My Second Picture

The second picture I chose referred to the word challenge. I also used picnik for this picture. Even if you don't have an account on picnik you can sample it by uploading pictures and using the demo. The nice thing is that you can us the demo free without an account as many times as you want.

1) After up loading my picture I clicked the create tab

2) Then I went to the effects tab and looked through possible ones that I might use

3) I picked the Loomish effect and blurred the edges to what I thought was appealing

4) The I clicked the text tab and chose the font type I wanted

5) After typing the text I wanted, I resized the words and added the colors I wanted by clicking the pop-up menu that came up after adding the text

6) Finally I clicked save and share to save my finished photo!

My Interview

One of our assignments this week was to interview a professional who works in a feild involving Digital Design. I interviewed Crystal Kahle, the Human Resource Manager at St. Anthony's Hospital right here in O'Neill. Part of her job is creating marketing material for the hospital.
When I asked her about basic design principles to follow she gave me two that she goes by. One of them is to know your demagraphic. This is knowing who you are advertising to, so you can appeal to them and catch their interest. An example of this would be using bright eye-catching colors for the youth and more uniform and symmetrical documents for an older population. The other principle Crystal goes by is to have a focal point to draw the eye of the people that you want to notice your advertisement.
Tips that Crystal gave me were to know who you want to reach out to. The eyes likes lines and creative things. If you had three different text bullets on your paper it would be more appealing to line them up, rather than scatter the around the paper. Think outside the box for more ideas.
The advice that Crystal would give to a novice designer would be to take any classes you can to learn about design. She said to go out and experiment with things, trying different colors and effects. It also helps to look at other works for ideas, such as magazines of newpapers.

Thank you for your time, Crystal! :)

Word Picture Assignment

Above is the picture I chose for the latest assigned project.

The steps I took to edit this photo are the following:

1) I uploaded my photo on picnik the I clicked the create tab

2) On the left hand side under basics I clicked Black and White

3) Then I changed the brush size in the effect painting tab that popped up to size 17

5) Using the brush, I went over the things I wanted to show up in color

6) Then I added text and chose the type of font I wanted

7) From Picnik I saved my photo and uploaded it in adobe photoshop, so I could crop it to the size I wanted and save the edited picture!

Pictures that caught my Eye!

As I was looking through pictures on flicker these are five that I found.

Feel free to take a look!

This was a cool action shot if found and the color scheme is also unique.

Wow, this picture gives me the chills just looking at it, but it sure is neat.

The silouette in this picture is really cool and the shot overall is amazing.

Pictures of animals and nature really appeal to me. I thought this guy was cute!

I thought this was a really interesting layout!

Photoshop Podcasts

While searching for a photoshop podcast I found one that I thought would be very helpful. It's published by Justin Seeley an Adobe certified photoshop expert and graphic designer. He created the Photoshop Quicktips and Gradient Mesh video podcasts that you can subscribe to in the Itunes store. I went through some of the Photoshop Quicktips videos. It has around seventy episodes right now and more to come. I watched episode sixty five about color change. I didn't know that it could be that easy! I also thought twenty-nine, lighting made easy, would be something I could use often because my camera doesn't have a very good flash on it. There are so many episodes to choose from that could be easily learned. I'm not very experienced with photoshop so I find these tips helpful to myself. The episodes can greatly help someone looking for fast ways to learn about editing photos. The episodes vary from two to around seven minutes at the most. I reccommend you check them out!

Exploring Apple Student Gallery

I found the Apple Student Gallery to be very interesting. You can look at videos, pictures, music, and presentations. It shows all these things in a toprated category. It also lets you look at new projects. You can search the gallery for ideas, too. When you look at different projects you can give your own rating of what you see. Whether you like what you see or if you see room for improvement. If you really like what you see you can comment on the project or tell a friend, which emails the project to the friend that you think will find it enjoyable. However, you have to be eighteen to have a valid account. I think lowering the age will benefit the site and users. It will benefit the site because more users will be able to have accounts. It can benefit the users by provinding the site to do things for school or other outside activities.