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Tonight's assignment was to create the cover of a magazine related to our respective fields of study. Technically, holiday decor falls under Interior Design.




Yes, it's busy. The instructor wants to see specific bells and whistles. So I put in bells and whistles even when it makes my teeth ache. But it's still fun.

Oh, yeah. I'm going to like art school. =)

Date: 2009-11-04 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strawberrykaren.livejournal.com
The transparent effect for the "slime" starburst is neat -- do you know how to do gradients yet? (Did the instructor say anything about drop shadows? I find that they're a useful effect, especially when you've got two colors of roughly the same lightness or darkness.) :-)

Date: 2009-11-04 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
Thanks! I didn't like the solid starburst and dropped the opacity on it. (Although I may have jumped ahead to Thursday's assignment by using a shape. Hm.) Gradients are also included with Thursday's assignment. And yep, I've got a couple of drop shadows in there behind the title and the date. They're very faint.

Date: 2009-11-04 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caemfind.livejournal.com
I'd subscribe!

Date: 2009-11-04 03:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-11-04 12:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chargirlgenius.livejournal.com
You so rock. How many magazines correctly use a semi-colon? :-D

Date: 2009-11-04 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
Thank you! I'm kind of addicted to semi-colons. :)

Love it , one subscription please

Date: 2009-11-04 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psalite.livejournal.com
That sooo coool!!! .
Hmm maybe I need to go to design school too :)

Re: Love it , one subscription please

Date: 2009-11-04 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
Thanks! And the crazy part is this is just the introductory computer class. Heh.

Re: Love it , one subscription please

Date: 2009-11-04 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psalite.livejournal.com
I am really thinking about picking up illustrator and learning it in conjunction with photoshop.Fairfax ACE has classes on it too so I could still qualify for journey ed.

Re: Love it , one subscription please

Date: 2009-11-04 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
You're welcome to borrow my CS4 Illustrator book, if you'd like. Adobe.com and ndesign.com both have very good tutorials as well.

Date: 2009-11-04 02:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sskipstress.livejournal.com
I love Illustrator. It's what I was using when I only half-finished striping your tent before work got hellish earlier this year. Back in the day, Adobe had some great Illustrator tutorials and fortunately they haven't changed the way the tools work since then.

Date: 2009-11-04 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com
Oh yeah, the Adobe tutorials are great!

Date: 2009-11-04 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belfebe.livejournal.com
That's awesome!

Date: 2009-11-04 06:23 pm (UTC)

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