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Graphic Design Final

Infographic

This infographic was the one of the last projects we had to do this semester. We had to chose a topic and create an informational poster over it. The infographic had to include research we had found and graphics we made. A big challenge for me was, in the beginning, I didn't understand how to use the pen tool. I thought it was very confusing and hard to work with. Eventually I figured it out and used it to mostly trace graphics. Another hard part was creating the world. The green part of the world is the bast then everything else is just a layer on top of it. I had a hard time getting the edges to match up but did as best I could. For the final result it looks a little different from my final sketch up. At first I had to the words inside the earth but when I tried to do that on the computer It didn't look the way I wanted it to. So then I put it at the bottom cause I had a lot of empty space. Overall I feel like my infographic turned out well. I used my time appropriately and met deadlines. I would have to say this one is also my favorite because I got to do mostly what I wanted to do. 

Panorama

The panorama project was another favorite of mine. We had to chose 10 pictures that we took and put them together in a panorama. I chose pictures from when I went to Washington D.C. this summer. This project took about a week to complete. I restarted many times because it was hard to blend things together in the order I wanted. In fact that was the hard part about this project. Since I made my pictures black and white blending was hard because some pictures are lighter than others. Some feedback that my teacher gave me was to try making the opacities different to make it easier and it worked. One example is in the top right hand corner there are building but on top of that is a memorial dedicated to one of our former presidents. Overall I liked doing this project. I tend to like projects that I have more control over and get to express my own ideas. The panorama didn't take as long as previous projects had but this was pretty lengthy just because I started over. 

Fall leaves

This project we had to read a tutorial to learn the basics of using Adobe Illustrator. While learning how to use the software we made fall leaves. The fall leaves didn't take me that long to make. It took about 5 class periods. The hard part about this project was trying to create the maple leaf. I had to redo it several times because it would end up in a weird shape or ungrouped. That was what frustrated me the most about this project. I learned how to translate things, how to make things rigid and weird shapes. When I turned this in I didn't end up changing it because I thought it turned out pretty good. I don't usually redo things when we watch a tutorial over it. Overall I thought making the fall leaves was really fun and easy. It really prepared me for the other things we had to make in Illustrator. 

Summary

My favorite thing about this semester was learning how to create many different things. One thing out  of this semester one thing I would change is my time management skills. I need to prioritize my projects and stop talking as much in class. This is a goal I will definitely be working on next year. 


















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