Assignment 14: Email Newsletter

Learning how to use old school Dreamweaver techniques.

I used the materials given and Dreamweaver/Photoshop CS6

This one got slightly frustrating just because I would accidentally place the cursor one spot over and things wouldn't show up, once I realized my mistakes it went smoother. :)

Assignment 13: Content management

The point of the assignment was to learn how to use a content management system like WordPress.

I of course did this one on my dog Luna, who is a pitbull and the sweetest animal in the world, plus I had a ton of pictures of her, so it made it easy. I chose the Sema theme for the WordPress site and used a photo of Luna as the header which I cropped in Photoshop.

I thought this one was fairly easy and I enjoyed putting it together.

Below is a link and a screen shot of the blog.

https://shellybz86.wordpress.com/

Assignment 12: Sliced Webpage

The point of the assignment was to create a webpage that was put together seamlessly with slicing in Photoshop. I went for something simple but with a spring feel, because....why not?

I first made a background, put some eggs, numbers and text on, merged a few layers and then started using the cutting tool. I cut mine into three sections. The left "egg link" section, the header that says Well, Hello there! and the right bottom section with the huge white box. I then put them into Dreamweaver using divs and floating tools to create the seamless look.

I had a fun time with this one, but when I went to the navbar generator to give the eggs a drop shadow effect when clicked, it wouldn't allow me to make the rollover, just the normal state....hmmm not sure why???

Other than that not working, I think it went well.

Assignment 11: Slam Cover

I had fun with this one and it took a long time but I think it was worth it. My goal was to do a fun rendition of Vincent Van Gogh's self portrait. I wanted to do something graphic with a painter feel.

I used Photoshop mostly and was pretty close to 20 layers by the end, I didn't use any other program in this one. I made a second one and imported it into illustrator and did some fun effects on it and used the inner glow effect on the background.

Also for some reason blogger is saying that my folio JPGs need to images or videos and will not upload. I did one folio is a paintbrush and one (because I have a horrible sense of humor) is an ear ;) but I promise they are finished and will be on the mDrive

Assignment 10: Shape animation

For this assignment I wanted to create something fun and eye-catching, while playing around with shapes.

I first made a few shape layers and added in effects to colorize them and make them move how I wanted to, this was done in Adobe After Effects. Once I was done and rendered, I transferred it to Premiere Pro to put in royalty free music from Incompetech.com and a couple transitions.

I really had fun with this one and can't wait for some free time to explore what else I can do with just shapes in After Effects!

Assignment 9: Thematic Text

Before

After

For this assignment the point was to animate the text to look like whatever word you chose.

I used Photoshop to make individual masks on each letter and then a paintbursh to get rid of flat edges and make the letters look more fluid. I exported for web as PNGs and imported them into Adobe Edge Animate. I then made buttons, used coding, clipped the photos and saved all of my work.

I had fun with this one, but I think picking something like silk was a little difficult. I also probably should have did a lighter background or a lighter color silk so that it was easier to see. I really enjoyed the assignment though.

:)

Assignment 8: Graphics tablet drawing

The object of the assignment was to draw something on a graphics tablet that wasn't just a one tone color.

I basically just took the pen on the tablet and doodled while using Photoshop.

I liked this one because I could do whatever and however I wanted to do it. Made it fun and simple.

Assignment 7: Galleria

Shelly Bz's photo gallery

Here you can check out my photo gallery of the Dominican Republic.

I had an issue with my page saving as the theme name so that was pretty frustrating, guess it could be worse. I'm not a huge Dreamweaver fan, which is what I did the page in so I was banging my head against the desk for the weekend........ I also created my own header in Photoshop, which I do like lol.