Revisions

thoughts??

I changed the doc size so it's taller and gave more room for the definition to go and made that box have rounded corners like all the other ones. I changed to Georgia as my serif font and Arial as my sans serif font so they are all web safe fonts - including the heading.

The Photoshop Tutorial...

that almost killed me!

"Delicious Green Apple"

HERE is where I learned how to create this apple. It does look pretty delicious with the help of lots and lots of filter and glaussian blurs. I learned how to use some things in Photoshop that I hadn't used before like layer masks.

Revised Layouts

Taking the advice given by Suzannah, I made a few revisions.  I changed the pink to a lighter pink so there is more contrast between it and the brown and is not so bright.  Also, I combined some of the words in the list under "upload" so that there are not so many.  By making the brown box they sit in wider and increasing the leading, this box seems to read better.

Layouts

AWESOME WEBSITE!!

I found this website when I was bored and everyone has to go to it! You can create your own font FREE! All you have to do is print out a template, write the alphabet following the rules of where the baseline, x-height, ascender and descender are, scan it in, upload, and you've got a font!

www.YourFonts.com

Photoshop

Here's a website I've used to learn how to do things in Photoshop.

Check it out!

79 - Quick Rocky Surface

When learning how to do more with Photoshop, I thought it would be helpful to learn how to do a surface that looks like very textured, almost like dirt (which I can use for another art project I'm working on).

Using #79 in the Photoshop Tips and Tricks packet, I created a "quick rocky surface".

The steps I followed for this were:

1. Create a file with RGB color mode

2. Create a new channel with black foreground

3. Use the clouds and difference clouds on this layer (Filter > Render > Clouds, Difference Clouds)

4. Repeat the second one (Command + F)

5. On the RGB channel, fill the color you want

6. Create Lighting effects (Filter > Render > Lighting Effects)

7. Set Light Type to Directional

8. Set Texture channel to Alpha 1 and drag the intensity all the way up on the slider

9. Make changes to the Properties sliders to get the desired effect

I could see this being incorporated into my book cover design project!

Mood Boards

Here are my mood boards.  I think I have decided on how I want each section to have it's own look (by color), it's just getting the right color palette that goes with my connotative words!

Mood Boards

I found this one and really liked the design. Just thought I would share it with yall!

New Wireframes

The websites I found gave me some more ideas for layout!

homepage:

secondary page:

Connotative Words

I began thinking of what I want my website to feel like when viewers first go to the site. The words I have come up with are:

Clean > the design doesn't look cluttered and is well put together

Fresh > new design, not set up like a lot of other sites

Simplistic > well organized information for easy using

Colorful > not gaudy! colors catch attention so use them to organize and divide up

 information

Here are some examples of websites that I think portray these words...

Wireframes

I have found that these are very helpful for laying out a website. I have a feeling that when I start to design the website they will change some but for now they give me a great place to start!

This one played off the idea of having a web with the home page in the middle and then the subpages off of it