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So today I finished up captioning for Barrish and Pinto’s E316 weekly update, and besides that I finished the PSD cutout training. Also, I continued work on both the AI logo and Canvasser trainings.

The Canvasser training is going pretty well so far. I’m enjoying the interactive aspect of it and the user-friendliness. I had a small hiccup where drag objects wouldn’t trigger the conditional true popup even when in the correct position, but Ruben was kind enough to tell me it was because I had the origin set to upper left instead of center. This meant even when in the correct position, the conditional true popup would only be activated when the upper left corner of the draggable object was in the correct position. Bridget has also been really helpful in troubleshooting.

 

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/10/16/35476-2/

Getting started on Sexing History

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Getting started on Sexing History

Poonum and I  got a cool InDesign project this week from Maddy! There’s a former Women’s and Gender Studies postdoc who wants us to lay out his high school lesson plans on the history of gender, sexuality, and sexism. It looks super cool so far! I did a draft of lesson 5, which chronicles sexism in the workplace in the 1950s and ’60s. Reminds me of the document-based questions from high school history.

 

PSD Cutouts

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Basic Training: PSD Cutouts

Megan wrote up a detailed documentation on how to do image cutouts in Photoshop so I followed it and created these cutouts:

 

It was a fun, s

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This week I’ve definitely done a variety of things! I wrapped up the studio graphic training, so here’s the design menu for it.

Next, I started and made significant progress on the AI logo training. I chose a very retro pixelated heart theme with my initials.

Lastly, I finished making my Canvasser game assets and starting exporting and subsequently uploading them to Canvasser.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/10/09/35287-2/

It’s Been a Week

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It’s Been a Week…

Phew! The week caught up with me. This week, I assigned out Poonum and I’s InDesign Part II training, got started with Angie on the new infographic training, uploaded a bunch of photo IDs, gave feedback on the new After Effects training, and (finally) got started on my Canvasser game. I’m making a matching game to learn Spanish personal pronouns with a cute crayon aesthetic.

The infographic training is shaping up to be great! We’re teaching basic graphs and vector graphics in Illustrator, then how to lay out information that’s not necessarily built for a graph, and then how to create a spread of multiple infographics that work together in harmony. Can’t wait to take it!