Reflection on illustrator and creating files for print

In the first video, I've learned how to start on illustrator, and the guy explained to me what are the cool features and what illustrator does. The cool features are how to design newsletter, advertisement, and basic design to create an illustration. He introduced the illustrator by stating that it's pretty cool and it does a lot of graphic features. The most important art work is the art work is always editable, and it's scaleable. The editable means to add an additional tool to make it prettier. The scaleable is when the art work is zoomed it had no problem to view it; it original color. Also the illustrator could export and import variety of files that are in the computer. For example, i could open up pdf files, and others. The amateur designers can illustrate their works with illustrator.

In the second video, I've watched how to make illustrator display or print in my screen. How to make easier settings before creating my art work. How to think about what you are going to do before I start working with illustrator. The first task was to click on the Print Document. Print Document is where I set up my page and begin with illustrator. The size's are letter for regular art work, and he explained the Units that are Points, Inches, Picas and others measurements. So the illustrator calculates all of the inches. For example, if I number the width with inch while the unit is points. Then automatically, I will get points. I believe he thought me well because he explained how to print illustrator and follow the steps of the Print Document. In my opinion, I think that I will be able to do the illustrator correctly the way they did it.

Newsletter Terminology

·         Nameplate – identifies the person or products name that goes on the top of the newspaper 

·         Content (and number of articles and entries) – the box on the article that explains something... for example, graphic photos, illustration, and etc.

·         Table of contents – the list of main names of events in the newspaper, book, and etc.

·         Masthead – the editorial page of the newspaper

·         Titles and headers – the title is the main verification of a person, place and others. The header is the sign that represents some name, organization, and others.

·         Page numbers – the number of pages that you read through the book, newspaper, magazine, and others.

·         Bylines – a newspaper or magazine that gives the name of the person, place and etc.

·    

       Continuation lines – any sentence, entry, phrase that requires one line to be continued in the second line.   

·           Pull quotes – is a quotation or excerpt that has a larger typefaces.

·         End signs – is the last page of the article, and that tells a reader to stop reading.

·          Photos/illustrations – a graphic illustrations that shows an event, conflict, or anything else. Usually, get it in the articles and newspapers.

·          Mailing labels – a label that shows in the newspaper, article, magazines the address, e-mail, phone, and etc.

Reflection about the Brochures

 My reflection to those who interviewed. I've chosen 5 students in my class that presented. The first student was Christian Kinch. He interviewed his brochure about Jacob Riis information and Jacob's program and what they do there. He had accurate information and organized information. He didn't had a lot of pictures but it was good. The second student was Andy Martinez, he represented JMC Custom Framing. He needed to improve on the font color and brightness because it was hard to see and if the customers sees it then they wont be happy. The third person was Kevin Cunningham, his client was his father. He had some kind of activities that his father works on. I believe it was mechanical tools and others. My other reflection is to Jennifer Toledo, she had a good background, and her fonts were small, but she had it organized fonts. She interviewed about Cuban restaurant, it was about food and enjoying your self in the restaurant. The fifth student as Konatunboon Mark, he absent the day that we interviewed. He had a good background, which was about Bed Bath & Beyond.

PhotoShop - InDesign Lab Reflection

Advance Colors; 

Vanishing Point

Character Styles

          We did 4-5 labs requiring our methods of work. I used my skills also the student guides to help me to complete this lab. We used Indesign also the Photoshop for some of the image work that we did. The first one we did was layers, we followed the steps from student guides. The first lab was approximately 6-7 layers. My reflections are that I did better than before because I was able to proceed the labs that I've done. So if my teachers tells me that it's bad then I'll have to do it again. But I did better than before. There were some problems that I had during the lab. My teachers hepled me with some of these labs.

           Then I believe we did Vanishing Point which looks kind of draggy because once you look at it. You probably wont like it. But I really put some efforts on this lab too. 

Portfolios - Reflection.

         The purpose of my portfolio is to get all the audiences attention and to attract the attention of the audience. For instances, I wanted my portfolio to appear in the audience's obsevation like the advance design and the visual of my portfolio. The project is targeted for my future in the beyond college and the particularly my principle and my teacher to view it. Futhermore, to assure, and consider, and agree or successful to get in my reference. I believe that to encourage to other people so they can observe it is my friends, my high school teachers to see how successful am I in my portfolio.
          I recommended my self to adobe acrobat to create my portfolio in the format of portable document format. The concepts of my project as a part is I converted my psd, innd, jpg and etc. Those files where converted to format of portable document format. I created a welcome page, a header, and it seemed like decent welcome page. Then I sequenced the Design work, and Image work as in the main page. Inside Design Work I created our folders that was projects from last term. Including my Collage, Logo, Business Card, and Advertisment. Those were my main part of the projects last term.
           I streamlined the file sizes by performing the image size and decreasing the size of the image or project. Then aconvert the format to portable document format. If I decreased the size of the image, then it will be more diminished; became less size than it usually used to be.
           I believe that my portfolio is less accurate but I did my best  to accomplish the project-Portfolio. I believe that only who could view it accurately is the audience. In my opinion, I believe I did great requiring with my Welcome page, the header, the narrative for each design work. I did not had much time to finish the whole portfolio; subsequently that's the conflict that I been having.

Peer Review

           Thomas Bender's Portfolio. The welcome page is accurate but it has the header which includes the name, phone, e-mail, and website. It seems nice to me though. The main page is very improving because he has all of the work which are the following; Design Work, and Image Work. I believe he did an awesome job requiring his methods of work. The setup in his Design Work is improvingly better, he has the four folders. The color scheme is more appropriate and arranged very properly. In my opinion, I believe that Thomas Bender did a very excellent duty or job, and he had everything done as it was assigned to all of us.

How Content-Aware Scale helped to make a brochure?

         The video explained the concepts of the content aware scale. She showed the ways that the audience will would like it. Also, she showed me that on a regular paper, 8 inch to 11 inch, that I needed to make duplication in order to make it look nice. I believe, it's going to help my brochure by it's significance of duplication, it took me to the level that I could've do my brochure. The video  helped me because it had such as things as she contented aware scale, and the transformation.

Narrative Writings About Last Term

         The lab is Anti-Smoking; it highlights and demonstrates my skills with a satisfactory work because I used the tools from the InDesign program or application. Also I had some difficulties over the lab that I wasn’t able to do. But I hope to overcome during this semester based on each assignment. I couldn’t do excellent job with my lab and I want to do excellent job.

                    

         The Project number 3 is my most best or excellent job that I did over the last semester. The project demonstrates and highlights my skills because potential thing about it is I did everything in order. I did had some difficulties during the project but my teacher and friends influenced me with my conflict or work. They showed me how it was or the way.

                                                   

         This is project advertisement number one, although, we had to do in a group.  My highlights and demonstrates my skills by particular knowledge of how to set up advertisements in

InDesign. My difficulties were that I didn’t put any background color to my project. That was my influence and it got me upset. I hope that I would overcome my difficulties in this semester.

                                    

        This is a project that I did over the semester and it was extra credit to raise my grades at Visual Design class and pass. In this project advertisement number two, I did something wrong too. My difficulties were that I didn’t set up the background color. My potential is to pass this class.

                                           

        This is a project about advertising Program, Typing on the Path, was just we moved around things like letters. Then I did rectangular shape, ellipse shape, and polygon shape. The project demonstrates and highlights my skills by how am I corporate with the work or project. The advertisement project is really came out to be great and good style. The main part is the letter A. It is like what the audience will focus on the letter A because I did in script form, and it is in the middle in the polygon shape. I want to do better this semester and term is that I want to get better in designing pictures. Otherwise, then I am going to have my portfolio for the other class. Like the classes I am going to have in my future.
  

                                                   

Typing On the Path

I worked with InDesign to design my typing in the path. I designed it by doing or selecting the pen tool, type too, rectangle tool, ellipse tool, and polygon tool. I designed three shapes, I colored it and used the path tool to get the perfect work.