Jacoby's Journeys

*** Green background-Complementary  *** Pink background- Analogous  *** Blue background- Triad So for my black and white image to color I decided to do a triad color theme, analogous color theme and a complementary color theme. I will say this I spent over 8 hours on this project, so to say the least I definitely struggled a bit. The hardest part for me was getting past the idea that photoshop and illustrator are not the same thing and the tools are not the same. As someone who has never used either software prior to this class, I associated them with one another, therefore I thought the tools were similar and did the same thing. After doing this project, I found out that this was not really the case and the two programs are very different. With that being said, I did spend a lot of time on this project, I don't necessarily think that this is my best work I have ever created but given the amount of time I put into it, I truly don't think that I ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFyOznL9UvA I chose this video because, it was extremely informative as well as detail oriented. I got a good overview of photoshop as well as learned a basis of understanding from the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAmSB5MQxOo I chose this tutorial because it is short and sweet and to the point. It gave a good basis of understanding in the easiest way possible. It was easy to digest and understand as someone who has no prior knowledge of photoshop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxcIn8L__w I chose this video because it really gave me a better understanding of the layers portion of photoshop. It taught me that layers is one of the most important aspects of photoshop and it is crucial to understand layers to do well in photoshop.

For my tag print assignment I decided to go with just the simple primary colors and what not. I thought since this was my first time ever using photoshop I would stick to the basics, and keep everything pretty simple so I could really learn the basics on how photoshop works. With that being said, I had a few difficulties doing this assignment. For some reason my computer was not cooperating at all with me and decided to completely disregard everything I was telling it to do, so I lost a good portion of my work and then had to restart. Overall, I think I did a decent job on this project considering it was my very first time ever using photoshop. I definitely could have used some help at times, but with that being said, after a bit of time I figured out what I needed to do on my own. This project definitely gave me a couple headaches along the way, but I am glad I was able to do it on my own.

For my poster I decided to depict myself as a spokesperson for this country. As we all know America and the world is under a grave amount of stress and possibly danger. This corona virus outbreak has caused so much disrupt and damage to every day life; businesses closing, children and college students staying home from school, and everyone engaging in this so called act of "social distancing." I am well aware that this pandemic is serious, but people have begun to lose their humanity. Panic shoppers rushing to the stores to buy everything off the shelves, travel bans, and so much more. I am truly sorry that we as people have to endure such a terrible time right now, it sometimes feels like there is no hope and we have lost everything that makes us feel human and even feel alive. We are no longer allowed to go to restaurants, bars, movie theaters, I can't even find my favorite flavor of Ice cream on the shelves. I only hope that this pandemic will be...

For this project I wanted to do something that is an everyday item that anyone could find in their home. I looked around my kitchen and immediately found a banana. I thought, "a banana is perfect, I eat banana's all the time!" I then thought banana bread is my all time favorite treat. So I thought a banana could not be more perfect. That's is what made me realize I should make a banana. There wasn't much thought put into choosing the item other than that. At the end of the day I think I did a really good job on this banana. I am very proud of how it turned out actually. I think it looks very realistic and is almost exactly like the picture I based it off of. If there is one thing I think I could improve, it would be that I wish I put a little bit more detail into the stem of the banana. I tried to do this but I had a really hard time with the gradient mesh tool cooperating so I just decided to give up on that and focus more on the highlights of the banana. T...

Before I started my logo I had a really difficult time determining what exactly my logo should look like. Narrowing down specific aspects of my personality that make me, me was extremely difficult. In order to help me figure this out I had to ask several of my family members and friends to describe me in 3 words. The most common words that came up were: happy, fun, and friendly. I took those three adjectives and ran with them, to create my personal logo. I decided to go with a friendly and happy face to showcase happiness and friendliness, with a colorful hair symbolizing my fun loving characteristic.   I think I did a pretty good job on this project. If I would have done anything else to make it better, I probably would have changed the face a bit. I would have made it a bit more complex and not just simple lines. Other than the face I was pretty satisfied with my logo as a whole. I tried to make the logo as simple and appealing to the eye as possible, since I knew th...