My portfolio
Face Quote
The face project was my favorite. It was simple and quick and turned out nice. I made the picture black and white to bring out a unique look. I used the select and mask tool to mask out everything but my face. Having the quote in there really gives this a good look.
HTML/CSS
I found the HTML/CSS project confusing. What really gave me a lot of problems was linking everything and putting things in the right spots. When the CSS style page is on a different page, it's easy to put things in place.
Hoverboard
This project also one of my favorites. It's cool to know how to edit videos. It's something that I think I can use in the future. The purpose of the project was to be able to trim the video without taking anything important away.
Ultimate Fitness
The Ultimate Fitness project was one of the hardest in my opinion. What was really challenging to me was having to link all of the pages to together. I also had trouble with adding pictures to some of my pages. Although it was hard and it took awhile, I was able to make it work. It turned out great.
Motivational Poster
For the motivational poster assignment, I decided to take a picture of Michigan's football stadium at a night game so the text and other pictures stand out. I added a couple pictures to make it more creative but turned the opacity down so you can still see the background picture. I also decided to add "Go Blue!" on the jumbo tron so there is not just a blank space there.
Online Ad
In this project, I used the Palace of Auburn Hills stadium as my background photo because I feel like it fits well. I then added a picture of the schools logo. As you can probably tell I turned the opacity down on the logos so you could see all of the the photos clearly.
Flag
For the flag project, all I did was select and mask all three images of myself and placed it onto the black background. I added the two red lines by using the shape tool, then filled it with red to have our school colors on there.
Magazine
For my magazine, I used the sports illustrated theme. I used a football picture with article titles about the upcoming basketball schedule. One major thing that bothered me was the lighting in the picture so I created a black and white background but kept my body in color. The last thing I changed was the edge of my hair. It looked green so I used
Cows- Photoshop Project
In the great american west project, the image only had the cows on so I added the title. There were random bushes that were somewhat of a distraction but with the help of the eraser tool I removed those from photo.
Sushi class-Photoshop Project
The Sushi making class project was probably my favorite. It has a striped pattern that I added to it by creating a rectangle shape with the shape tool and filled it with the white to really make the pattern stand out. Also finding the right font for the text was key because it really makes it unique.
Mask out part of an image- Photoshop Project
In this project, I didn't like the original sky so I selected and masked that out with a new one which I feel fits better. There were also quite a bit of boats on the water so I used the eraser tool to take all of them out. The last edit I made to this was the seagull. It was originally placed on a rock lower than what it is now. I wanted the seagull to have a better view.
Increase mid tone contrast with curves- Photoshop Project
This Image to begin with was too bright. So I simply went to adjustments in Adobe Photoshop and clicked on curves and levels to turn down the brightness, as well as making it have that shadow look with lock still shining.
Camera- Illustrator
One of the Illustrator projects was the camera one. It gives you the option to turn rough, sharp edges in to rounded ones. Another cool feature is that you can edit the width of the lines or shapes. For example, the two middle circles were thick but needed to be smaller and by using that feature I was able to do that.
Adding Words With Shapes- Illustrator
Its quite simple to describe this because there wasn't a whole lot to it. All I did was create a circle with the fill color as an orange/tan color. I then combined that with a text box. I really think adding the shape brings out the text. Adobe Illustrator has a lot to offer and combining the text box and the shape is one of the unique tools you can use.
Codecademy.com
Codecademy.com is a basic way to learn coding. Its a bigger and easier way to create a professional looking website. This would be my second time having to work on coding and I think a lot of people should look into it.