Favorite Activity

My favorite activity through this first 6 weeks is probably our liquify stage. When we used liquify, it was just something new because  you could warp a picture any way you really wanted to and it was a new experience. The only down side to that activity was having to type the story for that project.

We used photoshop to create the characters in our story, but we used the liquify tool to edit the aspects and looks of a photo. Liquify lets you warp, twist, bloat and pecker selected spots. We had to make a story for our characters too, which was really fun because the creativity with the story was really high.

Making Logos

This last week, we created some logos for our class, RTC Industrial Maintenance and RTC Auto Service. It was interesting because on the first day, everyone was trying to make all of these abstract and elaborate logos and thinking "This will look sweet on a T-Shirt!" But after we turned in those logos, Mrs.s Stalnaker told us to Keep It Super Simple (KISS THEORY). She told us to keep the logos simple because you cant really have an elaborate logo on a T-Shirt because it is just too hard, so you gotta have something simple but cool. She told us that it was good to remember that because, if its too complex, it wont work.

Thoughts on Adobe Illustrator

On Friday (September 5th), we were introduced to Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is like Photoshop in many ways, but is also very different. Photoshop, the photos have pixels, while in Illustrator, everything created in Illustrator is made out of vectors.

Vectors are line segments that are smooth and do not contain pixels. If you place anything in Illustrator, you can zoom in as far as possible and still see no pixels, this is because of the vectors. Photoshop on the other hand, contains pixels and the more you zoom in, the more you begin to see those pixels. Photoshop is more of a photo editor, when Illustrator is more of a graphic designer for logos.

In all honesty, I'd have to say that I like Adobe Photoshop, because its a bit harder to use and you can do quite a bit more in it. The only thing that I like about Adobe Illustrator is the fact that you have a bit more creative tools in it to help you "Illustrate" your photo.

What Is DPI? New Photoshop Tools?

DPI stands for Dots Per-Inch and we learned that the internet can only hold 72 DPI or else your just wasting space. The DPI for the web is automatically set for 72 DPI because if its over 72, it will automatically be changed to 72 because there are too many pixels and it wastes space on the web page. When we print pictures, we will set the DPI for the picture at 300, im not too sure why its specifically 300, but it adds more pixels and makes the picture look a whole lot better. We print at 300 DPI because the printer can handle it at 300.

This week we learned a few new tools in photoshop. My favorite tools that we learned how to use are the: The Lasso Tool, The Quick Selection Tool, and The Magic Wand Tool. The Lasso Tool allows us to select parts of an image, but its used for free-hand selection. The Quick Selection Tool is used to select certain areas but that area has like (common) pixels (color wise). The Magic Wand Tool lets you do the Same thing but you just click instead of click and drag.