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Technology reflection

Design:What we learned about designing posters during class was about contrast, rule of thirds, repetition, alignment and proximity. We also learned about how to make a successful blog by using the background and choosing suitable colors for it. We learned that some things such as contrast, repition and such did not work for all  posters. We learned that each color represents or makes people feel a different emotion, like red makes you hungry etc.

What we learned

Attitude: I think i was very positive towards what we were being taught. There were a few things i did not know about, such as the rule of thirds,  and the color representation. Now when i look at some posters I sometimes think about it using what we have learned, rather than just looking at it and saying "oh it looks good without putting much thought into it.

Attitude towards what we learned, how do i look at things now.

What I used, what i could have used, how i used it.

Create: I used the color representation to emphsize my point, an example is I used blue for caring because it represented honesty, while orange for risk-taker represented confident and adventurous. I used a bit of contrast by making the color of the backround for the text light than the rest. I used a tiny bit of rule of thirds by making the learner profile in the center showing that just that word is nothing while i put the description words around it, although it does not fully use the rules of thirds, it does a bit.

What i could have used is the rule of thirds a bit more accurately. I could have used the rule of proximity to make them spaced out evenly to make it look better.

Rules

Rule of thirds: Power is shown from left to right, top to bottom. Using a 9square grid

Rule of hierachies: objects and people above or in front have greater power

Rule of contrast: Use of darkness and brightness to emphasize objects create mystery, suspense,sense of uncertainty.

Rule of repetition: for emphasizing, reinforcement.

Rule of alignment: Things are aligned with one another

Rule of Proximity: Objects are equally distant from one another

 

I used gradient to make him colorful.

I used to levels to make him darker

cool photoshop

With a picture open, duplicate the layer (as always). Use your lasso tool to roughly select the subject of your image.

Feather the selection by going to Select > Feather (ctrl+alt+d). We want a pretty large feather, so what you input depends on your picture. Try 50 pixels. Go to Layer > New > Layer via copy. You should end up with just your subject on a new layer with a nice feather to it (fades at the edges).

Select the layer copy below your subject layer. Start trying out filters. I used Filter > Brush Strokes > Dark Strokes for this example. Most of the Brush Stroke filters work well with this effect. Using blurs tends to look a little funny. When you’ve got it all done, your layers

palette should look a little like this: