Audacity

1. If you want to get music into audacity, go to project and import audio.
2. Project, new label track.
3. Remember to bring in earphones.
4. The dumbell tool is a time shift tool.
5. Selction tool is useful to select what to edit.
6. Envolope tool works by clicking mutiple times to add points which shrinks or enlarges the points.
7. The pencil tool zooms in the waves.

My iPod!

Drop Shadow

1. Put all layers into one folder, Ipod.
2. Make 2 duplicate folders of it, one for shadow and relection.
3. Shadow and relection folder and merge each of the folders to form one layer each.
4. Reflection, to get a reflection, you transform it, and flip it vertically, put a mask (use gradient or brush tool to reduce opasity and to make it look believeable).
5. Shadow, to make a shadow, ctrl click on the layer icon for the shadow, you fill it black, adjust the color or blur it, shrink it to a small size, and make sure it is behind the Ipod at the bottom.

Layer & Composition

There are 7 compositions:
1. Heirarchy means organizing things from most important to least important.
2. Focal Point means the most strongest point in a design (main point of emphasize).
3. Eye path means guiding the reader's eyes along a path.
4. Proportion means size of elements relative to one another.
5. Visual weight means the lightness or darkness of a colour.
6. Type as a visual element
7. Alignment (grid) means to align things up

Design with intention means to not place things on random spots without any thought into it. Use these tools to help guide the reader's eyes.
http://www.brusheezy.com/

My Car!

My Fruit Bowl!

Photoshop Notes

 To get an image on to another image, select the whole image, use the move tool and put it on the other image. Crl + T is to transform the image or shape of it. Zoom out if you can not see the handles to indicate a transform. Hold shift while using transform to make the transform equal. To finish tranforming the image, press enter. The shortcut to make your brush small/big, use square brackets. Use the hard brush for hard objects like a car. To blend in something use a soft brush with low opasity.

Photoshop Notes

1. To navigate, use spacebar or use grabber tool.
2. Default colors are black and white.
3. Sections are important to make the image appealing.
 

Photoshop Notes

 If you want to move layers at the same time, you can shift select them to move around with each other. If you want to edit the background layer, doudle click it and rename it. The shortcut to fill is the keys, alt and delete. To get a selection from another image, crl and click (click the little square on the layer). Name the layer to reduce confusion. Try to turn layers off to find problemes on the image.

Photoshop Notes (Drop shadow)

1. Use text tool.
2. Write your name.
3. Right click on the layer to rasterize it.
4. Drag the type to copy it (drag it to the bottom where the new layer is).
5. Lock the transparency.
6. Go to edit and fill with black.
7. Turn the lock off to blur it.
8. Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur.
9. Change oppasity.
10. Move shadow underneath the layer.
11. Make sure the shadow is at the bottom right.

Photoshop Notes (How to make Blapple)

1. Use quick selection tool to select background.
2. Use polygon lasso tool to select the stem.
3. Invert the selection.
4. Click on layer ajustment, and change hue/saturation.

Photoshop Notes

 First you need a selction (object), copy and paste the layer, or drag using the move tool to move a layer to another layer (background selection). In photoshop, they are eyes on your layers (icons) that shows if the layer can be seen or not. To create a shadow, you need to create a copy of your object, select it, lock the transparency, fill it in black, unlock it, then Gaussian Blur it. To get a selection back, ctrl key and click on the small picture on the layer.

Photoshop Notes

 Deselecting a selection is crl + d, to invert press crl + shift + I, and you can use the polygon tool to select for straight lines

Photoshop Notes

 In photoshop, you can save your selection. If you want to change the color you can go to image, ajustments, then hue selection. You may also zoom in your picture, spacebar will also be a shortcut, zoom- spacebar+crl, zoom out- spacebar+alt. If you want to add a section, shift, remove is alt.

Alex's Elements and Principles of Design Scrapbook

Below this post is a scrapbook containing the basic elements and principles of design in communications technology. Enjoy!
                                                                                                                    - Alex H.

Elements of Design

Line-

 A line is an element of design that could appear loose, free or sharp. It is an important element that outlines the shape of any picture. When these lines repeat, it usually creates an impression to people who look at it such as amazement, confusion, sadness, or no emotion at all. Some can appear abstract like the one above, or some can be clearly identify such as a maze. This image contains lines that are loose and are sharp. These lines also repeat as seen, to create a spiral shaped pattern which could also portray a confuse or moody emotion.

Shape-

 A shape is usually a contained, geometric area that can be defined very easily once looked upon. Some examples of basic shapes could be a square, a circle, a rectangle, a triangle or a rhombus. Usually many designers try to make up shapes that they create to draw attention rather than an ordinary circle. These shapes could be abstract and could look very appealing or ugly and could have psychological meaning. The image above is a smoking restriction sign. The outer shape of it is a circle. Notice that the circle with the slash in the middle emphasizes, "No smoking!", that is its psychological meaning.

Texture-

 Texture is a term used to describe how an image will look or how it feels when touched upon. Different patterns on the texture of an image could explain the roughness or smoothness of the image. The image above is a plate of metal. As seen above, there are some sort of patterns on the metal plate. If you were to imagine rubbing your fingertips on the plate, it would feel hard and irritating like scratching a chalkboard.

Color-

 Color is used in everything. Without color, it would be dull, boring and not as entertaining like the old t.v.'s. Color attracts attention, and almost all colors have a psychological meaning. The above image is a heart that is red. Most people would say that red mostly associates to love and romance, but there are also more meanings than that. For one, it could symbolize a source of energy, happiness or good health. Some cultures (i.e. the Chinese) believe that it is the color of good luck.

Principles of Design

Harmony-

 Harmony is when colors or elements go together or are compatible with each other. Such examples are red and orange, or green and yellow. Harmony is easily associated to the color wheel. It shows what colors go well together, and how colors are formed. Example, between red and orange is the color red-orange. This also means that red and orange go well together especially in the mixing part.

Rhythm-

 Rhythm is when there is a repeating element or when something appears to be in motion. Rhythm can be very appealing if used with an element. Example, if you just continuously drew straight lines on a piece of paper in rows, it would probably be dull, also it would not even look as though it would be in motion. The image above is a very good example of rhythm. It portrays smooth looking desert hills due to the continuous smooth lines that are drawn. If you look closely, you may even see that it may look like it is being moved by the wind.

Proportion-

 A term used to describe the size and the comparison to another image itself is proportion. Proportion has something to do with size, but it is only meaningful if it is being compared to something else. For example, the image above has 2 cartoon characters. Notice that one of them is taller and the other shorter. Even their physical appearance are not really the same as well. One of them has longer legs and bigger muscles, while the other has short legs and small muscles.

Emphasis-

 Emphasis is basically finding a focal point of an image. Usually the focal point of the image emphasizes the importance of the image. If there are too many focal points, than the image itself may have no meaning at all because it is difficult to associate different meanings. An example of emphasis is the image above. The milk on top of that castle tells us that milk can make anything seem bright especially on a dark place. This image is from an advertisement that wants to tell consumers that milk promotes healthy living.

Symmetrical Balance-

 Symmetrical balance has to do mainly with being equal. It makes an image or object seem perfect, stable, and balanced. The image above is a picture of a famous building known as the Taj Mahal. This building is known as one of the wonders of the world due to its precise symmetrical balance it processes. As seen above, if it were to be cut in half, each piece would be the same or symmetrical.

Asymmetrical Balance-

 Asymmetrical balance is similar to symmetrical balance in way. The image is also balanced but they need to be placed to correlate each other. The image also can not be placed too randomly on the image because then the image will not be balanced. The image above shows asymmetrical balance because the image is balanced but they are not exactly the same. One side seems heavier while the other seems lighter due to the window. Also, one side seems solid, and the other side with the window seems fragile.