Before I started the Digital Graphics Assignment I had quite a good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and had used the program at home to create and edit various Images. It’s something I have always found quite enjoyable and I believe that my knowledge of the software before hand helped me on the various projects I was given while doing this unit. I had never used InDesign, though I found it not to hard to learn and the tutorials we were given helped me to complete the work fine with no errors. I would say that I was above average on knowledge of the software before starting this unit and that helped me greatly.
The exercise I have learnt the most from would be creating my Album Cover. From this I’ve learnt many more techniques which include the blending tool, resizing various images with the free transform tool and adding various effects to enhance my final piece. I spent lots of time on creating my album cover and manually had to create and edit the various images which I used on the final product.
I have learnt loads about file formats while doing this unit and learnt what output to save my final pieces, what output is the best for High Quality images and what the best format is for uploading images on to my blog. One piece of knowledge I have learnt about file formats is what file type you need to save for animated images and what quality you need to save it for uploading onto your blog, for example my animated web banner needed to be saved as a Gif to be animated and easily viewed on my blog.
From all the tasks I have done on this assignment I think that my Album Cover looks the most effective it looks professional and hits the target audience which is heavy metal rock fans with an alternative style. I believe this makes the band successful by having a eye catching front cover with a interesting gothic style theme this catches the eye and will make the buyer want to see more. I called my band Epiphany which is a meaningful word and has a lot of effect on the reader. The Asian style theme to my band was chosen as I wanted to do something slightly alternative and different to give a interesting feel to it which made creating the band more enjoyable and fun.
Looking over all my products created in this unit I believe the one I could improve or spend more time on would be the Newspaper front cover. I think I could make the layout more effective and add more information regarding the news and latest stories. I would also include adverts on the front cover to give it a more realistic feel as after finishing the piece I realized that it didn’t include any.
Overall I believe I have learnt an awful lot while doing this assignment and the skills I have learnt could easily be used in future assignments or a job role such as a graphic designer or web designer. I will continue to use Adobe Photoshop outside of college to enhance and learn more about the program and hopefully the skills I have learnt will come to use in the future.
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