Friday, December 11, 2009

This logo was designed to represent "Electronics." Sinohui is my last name and so I decided to name it "Sinohui Electronics." It took me quite a while to get all the tools controlled and to learn what most of the tools did. Once I learned most of the Photoshop tools, I used them and realized that it wasn't quite that hard to blend and use all of those tools on my logo. I followed another workflow Online, and my logo kind of came out like it, but I think I could have done better, because then I didn't really know what all of those tools he used were located at, and so I tried my best to do what he did. At the end of the logo project I started to find those tools that I couldn't find at the beginning of the project, I couldnt't edit the logo anymore because it was due already, but I know now that if I did it over, it would come out even better.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Work-flow for Christmas Card. By: Jorge Sinohui, Period 1, Computer Art

Open Adobe Photo-shop 7.0, and go to File and click on New and name it Christmas Card.
Make sure it is a CMYK type, and it has to be 8.5 inches by 11 inches.
Then click OK, and then put a color red on the background of the layer.
Create a new layer and download new brushes off the Internet, and they are stars and snow flakes.
To download these brushes you have to save them to your documents and open them in photo-shop.
Go to the brush tool, and go to load brushes and then open the brush there and you will have the stars and snowflakes brushes to use.
After you have the new brushes, go to Brushes which is at the right corner next to File Browser, and make the spacing 300% and then click out of that option and then start stamping the stars or snowflakes onto the layer.
After make a straight line using the Pen Tool, and then put a layer mask and lightly reveal it with the brush tool.
Then put a gold ribbon on top of that line and like the line, add a layer mask on the ribbon, and also lightly reveal it with the brush tool.
Make sure that the ribbon is at the top left corner flipped up-side down because this is going to be a printed flip card.
After create a new layer, and using the text tool type in the words "Happy Holidays" and make the font pretty noticeable and put the color white, and also put a layer mask on it and reveal it lightly with the brush tool.
Place the "Happy Holidays" layer on top of the ribbon. (Remember it has to be upside down.)
Next get a Christmas tag for presents that says "Merry Christmas" or blank if you want to do it hand-written. Put it under the ribbon and the text "Happy Holidays", and this is not upside down.
Add a layer mask to the Christmas tag, and with the brush tool lightly reveal it. and calculate how big it has to be because you don't want it to go over the middle.
If you have a logo for yourself, make sure you put it at the right hand corner of your card, and put it upside down.
Next put a text box at the bottom right hand corner, and make it big enough to not go over the middle, but big enough to write in it.
Using the rectangular tool, make a box, and color it in white, and free transform it to adjust it to the right size you need it.
After all this, you should have your Christmas card done, and ready to give to someone on this special day.