Friday 1/18

Today in class, we started our phone case project. We designed a cover for an iPhone and submitted it in to our teacher. I learned how to group layers, make something blend with something else, and how to make something fit onto a template.

Thursday 1/17

Today, I am going to finish my yearbook cover poster and then head on to another building and take our Senior portraits. It is very fascinating because everyone is dressed up and ready for their picture to be taken; I know I am. (:

Wednesday 1/16

On Wednesday, during my New Media class, my professor showed the whole class our final movie posters and then we started working on our yearbook covers. It is still unfinished but it is coming along great.

Tuesday 1/15

Remake

Original

On Tuesday, during my New Media class, I finished up my movie poster assignment. It was a look-alike to the movie Mean Girls. The re-make turned out great and I absolutely love it. While making this poster, I learned so many new things which will help me throughout my Photoshop years.

Monday 1/14

Today during my New Media class, We started working on our movie posters that could go into the actual yearbook for our class. We took pictures of people in our class that acted out the movie of our choice and set them up like how the original is set up. I am doing the movie Mean Girls, so hopefully it will turn out as great as the original.

Friday 1/11

Radial

Asymmetrical

Symmetrical

Today during New Media, I finished up my three projects which did not take really long and then we looked at movie posters that we could use for our high school yearbook. The theme is different movie posters that we would make for different sections of the yearbook. It sounds exciting and interesting since the posters will be made new using the students of the school acting them out.

Thursday 1/10

Today during my New Media class, we learned about symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial pictures. We also had time to leave the class and take pictures for three projects that we would work on next. I only finished the asymmetrical one and now I am working on the symmetrical project. For these projects, we had to learn how to create a work path that we would apply words on in a specific direction that we wanted.

Wednesday 1/9

During New Media today, we learned about contrast and colors. We learned the primary and secondary colors. We also learned the complementary colors. After the lecture, we had to do an assignment called Color Pop. The assignment was to use the primary colors and make every color just pop out. We associated it with the school we go to and it turned out pretty nice.

Tuesday 1/8

Lo key

Hi Key

Tuesday was another boring school day. I have the same routine planned everyday for the next two weeks, so it's expected that my life is going to be boring. Tuesday started at 5:50 a.m. for me and ended at 10:30. I woke up and got dressed and left for school which started with my Microsoft Word class for 2 hours and a half. After that, i had an hour break and headed on to my New Media class. My New Media class makes me happy because we work on projects that interest me. I am a very creative person and  I love graphic design and learning how to work with Photoshop. During this class, we had a chance to take photos of ourselves in groups of three and used these pictures to make hi key and lo key images using Photoshop. I learned how to make the picture the way I want by changing the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and levels. The pictures turned out great at the end and I was glad because my school day ended awesome and smoothly.

Monday 1/7

                                     Before                                                                 After

Monday was the first day back to school for this short two week semester. For two weeks, I have to be at school from 9 to 3, and I am only taking two classes. The two classes are New Media and Microsoft Word. I do not enjoy Word as much because New Media is more interesting. During New Media, we all learned how to touch-up pictures using Photoshop. The key to touch-up pictures is to make them look better, but at the same time, make them look like themselves. It was a very interesting process and I learned many new ways to use Photoshop in the future.