Showing posts with label Evison Kamau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evison Kamau. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Evison Kamau Assignment 4

What is your slogan?
That with adidas anything is possible.
Who is your target audience?
My target audience is whoever can afford adidas, parents buying them for kids and adults buying them for themselves. 


Which publications do you think the ad will be most successful running in?
Publications around the olympics and other magazines promoting discovery.  


Give the steps used in creating the ad using Photoshop? (How did you get your finished results)
All ads were created through the placing and altering of images. In order to do the first one 2 photos were placed with the second one being replicated across the top and the bottom while the 2nd was altered on a separate layer. The 2nd was created though the altering of the adidas label and replicating it under the london bridge. The last is a combination of two images with a simple text.  

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Evionn Kamau. Assignment 03

What is a book cover? 
A book cover is the face of the book, what the author sees before reading a single page. 
What is it used for? 
To tell potential buyers a little bit about the content of the book. 
What kind of information must be included on it? 
The book name, the authors name and images pertaining to the content of the book. 

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Evison.Kamau.Assignment 01

1. What is Photoshop?
Digital software that allows for editing of visual images.

2. List 10 things that you can do with photoshop.
View Images
Create Images
Alter Images
Painting and Drawing
 Animation
Typography
Graphic Design
Illustration
Visual Effects
Page Layout




3. Professions that would use Photoshop to complete their work.
Some professions that would use Photoshop include animators and visual effects producers.

4. Tool panel overview:

  • Name a type of selection tool
    • The Rectangular, elliptical, single row and single column are all selection tools. 
  • What does the move tool do and what is it's hot key?
    • The move tool allows you to move selected images and layers in Photoshop, the hot key is V.
  • What is the hot key for the eyedropper tool and what does that tool do?
    • The eyedropper allows you to select colors and move them to the foreground, the hot key is I. 
  • What does the eraser tool do?
    • The eraser tool is a way to fix or delete images from a canvas. 
  • What tool creates straight, angled, or radial gradients, what is it's hot key?
    • The gradient tool allows you to create straight, angled ad radial gradients, the hot key is G. 
  • When might you use the brush tool?
    • The brush tool can be used when trying to add color or create an image. 
  • What is the difference between vector and raster?
    • The difference between vector and raster is that a vector is made up of paths while a raster is made of pixels. 
  • What is the difference between aliased and anti aliased?
    •  Anti aliased is when edges are rough and jagged while anti aliased edges are smooth.