SCANNING SLIDES

The past couple days I have worked on scanning slides for a professor and trained Kevin/Jalissa with setting up and scanning the slides with the appropriate settings. When working on the slides I had to put together an instruction sheet to upload to the knowledge base so other people can use it for reference when finishing a basic training or working for a professor. The scanner we have in the office is very slow which made the process time consuming but Jalissa helped with finishing up half of them and helped me out a lot.

Project: Life & Letters Stress Tips Illustrations and GIF

Client /Prof: Michelle A Bryant – Associate Director for Public Affairs

Completion status: Started September 16, 2019

Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson and Valerie Tran

STA team members: Thuy Nguyen and Abriella Corker

Description/plans: Design a photo collage illustration for sections of the Stress Tips article that will be published in the Life & Letters College of the Liberal Arts Magazine. My role is come up with concept, design template, source content for image, client communication, and drafts. Thuy refined the images and communicated with me on drafts and style choices.

To be completed: September 30, 2019

GIF FRAMES IDEA

This looks really messy and unclear but it is the beginning of something great! I hope. I need to turn an image into a GIF with moving parts. Many elements of the image need to move simultaneously with each other and it could be easy to lose track of how that is suppose to work. When making a GIF frame by frames of still images need to be uploaded so each frame needs a partial change. I used very simple images to determine more or less what I want to have changed in each frame. Right now there is only six but I might add more in-between as I progress through this and see that maybe changes need more half steps and smoother transitions.

FLOWCHARTS

I have been at work at some flow charts for a professor’s video. The one that was currently used was not popping enough in color and every part of flow chart was treated the same visually. With these things in mind I decided to integrate the color palette from other slides in the video into the flow chart and change the value of each box so that there is a clearer hierarchy of content presented. 

KB INSTRUCTIONS: SLIDE SCANNING INSTRUCTIONS

I was able to kill multiple birds with one stone working on scanning for a professor. There are about 200 slides to scan one-by-one so the task was taught to Kevin so he can teach Jalisa. Divide and conquer! Now all three of us can cross off this basic training in our Basecamp. Since Suloni eventually wants all the Basic Trainings uploaded to the Knowledge Base I added this one since the instructions for it are scattered across our different platforms. It was fairly quick to put together but I think this will still need more refining as time goes on as with all things. Its been busy!

BASIC TRAINING: Ai LOGO DESIGN

This one I held out on for a while while finishing a lot of the photoshop basic trainings first. Learning photoshop was of more immediate concern since it is used a lot for projects that I was assigned since starting to work here. This logo was a bit tedious for meet to put together on Ai since I am not at all familiar with the tools on it. This is what I managed to come up with within the restrictions of the practice. The “A” and “C” are the initials for my name and in the center is an atlas beetle. I really enjoy how to pink and red came out as well as the inverted black and white. I also made a favicon for this logo but it is very small so I did upload it to this post. It is just a small 16 x 16 pixel icon for a beetle in black with a white background.