Illustrator CS5

In the video Getting Started-What is Illustrator CS5 is talks about how its use to design graphics. It shows efficient ways to design graphics using the design tools. Illustrator is useful for any kinds of graphics. You could always scale your graphics into any size you wish it to be and vector graphics will always look clean, sharp and its will never lose detail in the graphics. It will not show the pixels. Illustrator could import and export many different kinds of graphics file formats. In Illustrator you can use cross media design. Illustrator could be use by many different kinds of people even though you are not a design and they help create your graphics with the tools that are available.
          In the second video was called Creating Files for Print. In this video it explains to us how to get started in Illustrator. It shows us how to use a print file. It shows all your options in creating your print file for example it said that you could name your file, change the number of art boards, change the width or height in any measurements and it converts automatically by clicking the Tab key, and you could change your size either letter or legal etc. You could change the orientation of the layout either landscape or portrait. In the video is says that we could use the bleed option. Bleed is a term that is often use for artwork that is beyond the actual trim size. It is helpful to see that there would be no white gaps when you are printing. You also have advance options which are color mode, pixel, and preview mode. You could change those settings as well.

Lab p7_Jennifer toledo

Nameplate- It is the banner that is in front of the newsletter. It usually holds the newsletter name, graphic or logo. It usually is horizontal in the top and front of the newsletter
Content (and number of articles and entries)- It is the information that forms the newsletter.
Table of Contents- It is a list of different chapters or articles and its has the page in where each of them start
Masthead- It is more likely found in the second page but it could also be found in any page and it a list names of the publishers name and other information.
Title and headers-
Page Number- It is a method that is use to number your pages
Bylines-it is the name of the reporter that wrote it. It is mostly found in the top of the article
Continuation Lines- There are two different types of continuation lines which are jumplines and continuation heads.  They are lines that help the reader find their place in where they left out and find the rest of the article
Pull Quotes- it is a catchy quote to pull the reader into the article
End Signs-Its is something or marks that show the end of a story in a newsletter. It helps the reader that they have finished.
Photos/Illustration-
Mailing Labels-

Peer Review- Shabeli

     Her brochure was about a yoga program. She did a great job. The colors of her brochure are pink as a background and white as the text. I think you should of change the color of the text to a darker color so it could be better and make it more visible for the costumers. The brochure layout was good everything seem to be in the proper place. You could of use a different colors  that were similar to pink so it could catch the audience attention.
      You could could of used more pictures because people seem to be more visual. It seem that the length of text was good. All pictures seem to relative to your brochure. The brochure seem to have alignment. I notice she did not have a logo of the company or program if it did have she should of added. I think she did a great job.
    

Peer Review

Overall I think Sinyi Portfolio is very nice. The welcome page is very creative. It was a picture that I would of   never have thought to put it but it was not a bad idea. I also like the color of the welcome page. I think that it is good that she placed her flow chart to show the people how your PDF portfolio is set up. I think she should of put the folder first instead of the narratives. I also see that she placed the narratives separate at the beginning. She also  placed them with the project or lab the narrative corresponded to and she did not have to write them at the beginning as well. 

I notice she do not have your labs. I think that color scheme is good and I like it. The ten pictures we had to take outside are some what pixelated.If she had finish her PDF Portfolio I would of gave her a 90. I like that fact she had her contact information and how to reach her because that is important for the reader to know.

Photoshop Magic Content Aware Scaling

In the video I just watched Photoshop Magic Content Aware Scaling it will help us in the our brochure. In the video it talked about how to make our images more proportional and it would it will look more professional. It would help me make better brochures for our project because the picture will be more clear and more eye catching rather than any other pictures. It would make our brochures look more professional and show that we could be designers. This will also make our brochures look better and it could scale the image better. When you do this it will most affect the background and not the most important part of the picture

Narratives

Jennifer Toledo

Visual Design

Period: 8

      Project #1- Collage
 In project, one is my collage. My collage was about me.  It was about all the things that are important to me and things that describe me. We could only use pictures we took on our own. In our visual design class we could of done any kind of collage, it had to be creative as well. We had to at least had thirty pictures and we only had three to four days in class to do it. After that, our classmates criticized it and gave us feedback on what to improve and what we did well.

                  

Project #2- Logo

In this project, we created our own logo. This project as well as the others we had to use our own pictures or create our own using Photoshop. We could make a logo for anything that we would like. My logo was something that would represent Cross Country. I did the logo only using the shape tool, text tool, and the colors. Like every other project the class saw it and judged it and commented in our project.

                

  Project #3- Business Card

In this project, it is difference instead of using Photoshop we had to use another program called InDesign. We made our own business card like if were business workers. We before analyzed other business card before we did ours. We use text and our pictures to create it.  We had three days and we had to add all the elements in a business card.

                 

Project#4-Advertisment

This is our fourth project and we had to make an advertisement. Our teachers gave us iteams we had to advertise. They were the black box, yellow ball, and the red star. We had to be creative and make them anything we wanted to and make an advertisement.  Mine was the black box and it was magical. It turned into a housewife and did all the things a housewife did. At the end of our project we presented it to the class.

                 

Lab 1_P1- In lab one our class went outside to take pictures of anything you could see. You needed to have to at least ten pictures. After that we had to add the color effects on to every picture we took. You had to keep one picture normal and the other one with the effects and they had to be the folder to keep them organized.

                

  Lab #2_P1-  In this lab we had to use paint brush, pencil, mixer brush,  specialty brush tips, and the pattern stamp tool and we used it to make random things to see how that brush works. We wrote on name and saw the different between them.

                 

Lab 3- In this lab we used to pictures to show the effects of different kinds of filters. I did liquify, water color, and film grain, solarize, smart blur, and the glass filter. We saw how the affected the picture. The background I changed to a cloud effect.

               

   Lab 4- In this lab we had to use different shapes and we had to insert text inside that shape. We could of also written outside the shape. We used a scissor shape to write almost around the shape. this helped us to make our advertisement for our company.

                

  Lab P4_1- This lab was an advertisement to bad habits teenagers have. I decided to make a advertisement about underage drinking alcohol.  I wanted to make it stand out to grab that person attention and by grabbing their attention I used bright eye catching colors rather than dark and dull colors.

                 

      In class we use shapes and lines to write text in the path of that shape or text. The text tool and the pen tool are going to be useful in our project. It will help us be more creative and make everything in the project look better instead of everything look like boxes. We could use the direct selection tool to and grab the anchor point and move the shape. In the shape, line, or curve we could write text around it. It could be very useful and make our project look nice.