MC25A Week 2

Monday

Yeah so this week the real work began, and in all honesty everything we did paled in comparison to the class exercise we were required to do. we learnt about elements of design and how they can be applied in our own designs, we learnt about things such as colour, contrast, space. etc... after class i found an interesting website that discusses the same topic, the url is:
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/.
The thing that stood out for me in this class, (except for the fact that i was forced to draw) was the fact that simple things such as lines and shapes have a profound effect on your design. Shapes and lines can emphasize your point, or attract to a particular item. Contrary to my to what i believed text also plays an integral part in the design process, text contributes to the visual appeal of you work. At the end of the class we received our first graded assignment, i'll post that along with the "drawings" i did ASAP

Wednesday

Today we had a fun class, we were focusing on photo manipulation, therefore we were formally introduced to Mr. Photoshop, who is one of the most popular men in that particular field. We were taught the basics such as, selecting, moving and resizing images. I learnt a really neat trick to undo most not all ( i learnt the hard way) of your work done without a bag of clicking or pressing a bunch of keys, that is the history toolbar where you simply click up and your work is undone. We also played around with the brushes {i made grass :)}, the pen tools and we also did a little blending, we were told to do a collage and i did one with the brushes and with my siblings. Our lecturer Mr. Bain also allowed to to familiarize ourselves with photoshop and as a result i found out that photoshop wasn't as intimidating as i thought it was.