment was very fun to work with and it working in the program adobe Indesign it made it very easy to do these swatches and name plates. I think this assignment has helped me improve with my Indesign skills and will help me later in life when I have to use the name plate for linkedIn or other professional things.