East Side Soph

  I have learned so much about all of the features available in the Photoshop application through 21st Century Ed. Mainly, I've gotten to perfect some of my already existing skills with graphic design, while also learning how to do certain designs and edits more efficiently. I think the most useful part from 21st Century Ed were the projects they had us do because the hands-on application of what I learned through videos and diagrams helped me to remember what I was actually learning. I really enjoyed the freestyle projects we had as well because the freedom to create my own design and purpose for the design was the most fun. I hope that I'm able to continue to explore graphic design in college and apply what I've learned in the digital world to other art forms and/or occupations. 

 To create this last name image, I first made my custom guitar and record stamp. I knew that I wanted the image to showcase something extremely important to me, so I chose music as the driving theme. After carefully placing my custom stamps, I started assembling a unique color palette to use across the image; starting with solid colored squares between the guitars and then using a blend of those solid colors on the guitars in the shape of a triangle. I wanted the picture to have an overall feeling of harmony while still staying away from too much repetition. I also included a small circle inside one of the records with a pre-made photoshop pattern for some added interest. I finished with typing my name in my custom gradient and choosing a looping, musical-note-like font.

 To create my college decisions poster, I found a side profile view of a woman thinking, selecting and inverting the image so I could isolate just her frame and fill it with a black color. Now that I had a simple outline to work with, I inserted a small brain to add a little bit of color before working on creating the background. I knew I didn't want anything too busy or flashy, so I went for a simple gradient using purple and yellow. Then, I started searching up pngs of different college logos, making the left side contain all the colleges I'd applied to, and the right contain all the ones I had been accepted into. 

      I throughly enjoyed getting to work with photoshop this marking period. I feel like overall the software has become less intimidating and confusing to use and I'm starting to visualize all the possibilities photoshop has to offer. I really like using layer masks and selecting the subject to help layer different images over each other. I also like learning how to use different fill properties to change the color of the images I decide to use. I think it's also incredibly useful to learn how to use the text properties in photoshop because that's one of the key aspects of graphic design. Working on multiple text tutorials and my own climate change poster was a lot of fun and I hope that my future career has some components of graphic design and digital art. My favorite project was the album cover by far. I loved using the star chart in the background and having the text curve around the rounded stars :) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UmlQM84pL-P61fW84hhBqx0hKJZ7

Selfie Collage:  A collage featuring me, my school schedule, and different artistic projects that embody  my personality Valentines Day Mandala: A fun Valentines day project that I created in photoshop. It was nice getting to freehand draw and make something pretty for Valentines day :) Climate Change Poster:  A poster fighting against climate change. Bold, crisp, and straightforward  Wallpaper:  My name with a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure background. One of my favorite show's combined with my name :) Free Poster Project:  A poster for my band with my uncle. We recently wrote a song, Polaris, and this poster features it  

       Multimedia is the use of a computer to combine a variety of media into a cohesive and purposeful arrangement. Multimedia is an art form, and it forces the artist to shift into a unique perspective and look for creative ways to combine images, links, text, videos and even audio to immerse the viewer into an artistic experience. The whole purpose of multimedia is to encourage both the artist and the viewer to interact and input their own ideas. Communication is the core interest of multimedia, and with an increasingly technological world, any opportunity to connect with one another should be invested in.      Artists who work in multimedia will often use a software called Adobe Photoshop to create their pieces. Photoshop is a powerful program that can do almost anything when it comes to editing images. At its most basic, Photoshop can cut objects out of images, change their size and even change their brightness. At a more advanced level, Photoshop enables the user to layer images