Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Evaluation: My project was a success, I accomplished everything I set out to do. My website works fine and everything that it was supposed to do happens. What I liked best about the project was that the it was really easy to insert pictures in. I didn't have to open it a special way. I could just drag it on the place I wanted it to go. What I found frustrating was my tabs didn't come out to be the same size. Even if I copied and pasted. To improve the project in the future I could have put all the design cycles in that I did for the whole project but I didn't have enough space and If i made more webpages I didn't think I could finish it.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Websites

http://loreleiwebdesign.com/2008/07/05/fantasy-art-photopshop-tutorial-plasma-in-the-lake/
file:///Users/srivasou000/Desktop/girls-swim11-1977.jpg
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7953a.html
http://www.isledegrande.com/picpage05.htm
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1045159
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=model&order=9&offset=96
http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/giving-your-photograph-an-antique-look/
http://www.sportsequipmentcatalog.com/used-golf-club-values/
http://vintagedecors.com/old-black-and-white-photos/
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/layer-blend-modes/page-5.php
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/non_aviation/read.main/1598434/
http://mrwriteon.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/
http://www.ilovephotoblogs.com/tag/landscape
http://favim.com/image/41089/

Plan


Friday, April 27, 2012

Collage project more detailed






  • Who are designing for (who will see/use/buy the product)




  • I am designing this for students who are in collage or above. They will be the ones who interested in going back to memory lane



  • Objective - What the successful design must do (could also indicate how well the solution is expected to work or under what conditions it will work)




  • The design must have a fantasy sort of felling to it because the things you did so far in the past dosen't feel like the current you would do. It will also need to bring back memories.  It will work if the person is older because the older you are the farther the memory seems to be.



  • Production
    • What it should look like (Size/colours/etc)
      • It will be a rectangle shaped with different sort of bright colors. 
    • What it should be made from
      • photoshop/ the memories of the person
    • Tools needed to make the product
      • photograph/photoshop/Illustrator
    • Time needed to complete the product
      • 4 weeks
  • How is it to be used



  • it will be used as a memory book of all the activities they did in high school
  • Thursday, April 19, 2012

    Collage Project

    Investigation:
    "Highschool passes in a breeze and students have a hard time remembering all the memories in high school. We may have an yearbook but thats for all the student and cover major events our personal activities can be forgotten, " I will design and make a collage of photograph/pictures of all the things I have done in all my life. The design will appeal mostly to teenage girls and middle age parents, because they have something to show it to their own kids, and they will be more likely to keep and look at it.
    I am doing a collage so I need to find tutorials on how to edit photograph and how to to make recent photograph have an old feeling to it since you are going to be about the past. I also need to learn how to blend different pictures with one another.




    Plan:
    This is my plan so far and the websites I have used



    Creation
    I made the center picture a teenager girl because our teenage years are consider best time of our life and I wanted it to be the center focus. All the rest are in black and white to draw attention to the middle. The middle has a sort of a fantasy feeling to it since to the viewers it would have have so long ago when they looked like that. All the rest have important factors of the persons life.


    Evaluation: Overall I like the the whole project and ot was probally the best project of the year. I would liked to have more time with this because the whole thing was sort of rushed. I would like to have more time to look at the diffrent ways I could change a  black and white pictures. IF I could change one thing it wold be the pitch black background an made it intersting but I did not have time for that

    Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    Identify your Problem/Develop a Design Brief

    Identify your Problem/Develop a Design Brief
    "Highschool passes in a breeze and students have a hard time remembering all the memories in high school. We may have an yearbook but thats for all the student and cover major events our personal activities can be forgotten, " I will design and make a collage of photograph/pictures of all the things I have done in middle and high school. The design will appeal mostly to teenage girls and middle age parents, because they have something to show it to their own kids, and they will be more likely to keep and look at it.

    Monday, April 9, 2012

    The Website Project

    Investigation: I am going to create a website. I am still debating what the website should be about. My choices are a book/movie, clothing, or maybe about the manga I have read so far in my life. I am still undecided. I need to find tutorials that can help me create a basic website. After that I need to decide what type of information I want to put in my website. How many pages are going to be in my website. Where I will get my information. I am still browsing through websites in google to give me an idea how I want the format of the websites. I have an rough idea on what the color should be. My website will have both bright/dark and   rainbow colors. I want a variety of colors in my website. The more I research the more I want to do the a book which a movie has been based on. It will have to be popular and released in the year 2000+.












































    Plan:
    For the planning I have decided to base my website on flash based on the Hunger Games. Its popular and has a very recent movie released. I want to add links and pictures and videos on my flash website.  I had a basic idea on what i wanted my website to look like, but just to be more confident in my choice a looked at the simplest websites that beginners have created. I am gong to have text, pictures, music/viedo, information about the author and some type of background color. I haven't deciede on the color theme on if I should use the same color through out the different pages or use different colors. This is what I am going to have my website look like.





    Create: I have to search a lot for types of tutorials that can help me download videos off of youtube and how to put them in flash. A lot of tutorials for flash were for the old versions so I played around for about a week to finally get it the way I wanted this is what it looks like. I also looked over different tutorials on how to make my buttons a bit more unique and different but at the end I decided to keep it simple and just have the words change color when the mouse rolls over to it. I have no idea how I got the background for my characters to have the hunger game background but I liked it so kept it. Since my website is about the fist book I include a trailer of the book at the links if they wanted additional information. The videos took the longest but at the end it was worth all the time it took me to get it to work.








    Evulation:
    Overall I liked how my project turned out. The major problem i had was that the scroll wouldnt work in my website. I had done the tutorials and it worked perfectly but I was unable to apply that to my website. Another thing that took me a week and a half to do trial and error was trying to put a video in flash, and were to download my video from since most of the downloading websites I knew was blocked off because of district policy. What I LIKED best about this project was the fact that it was easier to manipulate the text to get it the way I wanted it to look like. I also like that I cold add pictures directly in my website without opening it a special or complicated way.