I have recently made another blog post about my first time using Adobe Illustrator. Those thoughts are old and no longer apply to me at the moment. I have gotten used to how Illustrator works and can used most of the learned tool pretty well.
Some tools I have enjoyed using are the mesh tool and the shape tool. The mesh tool can make small highlights on images. We used it to place yellow and brown highlights onto the hamburger buns. We also used it to highlight other images like the lettuce and cheese. I like that it make you look your doing some incredible work of art but, in reality you're just clicking a few buttons on a screen. It also makes it look more appealing and detailed to me. I have previously expressed my frustrations with the shape tool in other blog post, I now have an understanding of how to use it properly. I now know how to merge spaces and get rid of overlapping lines. I just needed so more practice with is all. I guess one thing I was struggling with eas with the gradient tool. I was used to using it in Adobe Photoshop as I thought is would similar to how it is used in Illustrator. I was very wrong. Or maybe I just didn't lioknin the right places. I don't think I look at the properties while I was using it. I wanted to make the gradient into a circle but I didn't know how. I think if I look back it on Tuesday or Wednesday I figure it out. In summary:
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Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program that allows users to create logos, cartoons, etc. This week, we started to use this program for the first time. It's going to take me so time for me to get used to using but I'll soon enough get the hang of it.
The first time opening up the program was overwhelming. There are so many tools on the toolbar. Also the thumbnails for the tools are very small so I couldn't really see them. I also had trouble using the shape building tool. It's so easy to use which led to me accidentally making shapes over and over again. I found it hard to find certain things. I did not know where to find the color swatches but I did end up finding it on my own. Sometimes I think I need to go explore the program to find some new tools and techniques. I still don't how to make line intersect or overlap. That part is confusing to me and I don't know what to do. All the things you can do with text in the program are amazing. I wish I could have been able to do them in Photoshop. You can make the text go in a spiral or around a rounded rectangle. It is a lot easier to size the text in this program that in Photoshop. In Photoshop, you have to highlight the text and type in the size number but here you can just click and drag a corner to you liking. In conclusion:
Adobe Photoshop has a large variety of tools available for use in its program. We have learned how to use a few of them in class in recent days. Some of them were highly used and incredibly useful while the others were less favorable in my opinion. My favorite tool to use is the spot healing brush. The tool is very simple and extremely easy to use. It makes it look like you doing very intense work but in reality you are simply clicking over a spot to remove it. It is also very useful for editing pictures. You can save someone from embarrassment by editing out their disgusting acne. The use of the tool, if done correctly, is very unnoticeable even when you zoom in very closely. In the photos below, you can the changes I have made to the photo using the spot healing brush. I believe that the most useful technique we learned is how to fix the exposure of an image. I have least five photos that I have taken that have bad exposure. Sometimes, we don't have to time or skills to fix the lighting in area we are in. It is easier to be able to take a photo anywhere and not worry about it being too dark or too light. The photoshop program can take your worries away and fix your photos so you can post them. The two images below so the magic Photoshop has done to the original picture (I also used the spot healing brush on these pictures as well). In conclusion:
Photoshop is a tool used by many different types of digital artists that allows photo editors to adjust pictures. It is used in professional settings and as well as personally. But, it has earned a negative stigma in magazines. I believe that it is well earned. Not all photos in magazines are edited to look like the "peak of perfection" though.
Editing, for the most part, is use to fix things in photos. Maybe you take a photo on your phone and the brightness is too high. Photoshop can take that problem off of your hands. It can also help you to edit things out of your photo. This can help if cropping the picture isn't possible. The editing of models in magazines are the main focus of the negative stigma in Photoshop. Models are usually edited to look like "perfect" human beings. They are maybe edited to be slimmer, have brighter skin, clear skin, or have little to no wrinkles. The people who read magazines are usually female teenagers and adult women. This creates the dilemma that teenagers are being pressured to look more slim. Teens girls are more likely to develop eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia. Like in the video, the women feel like the edited picture of themselves is a different person. The edited photos of models look very different from the original photo. To summarize this blog post:
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AuthorI plan on learning the skills of Digital Design and Animation this year. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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