Volleyball Flash Banner

In class we learned about Adobe Flash. It is a program that makes animations. We were told to make a banner for anything we wanted. I chose to do a banner for my volleyball teams website. It will mostly be seen by young girls that play and college coaches that look at our statistics. It will make the website look more attractive and professional.
I used ten tools to do this project. I used Photoshop first to make the picture black and white, crop it to make it smaller, and put text on it which said Louisville Volleyball Club. In Flash I used the import picture to stage tool which imports the picture on the page. I used the selection tool to move the picture around. I used the align tool to center the picture. I used the properties panel to fix the size and height of the picture. I used the blur tool to make the brightness and contrast look accurate. I used the alpha tool to make the picture transparent. Lastly I used the classic tween tool to make the picture move or make an action. This project will be effective in the future because if I have to make a banner for my job later in life I will know how too.
Here is the website I got the picture off of.

Mosaic Photo Editing

Steps to Creating a Mosaic Photo:
ahotoshop:
1. Choose one main photo and two to three other photos
2. Use the rectangular marquee to crop the persons face out of the main photo.
3. Now go to the image menu and press crop.
4. Now we are going to crop the other photos. Use the crop tool (not the rectangular marquee tool) to crop the other faces of the photos. The size you crop these photos are going to depend on the size of the main photo.
5. Next, when the crop tool is selected, go up to the options bar and make the height and width 50 px (pixels).
6. Now that everything is set, you want to make a box around the other pictures of just the face. Do this to the rest of your photos except the main one which has already been completed in step two.
7. Next, go to the file menu, and click new. We are creating a new document that is twice the height and width of the photos we just cropped. So we want to make the height and width 100 x 100. Also make sure the resolution for the document is the same as it was for the photos you previously cropped.
8. Now click the move tool and move one of your photos (not the main photo) to the new document that you just created. Do this with your other photos but still not the main one. You should have a total of four photos, filling the whole document.
9. Next, flatten the image. This should be the new document that you created.
10. Go to the image menu and click on adjustments and then click desaturate. This will make the photos black and white.
11. Now we have to make this image a pattern. You can do this by going to the edit menu and clicking on the define pattern. This brings up the pattern name dialogue box. You can name the pattern whatever you want. Then press okay.
12. Now you can go back to the main photo. Click on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette. This will make a new layer.
13.  Fill in the new layer with the pattern you just created. Do this by going to the edit menu and click on fill. Select the use option to pattern, then click the down arrow and click on the photo pattern you just created.
14. Then at the bottom of the fill dialogue box, make sure the blending mode is set to normal and the opacity is set to 100%.
15. Now in the layers palette, make the blend mode set to overlay. If the pattern is a little too intense, change the blend mode to soft light rather than overlay. Or you can also change the opacity.

Main Photo

Photo 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

Final Photo

Help Find a Cure

In class we have been learning about advertisments and logos. I created the advertisment about Brain Recovery. Brain Recovery is done after you have an autopsy, they will take your brain and spinal cord out and send them off to various research colleges. My dad is an autospy technician so he does this all the time. He usually sends them to the University of Jacksonville in Florida. The target audience are usually elderly people with Alzheimers, or any person with a uncurable brain disorder. I created this poster because I would like to find a cure for Alzheimers, and my dad does this as a job.
While doing my advertisment I used the text tool, transform tool, swatches, opacity, crop, color change, rotate, scale, flatten image, and lastly the move tool. The text tool is used to type on your advertisment. The transform tool is what you use for a picture, you can use that to rotate, scale, skew, distort, and many more. the swatch tool is what colors you use in your picture. The opacity is used to make the picture or color as bright or as faded as you would like. The crop tool is what you use to make a picture fit where it needs to go or as small as you want. The color change tool is what you use in the text tool, instead of using black you can use red, blue, pink, etc. The rotate tool rotates the picture however you would like it. The scale is when you make the picture stretch out or shrink in. When you flatten a picture you must be completely done with it because you can't do anything else too it. Lastly, the move tool is used when you want to move a picture to a certain place on the poster.
http://www.public-domain-image.com/science-public-domain-images-pictures/
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/hledej.php?hleda=elderly+

Death is More than Just a Lose

My logo communicates its purpose because my father has an autopsy business and they use toe tags to name them. Not many people do autopsies so when people think of autopsies they think of what you see on TV which is not the correct image. I want people to receive the correct image of what an autopsy is and how it relates to my life.
The colors I used for my logo were red, gray, and peach. I choose these colors because when people think of an autopsy they think of red for blood, gray for the toe tag because a toe tag is really gray, and peach because that is the skin color I choose.

For my logo I used Balance, I used this because while making it I wanted both of the feet to be the same size. I also used Emphasis because I put the name in the toe tag in order to make it the toe tag stand out and to get my point across. I want people to understand that when I think of autopsy I think of something totally different than just cutting someone open I think of a life that was taken and a the story of how they died to go along with it.

What is the "Perfect" Body?

In computer class we transformed our faces on to a someone else's face. We did this to show how "fake" some pictures are in magazines and books. For me I used a picture of Jessica Simpson since we look somewhat alike me. I do not have perfect skin, makeup, or hair on a daily bases. This assignment has changed my view on magazine pictures because I used to think they were some what real but in reality they aren't at all. They change what they really look like completely. They make them tanner, skinner, bigger in certain spots, and they make there skin look perfect. In reality no one is perfect so you have to understand that all of that is done from a computer. For women and girls all around the world this sends and image of the "perfect" person. It tells us that in order to be accepted in society we need to look like that everyday. These images make women feel like they need to starve themselves to be skinny or receive plastic surgery to get rid of wrinkles. Most women are already insecure about there bodies and magazines and books make it worse. 

From my project I think I did my eyes and face really well. I worked really hard to get the correct color skin tone and it took me a while to do my eyes because they are so small. I think I could have spent more time on finding the correct color for mine and her face because we don't really have the same color skin tone. I could have spent a little more time on the placement of my face on to hers because I feel like mine looks a little awkward. Overall this project was a lot of fun and it taught me that not everything I see in magazines and books is real and I should look twice at things.

Photoshop is Not My Thing

  Recently I did a collage in Photoshop. I learned that Photoshop has many great tools. You can do anything to a picture that you want. I learned how to change color, fix red eye, fix blemishes, and crop pictures. It is good for not only fixing but creating pictures.  Photoshop is a very interesting and useful tool.

For my collage I used the crop tool, black and white tool, fix red eye tool, brightness and contrast tool, and the blemish remover tool. I cropped almost all of my photos which is when you take out parts of the picture you don't want. I fixed red eye in the picture of my sister doing a heel stretch, which is when you make the red eye on a person go away. I brightened and contrasted, which is either brightening the color of a picture or contrasting it which is making the picture darker, I brightened a couple because I didn't feel that they were bright enough. I used black and white on some because I felt that the collage needed to look more classic instead of all color. I used blemish remover because some had red spots on their faces and some don't like that. Overall it took me a while to understand Photoshop, and it took me a while to make the collage.  

My Photography !

This is an example of balance. This photo shows balance because there is an equal amount of trees on each side of the picture.

This picture is an example of what we call the Myspace angle. It is called the Myspace angle because most people on Myspace take pictures where they camera is above or below them. In this case this picture makes her head look big and her body look small.

This is an example of simplicity. It is considered simplicity because the pumpkin is the first thing you see when you look at the picture. It is the only thing that catches your eye when you look at the picture.