New project!

The Texas Politics Project requested a template for their research papers. I was super excited to get this assignment because, well, I’m a huge Texas politics nerd and I used to intern in the legislature. I actually got the internship through the Texas Politics Project’s website!

I started today on the template in Google docs. It’s a bit pesky. Apparently, the way it looks to me on the doc isn’t the way it actually looks, so I have to constantly export PDFs and delete them to check what I’ve actually done. So far, I’ve done everything except adding a couple of more pull quotes and some minor alignment things.

I need to fix this:

But here’s some other sparse screenshots from the doc!

 

Fun with color correction!

Abriella made a great training on color correction and as someone who doesn’t know much of anything about color theory or color balance, it was super helpful. Here are some of my edited photos from the training:

 

Original on right:

This week I worked mostly on photo IDs, color correction training, and wrapped up my Clio training. I’m fairly happy with how my module turned out — it’s basically a survival course on basic German for tourists (because in my humble opinion as an Anglophone traveler it’s quite easy to become complacent and not make an effort to respect different cultures and at least try to use their language, but I digress).

Here’s a couple IDs I did as well.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/09/04/34444-2/

With only two days working this week, I didn’t have quite enough time to achieve anything extraordinary — the biggest thing I’ve worked on is the Clio Part 2 training. Thuy has been wonderful in helping me along the way, and right now one of the things I’m trying to fix is the background; as you can probably see, it repeats, and unless I find a huge high resolution image, I need to find a way to design the background image so even when it’s repeated it looks relatively seamless. In any case, this is what I have so far.

https://sta.laits.utexas.edu/blog/2020/08/28/34264-2/

In Other News…

This week, I also did some photo IDs and gave feedback on a bunch of InDesign trainings. It’s super helpful to see where people tend to struggle or make design mistakes at the moment because I’m about to start help train layout designers at the Daily Texan (wish me luck).

In other news, Angie tells me Dr. Iverson’s class really appreciated the animation (credit goes to her on the scuba diver, though)!