Since I’m allergic to cats, I’m stuck with pixel cats.

Round 2

Flyer:

Marquee image:

Imagery for screens in the SAC

 

Round 1

Flyer:

Marquee image (the dimensions given for the larger marquee home image were the same as the event marquee)

Imagery for the screens in the SAC

I was given a set of IDs to process and in that set, this picture came up.

The background needed a bit of cleaning to make the image look more professional overall. I mainly used refine edge to select just the person, and then inverted it to select the background. I filled the background with a color that was in the original image. I also had to go in with a tiny eraser to make sure there weren’t leftover parts that were missed.

 

 

 

 

As part of the STA training, I made a live trace of a panda as well as a series of shapes to learn more about shape manipulation. The panda live trace turned out okay, but it didn’t have as many details as the example simply because fur has less details than feathers.

After doing the shape manipulation, I realized that I want to learn more about the pathfinder function in Illustrator since it seems like it could be very powerful depending on how skilled the user is. It’ll also keep me from doing sketchy methods to try to fix a shape.

 

After a bit of confusion, I was put on the task of transferring all the text and images from the old TBH site that opened when a triangle was clicked on the map for South Texas Plains to the new site. I had to insert every image individually which got a bit tedious. Also, since WordPress doesn’t show the correct formatting/spacing in the editor, every time I inserted a picture, I had to preview the update to be able to determine where to insert the next picture so that the spacing wouldn’t get messed up. From this, I mostly learned about the ‘inspect’ function.

As part of my training, I followed a tutorial on how to illustrate a potted plant digitally. To make it my own, I added a snoozing cat into the picture. I’m not completely pleased with the shading on the cat because I don’t have the best grasp on lighting/shadows. But yay (slightly floating) kitty!