Texture Backgrounds

We got three different background textures tutorials. We only needed to do one of them, but I ended up doing about two of them. The first one I did was the knife marks one. I did not really like this one too much, but it was very simple to follow. I ended up putting the distressed text "Epik High" in front of the knife slashes background and it looks okay.

Next, I did the shapes background, but I made it my own. I changed the squares around in the distortion and made them into like swirls and completely made it my own! I put the words "Map The Soul" in front of the background and it looks pretty awesome :)

Font Manipulations

We started to work with font manipulations! We did like distressed font in illustrator and we got a in-class tutorial of how to use it. We started by picking a font that we liked, and a name of a shop or any store name we came up with and started to distress it. It was pretty cool because there was a lot of steps, but it was so easily re-memorable, that I did it five more times without the need of the tutorial anymore. I did not have to ask the professor for any assistance after the first time. I loved doing distressed font. I believe that I will be doing this form many times in the future!!

PowerPoint Presentation

We had to give a presentation on a topic surrounding computers. I did image sensors and their importance on computers. I talked about the different types of image sensors, what they did, where they can be found and I provided a video clip of how image sensors work. Also, I provided many different photos or image sensors and a animation of light hitting an image sensor and being transformed to an electron. I got back on my grade that I was a little too general, but I still think I provided good enough information.

Excel Tutorials

We began doing tutorials again. This time instead of powerpoint, we worked on Excel instead. I haven't used Excel a lot so I actually did learn a lot of things. Like transferring details into a Book, creating different graphs and layouts and assigning sums and totals. Also, dragging the first month over to create the other months was pretty cool too. I probably will not use Excel much for anything except budgeting, but it was cool to learn that Excel is pretty nifty.

Train Vector COMPLETE!

I finished my vector!! Wow, it was so hard to blend the various gradients on the train because there was so many different part I used to create the train that all the gradients were off. The train was a neutral, gray kind of color to reflect the silver and the sun glares are spot on! If I put the vector over on top of the actual train in the photo, it almost looks exactly like the actual train. At first glance, you could not tell it was a vector at all until you actually 'look' at it. keke i think this project was very fun! I was so close to doing a vector of a cellphone, but a train turned out to be so much fun that I dont think the cellphone would have been good enough to please me ^__^

Vector Train

I learned a new trick today!!

While I was working on my windows of my train, Mr. Speyers helped me learn how to just copy a pre-existing window and just copy it over and over instead of creating a whole new window (using the option button!). It made creating the windows so much more easier.
The train is looking great. I need to finish blending on the gradients!

Gradients and Something Shiny

During our 216, we got to work with colors and gradients to make a vector out an object. Mr. Speyers told us that shiny things would work a lot better than dull items since the gradients would help make it more realistic. I chose to do a train because everyone else seemed to be doing cars and buses. It was really hard to find a nice train that wasn't grainy and wasn't small in resolution. I found a really good train and begin to work with it! I think it's going to turn out great!