Assignment 1,Holmes

1. What is Photoshop?

A graphic design program

2. List 10 things that you can do with Photoshop.

Paint

Transform

Edit

Draw

Crop

Sharpen

Blur

Lighting Effects

Shadowing

3. Professions that would use Photoshop to complete their work.

Game Designers

Graphic Designers

4. Tool panel overview:

    Name a type of selection tool

         Lasso tool

    What does the move tool do and what is it's hot key?

         Moves selected images - V

    What is the hot key for the eyedropper tool and what does that tool do?

         I

        Samples colors and allows you to use those color.

    What does the eraser tool do?

         Erases

    What tool creates straight, angled, or radial gradients, what is it's hot key?

         Gradient tool - G

    When might you use the brush tool?

         Freehand drawing

    What is the difference between vector and raster?

         Vector is geometric, raster is pixel

    What is the difference between aliased and anti aliased?

         Aliased is sharp, anit is blurred

Assignment 08,Christopher Holmes

I found I liked the second one done both ways so I posted it twice.

Assignment 07, Christopher Holmes

Assignment 06, Christopher Holmes

Here's the ad, and "It's good"

Christopher Holmes, Assignment 05

Class was fun.

Christopher Holmes, Assignment 04

What is your slogan?

 For my first ad I chose to do Spider-Man and so decided on the slogan "Be Amazing" as this is his tag line in the current movie. For the second Iron-man and from his tag line the slogan "Be Invincible" and for the third of the Hulk, "Be Incredible".

Who is your target audience?

With this ad campaign the audience is both comic fans as well as the general movie goer. These groups has a wide range of age groups (from kids, teens, as well as adults) and  would mean a much larger market for the product.

Which publications do you think the ad will be most successful running in?

These ads could go in many of the same places the movie ads would meaning general magazines, comic books, or even as posters in the theaters themselves that show the movies staring these characters.

Give the steps used in creating the ad using Photoshop? (How did you get your finished results?) 

I began by choosing the characters in signature poses than placed classic Adidas shoes on them and warped and re-sized to them to fit the character's pose.  After that I tinted or recolored them to match the character's color scheme. I then put a poster filter over the image for a grittier, old comic book look.  Finally I added slogan text and company logo.

Christopher Holmes, Assignment 03

What is a book cover?

a books binding and protection

What is it used for? 

 An image on the outside of a book can show what the book is about

What kind of information must be included on it?

title, author

Christopher Holmes, Assignment 02