Eames Cards

I have decided to do my theme over my neice Makenzie. I edited 10 pictures and added purple to it, I picked a few that already had purple because late a night, I just ran out of ideals of what to do w/ them.  Ill add a few of them here so u can have an ideal of what I did.

Chapter 7

3. Question – How can texture be used to simulate a surface?

Answer – You can use texture to simulate a rock wall in a cave, or something else in the world.

5. Question – What are filters in imagaing software applications?

Answer – Filters are something designer use to alter the way an image looks.

6. Question – What are some common issues with filters that should be avoided?

Answer – Some issues are over using the preset filters or using to many filters in on image.

7. Question – How can the scale of a texture affecet an image?

Answer – The scale of a texture can make some things look way smaller or to large than what there supposed to. Some things might also get lost in the texture.

Chapter 5 & 6

Chapter 5

3. Question – Can shape alone give enough visual information to allow for the indentification of an object?

Answer – I would say yes, you dont even need complete shapes to make something stand out. You could just smuge some charcoal around and not even make shapes and be able to identify something.

5. Question – Can the parts of an image be mentally grouped together through shape association?

Answer – Yes, Say you have a picture of the sky at night. In your mind, you would most likely group stars together and the moon would be in its own lonely group.

Chapter 6

4. Question – What is chiaroscuro?

Answer – The use of light and dark in the rendering of an image to create th illusion of depth in three dimensions.

9. Question – What is contrast?

Answer – The difference between elements based on principles of design, such as light and dark or color, (there is a high amount of contrast between two areas of a circle that are black and white).

AMONIX.NET – Almost up!!

Amonix.net is almost back up and running, click here , check it out; There is a new login system, if you had a user account it is no longer there, i deleted sql database, its all gone, just make a new account, have fun!  movies pg almost finished, prob by end of next week..i hope?

New background will be added next week also, check back often! link

PS Filters

Make at least three images with Photoshop Filters as demonstrated in class. Place the three images onto a web page, and label each image with the type of filter used.

Here are some images I managed to filter up:

Filters used: Clouds, Poster edges, I can’t remember what all i put on the right girl.

Filters used: LOTS! well, i guess not 2 many jus some on the shirt, pants, and hair. The face is all plain colors jus spots of diff colors blurred around and what not, I kind of lost interest top right of forehead. idk if its that noticeable?

Filters use: well, i dont really remember, i did most of that in class, shirt, background, face, necklace, they all got something different, my neck is real, so are eyes and teeth.

Charcoal Drawing

Yesterday in class we did this charcoal drawing thing. Was rather fun, I sucked at it as you can see below, but it helped show lights and darks. Anyways…Check it out.

Trace

Hey, today in Visual Litercy we had to trace some images using computer software; We had to do 2 images, I chose these 2 (look below).  The software used was Photoshop and Flash. We also had to do one with a pencil.

About Abstraction Visit

Today the Visual Literacy class im taking went down the the art museum, it was pretty neat, all kinds of stuff in there paintings stuff made from wood. We had to do a drawing thing with lines and our hands; Outline your hand and draw things that you like in it with lines. Anyways heres what i did:

Negative Stool Drawing

Instructions:

Create a negative space vector drawing from the sketch of the stool made in class on 9-10-07. It should have only solid color shapes against a solid white background. The solid shapes should show the negative space that surrounded the stool.

Make this image no smaller than 350 px on any given dimension.

Format the image for viewing on the web in either a .gif or .png format. Post image to your blog & provide me the URL to the post.

The Work:

Chapter 2

1 ) Q. What are the three phases of the design process?

A. Information Phase, Interaction Phase, and The Presentation Phase.

2 ) Q. What is the significance of determining the target audience? How can the target audience influence the other parts of the design?

A. It’s important to know who your audience and end user is so you know how the layout works and how to put it all together; Younger people are going to be looking for a more flashy site and older people and business people will look for somethign more to the point, won’t care as much for the flashey’ness.

3 ) Q. What are the two tests to determine if a certain piece of content should be included?

A. Does it have a purpose and will it be used.

4 ) Q. Name a concept from the section “Designing Navigation with the Viewer in Mind.”

A. Make it Understandable

5 ) Q. Why are the entrance and exit of a project important?

A. Because you can’t start slow, or with out a point to what your doing and have a good end project come out of it.

6 ) Q. Define a layout as it aplies to a new media project.

A.  The visual arrangement of the content and navigation areas on each page of the project.

7 ) Q. What is a prototype?

A. A prototype is like a test site, you would use it to say, change the code for live shipping, you would change it on the test site and test it there, if it works then go to the live site.