In order to prepare for creating projects using InDesign, I found three beginners tutorials that would help me learn how to use Adobe InDesign. Below are the three tutorials.
The first tutorial is called Learn Adobe InDesign in 9 minutes. The short video describes in depth the basic functions and tools that are contained in InDesign which include creating a new document, setting initial document preferences (i.e. title and units), and how to use Pages, Layers, and Paragraphs. After watching the video, I did not find any tools that would be hard to use as many of them are straight forward. InDesign would be a good tool to use to make posters or pages in magazines. InDesign sounds fun and I am exited to use it. The most interesting thing from the video was how to create pages and layers.
The second tutorial was called Adobe InDesign Tutorial for Beginners. The video was a little over 5 minutes. The short video showed how to create text frames, add images, add sidebar text, and how to use columns and margins in a new document. After watching the video, I found the tools to be easy and straightforward. The most interesting thing about the video is it had four different people demonstrate how to use Adobe InDesign.
The third tutorial is called Learn InDesign CC - Beginner Tutorial. The video was approximately 12 minutes long. Of the three tutorials, I found this tutorial the most helpful. The video showed how to create a new document and spent more time on the preset options where you set the file name, units, width & height, orientation, and facing pages. The most interesting thing about the video is the video gave a tour of workspace, menu bar, application bar, control pane, tools pane, and the document panels.
For the BW to COLOR project, I took one of my high school graduation pictures and using Photoshop, I changed the original picture into a black and white image. I created three different colorized versions by applying three different color palettes from color.adobe.com. From color.adobe.com, I choose the Double-Split Complimentary, Analogous, and Compound color palettes. It took me a total of 8 hours over a couple days to complete the project. My first colorized version follows the Double-Split Complimentary color palette. I chose this color version because I liked the colors blue and purple. Being my first version, I found it challenging to get the colors applied to the image. This version took me the longest; about 4 hours. For this version, I chose to make my hair blue and my jacket purple. For both the hair and jacket, I used Quick Selection Tool. The Quick Selection Tool made it easy to select the hair and jacket. My second colorized version follows the Analogous color palette. I...
The Self Portrait and Propaganda Poster Project had two parts. In Part 1, I took an original picture of myself and used Adobe Illustrator to create a self portrait using the Pen Tool in Illustrator. I chose one of my high school graduation pictures. I chose to create a cartoon image. I found the pen tool a little difficult to use for this project but, I got the hang of it after using it more. The most challenging part was tracing my eyes, glasses, and face. Original Self-Portrait In Part 2 of the Self Portrait and Propaganda Poster project, I created a vector illustration using my Self-Portrait and created a Propaganda Poster. I chose to follow the WW...
Raddmoses Crown Symbol In third grade, I created an imaginary world filled with dragons and other anthropomorphic beings as a coping mechanism for being bullied at school. This world has the main faction (the Raddmoses Kingdom) face off against other factions (Confederate Union, Dark Union, The Federation, Dragon Claw, and the Army’s of Gorgola) while also following the story of Iyon and Zouann (the 2 main characters). Each character is based on a person, emotion, or item from my life. In sixth grade, I started to put my imaginary world on paper and started writing my book called War of Dragons. War of Dragons is a Sci-Fi fantasy story about dragons with elemental powers who take down enemies. During the Raddmoses Civil War, Loyalists and loyalist militias would tag the walls of buildings on Confederate Union planets with the War of Dragons Kingdom Seal. Raddmoses Crown Symbol is the Kingdom seal, the seal for the crown of Raddmoses and a varia...
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