Thursday, October 9, 2014

My Logo

This is my logo. It is a simple green logo with an arrow. My name is a dark green over the gradient arrow and it also has a drop shadow. It shows that I am always moving forward. I began with an awkward logo that was still green but was not flowing. In order to make it flowing I used the gradient and drop shadow tool. I don't know if the gradient is too much for the logo, though. I have better skills in photoshop and illustrator now, these skills would allow me to create a much better logo.

Photoshop Projects

First Project
This is our first photoshop project. It is a photo of the school with the school compass and initials faded over it. In order to create this project, I had to change the brightness and contrast of the picture and used the opacity slider to make the text partially transparent as I did with the compass.
Second Project
This is our second photoshop project. It is a photo of a monarch butterfly with different colored wing sections, the wings are also fluttering. In order to create this I had to use a selection tool to select the different sections and then change the hue of the sections. To make the wings flutter I had to use the clone tool and make the clone semi-transparent.
 Third Project
This is the third project we did in graphic design. It is a gradient from black to blue and back to black with a mask of northwest over the gradient made out of a picture of the school. To do this we had to create a text mask over the school and select the inverse of the text, it was then filled using the gradient tool.
Final Project
This final project is a photo of the school with four different places from the school and the raven logo placed over it semi-transparently. In order to create this combined photograph, I had to use the content-aware fill and clone tools to remove unwanted objects. I also used a mask to fade the edges of the other pictures and made them partially transparent. I then flattened the entire image and placed a mask over it, then I created the faded edge by coloring in the outside of the mask black.