STA Blog

LAITS Student Technology Assistants collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts faculty and administration by re-imagining their instructional and promotional projects with a creative use of video, audio, web and graphic design. STAs learn technical skills on the job with LAITS development studio staff. They build presentations, produce audio/visual works, scan text documents & perform image correction. STAs are instrumental in helping COLA faculty realize their vision for instructional technology projects used to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

More Tutorials!

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More Tutorials!

8-Bit Gif Tutorial & Color Wheel Tutorial

Color Correction Tutorial

I ran into trouble with the image of the swan painting. Since the painting was so yellow, I had difficultly in trying to determine the original colors of the painting to use as an end goal. I wound up referencing the example “After” image and used those colors as reference. The adjustment tools I used for this tutorial include: Brightness and Contrast, Exposure and Gamma, Hue/Saturation, and Curves.

 

 

Reminder to self: I need to update image attributes.

9/28/16

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Today I worked on more for the CC 303 online textbook. I organized images and added them to the text along with their titles and details.

Logo Tutorial Redesign

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Logo Tutorial Redesign

I redesigned the template for the symmetrical logo tutorial. I used illustrator to create a horizontally symmetrical badge. The color version of the logo was limited to a max of 3 colors. Suloni also requested to see the B&W logo on a black background. I created two versions of this: one with the original B&W logo on a black background and one where I inverted the B&W logo on a black background.

 

 

Previous Drafts

 

For the sunset logo, I originally thought to create a camping or nature badge, something like what a boy scout would receive. After I created the 3-step gradient semi-circle, I didn’t know what I could add to it without surpassing the 3-color limit. I ended up discarding this draft after running into creators’ block. The Texas logo was one of the first logos I created. I wanted to use the word STA for the STA training template and noticed that you can spell Texas with STA. I also noticed that X was both horizontally and vertically symmetrical (and diagonally symmetrical, though that depends on the font), so I decided to use the X as the main feature in my symmetrical logo. Then I inserted the letters in the spaces of the “X”. I wanted to make “STA” stand out so I used a different color for those letters. I realize that the logo isn’t truly symmetrical because of the letters, but it loosely adheres to a horizontal and vertical symmetry.

Triangles Beyond History

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I authored WordPress pages from scratch from the former Texas Beyond History site to the new WordPress Texas Beyond History.screen-shot-2016-09-27-at-10-41-39-am

Each of the triangles in the map has a page associated with it that were skipped during the initial import of the website into WordPress. As a result we had to hand import each of the pages and their content into the new WordPress site.