Dec. 19, 2014

Photoshop Tools

We learned  to use some basic Photoshop tools and then took the prelim exam online.

Jan. 16, 2015

Types of Logo

• Text based
• Emblem/Iconic
• Illustrative/Illustration
• a combination of two or three types

Characteristics of a good logo design

• Simple
• You can redraw it in the sand
• 2 colors or less (fewer colors means saving in the long run)
• From colored version - can be converted into black and White

Typography
Tracking - In typography, letter-spacing, usually called tracking by typographers, refers to a consistent degree of increase (or sometimes decrease) of space between letters to affect density in a line or block of text.
Leading - In typography, leading /ˈlɛdɪŋ/ refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type. The term originated in the days of hand-typesetting, when thin strips oflead were inserted into the forms to increase the vertical distance between lines of type. The term is still used in modern page layout software such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

In consumer-oriented word processing software, this concept is usually referred to as "line spacing" or "interline spacing."

Say No to Faux Bold!

Crisp - default in Photoshop.

Jan. 9, 2015

The Internet

     The history of the Internet begins with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of packet networking originated in several computer science laboratories in the United States, Great Britain, and France. The US Department of Defense awarded contracts as early as the 1960s for packet network systems, including the development of the ARPANET (which would become the first network to use the Internet Protocol.) The first message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock's laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at Stanford Research Institute (SRI).

The Web Browser

     A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.

Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems.

The major web browsers are Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, and Safari.

Image setting

-Baseline Standard
-Baseline Optimized
-Progressive
 

8-Bit to 64-Bit

1 bit is on & off
 8-bit = 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2
         = 256
RGB
      R = 256
      G = 256
      B = 256
 8-bit = 16.8M

Then we leaned to use different types of brush tool and turning images into a brush in Photoshop CS.

I used a picture of a cat and put some designs in all sides using Brush tools.