Invasive Species Website

This is my second website that I have made using Dreamweaver. The idea of this was to create my own website using the content and logos that were provided. We had to come up with our own color schemes and pictures to put in our website. The process of our website took a long time. First we had to put in a code of what the dimensions of the website will be and what it will look like. What I will do differently next time is follow the coding very carefully next time so i don't have problems. What i will do the same is blending the text my color scheme. Overall this was a great project and I hope to use this in the future.

Dream-House Animation

This was a house that I created using Google Sketch-Up. The main idea of the project was to create a house that was a one-story building, that had a pitched roof, and an overhang. The process it took to make it was first, I had to find a floor plan that I could use to start building. Once I got my plan, I started building. It wasn't easy at first. The hard part was to create the house to start out with. If you didn't know what you were doing, then you wouldn't know what to put in. My house took me a while to figure out an I had to start over many times. What I learned along the way was how to use Google-Sketch-Up, and how to add components. Components make things much easier but take a lot of space in your file. What I would do differently next time is try to come up with more creative ideas. What I would do the same is add components because they make building so much easier. What I will draw from this experience is that I know how houses were designed and how hard it is to do so. In conclusion, I liked this project better than the chair because I had more time to work on it, and I had someone to help me a lot at home who knew the software.

Animation Project

Scope:

This Animation project I did was the first project I ever did in Keynote and in iMovie. The idea of the project was to create a 30 second animation that interests you and interests others. 

Process:

How I created it was first I had to come up with an idea. Then once I had an idea, I had to storyboard it. After I was done with my storyboard, I started animating in Keynote. The animating was very difficult at first because you had to make the opening scene and that takes the longest, but after that it is pretty easy because you can duplicate multiple slides. Along the way my work did not save in keynote, so I lost 2 days of work, but I caught up in time for the deadline. Then I exported it to iMovie to edit my video of how long the time lapse of each slide will be and I added sound effects. 

What I learned:

I learned the different thing in keynote and how you can use shapes to make a lot of different things. The deadline was also very fast, so you had to go very fast in your animation to get it done. 

What I Would Do Differently Next Time:What I would do differently next time is try to go faster, because I had a complex story but I wasn't always focused. 

What I Would Do The Same:What I would do the same is try to create a fun little story that everyone would enjoy. 

Overall:This was a great experience and now I know what to expect an animated video to look like.

My Video

Photoshop Projects

Below are the five photoshop projects I did using Adobe Photoshop. Each one of these I did were related to Graphic Design and Web Design.

The First one is a picture of my school with letters and a compass that has the name in it. The tools I used were the horizon tool to blend it in with the clouds and I used to opacity tool to make it shade to a clear shade.

The Second one is a picture of a Monarch Butterfly. I kind of messed up on it but the tools I used were the Paint Bucket and the selection tool. I used to the selection tool to select all the parts inside the butterfly and used the paint bucket to fill it with different colors. I also used the clone stamp 

tool to make it look like it's flying so I hovered over it, option-click and dragged through the wings.

                                                     

 The Third one is a picture of the school cut out into the words of the name. The tools I used were the gradient tool to make the colors right. I used the crop tool to size the image just right and I used the selection and inverse tool to get the words to look like what is shown.

The Fourth project I did was a picture of our mascot, school, and the inside of the school. The tools I used were the lasso and magnetic lasso tool and those were used to shape the image I had on the raven and cars that were originally in the picture. I also used the clone stamp to erase the light posts that used to be there. Finally I copied and pasted the image inside the school and used the different opacity levels to blend it in with the picture.

The Final project I did was my name in a color scheme. The tools I used were the gradient tool to highlight the color scheme I wanted to use and a mask tool to get it white and I turned on the transparency to get like this.

The differences between Photoshop and Illustrator are that in photoshop you have different tools to use pictures and Illustrator uses different tools for designs. Graphic designers need both because to make a good image you have to have a picture and good a good color scheme. Overall these projects took a long process but they paid of in the end.

Web Project

This web project was my first project using Adobe Dreamweaver. It was a very long process and it took a lot of steps and it was very difficult at some points. The parts that were hard were making some of the new CSS rules, because if you didn't follow the steps correctly than you would be in trouble because you can't undo it. What also was hard was getting the links to work. Even if you are one letter off, you have to start over the link process. It doesn't take long but it takes time off from finishing. Overall the project was fun, I got to experience something I've never done before and it gets me into the Web Design strand. The web project will help me with Web Design in the future. A few questions I have about web design are What do we do in the future of High School and Is this a good job in the job industry?

Below are some of the things I created in Adobe Dreamweaver for the Web Project

Ryan's Logo

What is this about?

This is my logo (above) that I made using Adobe Illustrator. The goal of making this was to create a logo that had my interests in it, and I made my logo into my own baseball academy.

Process and How I made it

I started out thinking what interests me and how can I express it. The first thing that popped into my head was Baseball. So I started sketching and I came up with this. Originally I had this sketch (below), but I wanted to add more, so I tried adding Baseball Bats that crossed through the ball like a skull and cross-bones. When I started making it I made a circle and but my Initials in them but then, I had problems making the laces, it took me a while but I figured it out. The hard part was making the bats because you can't copy and paste in Adobe Illustrator. I started out using the circle tool but it wouldn't work, so then I tried with the rounded-rectangle but that didn't work either, so I realized that I just need to go back to my original sketch. So I took the bats away and it made it much easier. So i turned this sketch into this.

What I learned

What I learned is how to use Adobe Illustrator and how to create different shapes from original shapes you start out with. The hard part of using Adobe Illustrator is that you have a lot of tech stuff in it so it can be very confusing. Also the deadline was in 3 days and it is hard to make a quick logo in just 3 days.

What I would do Differently/Same next time when I make it

What I would do differently next time is try to expand my creations a little further and make it more complex. What I would do the same is using my interests to help create logos. What gained from this experience is that it helps me think differently and help expand my creation to the next level. Overall I had fun doing this but maybe if I had more time I would do better.

Ryan's Color Wheel




Adobe Illustrator Color Wheel

The Color Wheel is important to use because it shows how colors can go together and mix. Companies use these colors because they want to use colors that go well together and have a great ring to it. Colors that a lot of companies use are Red, Green, Blue, Black, White, Purple, Orange, and Brown. Here are some few examples of what each color represent.

Red: Fire, Blood, Energy, Love

Green: Growth, Harmony, Freshness, Nature

Blue: Sky, Sea, Faith, Trust

Black: Power, Evil, Death, Mystery

White: Light, Goodness, Innocence, Purity

Purple: Royalty, Power, Luxury, Ambition

Orange: Joy, Sunshine, Enthusiasm, Happiness

Brown: Earth, Stability, Structure, Support


http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/color-brown.html

http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html