STA Blog

Week 4/19 – 4/26

By

UTFC Reverse Image Search

Project: Reverse Image Searching
Notes: As I have some downtime this week, I moved onto a PPT I’ve done in the past to see how that image sourcing goes. So far for the UTFC project we need to find images that we’ve used in the past for image crediting. The main goal of these assignments was to get a feel for how time-consuming they will be & start making a case for alternatives like purchasing photos, etc. I ended up finding 20+ images for each module and formatting the links into the table below.

 

UTFC Greenscreen Edits

Project: Greenscreen Image Sourcing
Due On: April 20th
Notes: A handful of STAs were tasked with finding royalty-free images and uploading them into a PowerPoint. As a team, our responsibility is to insert the correct copyright info into a Spreadsheet our Art Director, Maddy, had made. Overall, I found the process therapeutic and gives a means to paying attention to detail when finding images. As a newer update, I finished this module, meaning I found 24 images for the PowerPoint!

 

UTFC Studio Testing

Project: Backdrop Color Testing
Notes: Since UTFC plans on recording its lectures this summer, I had the opportunity to go inside the recording studio to test backdrops for the lecturer. It was a cool and fun moment to get a hands-on experience with the other side of this assignment! I could see the backdrops in real time and edit them to the correct display such as altering contrast and saturation inside Photoshop. This time around, another STA, Marissa Devivar was the model and I edited!

2023 Commencement Livestream Slide Card

By

2023 Commencement Livestream Slide Card

Start: April 25th, 2023

To be Completed: May 1st

Client: University Commencement

Staff Guidance: Maddy

Description: Two title cards that show on the graduation side for livestream.

Version 1:

  • White/Burnt Orange Commencement Logo
  • Optional Texas logo at the top
  • Two burnt orange bar on the top and button
  • Department Logo

Version 2:

UTFC Backdrop

By

UTFC Backdrop

Start: April 20th, 2023

To be Completed: N/A

Client: UTFC

Staff Guidance: Maddy

Description: Search backdrop photos for those would work in landscape 16:9 ratio in selected platforms.

These backdrops can be used as the background of the lecture to showcase the features/landscape/landmarks of the cities. We need to find photos that works well with the person in the middle so I got the change to go to the studio and take the pictures with the “professor”.

Example Photos:

 

Submission:

Week 25

By

AI in Healthcare Course Graphics

Client/Prof: Department of Computer Science, Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Completion Status: Started on April 5
Staff Guidance: Maddy
Complete by: May 1

Still working on the new AI in Healthcare online course, which will be available through edX. This course will teach the positives of using AI technology in healthcare to reduce human error and make doctors more successful and efficient in their work. This last week I’ve mostly been working on the logo and animation:

 

And I’ve made the following animations that we’re going back and forth on:

 

Additionally, I also cranked out some of the other course assets:

And here are all the assets together on a design menu:

Week LXXII

By

Week LXXII

French Textbook

I think this might be the main thing I worked on all week. Of course, there was a lot of the photo sourcing spreadsheets that were featured on other people’s blogs. But I got to do something else this week – photo editing.

2.4 & 2.5

So, calendars… that’s something that’s hard to come by on stock photo sites. Or at least, most of them look like this:

Not the most readable example for a vocab lesson. The old lesson used screenshots of proprietary calendar softwares, so my job was to make replacements. I started with these 3 photos.

They had a few issues still. The English labeling, mostly, the lack of Saturdays for one, and the branch blocking the other.

For some variants, I actually had to edit the days of the month.

The year calendar was the easiest edit, just using clone stamp. The month names were already in boxes in the PPT file, and the weekday abbreviations from Spanish are the same as French.

This one wasn’t for a specific date, and could have been any calendar photo, but I liked it enough to edit in the proper names and a whole new column from scratch.

5.1

Remember the Beirut slides? I might have covered them on here. Well, a lot came from Wikimedia and need to be replaced. About half. Exactly 12/25 actually, which I know because I made a new tracking sheet just for these city image slides:

It looks like someone’s already added their own tabs to it.

UTFC Image Sourcing

By

UTFC Greenscreen Image Sourcing

Module 3.4 Physical Attributes

Project: UTFC Greenscreens
Client /Prof: Internal
Completion Status: Started Apr 3
Staff Guidance: Maddy/Valerie
Description: Sourcing images for use in UTFC classes
To be completed: June 1

For this module, I was tasked with a different sourcing challenge: finding public domain images of French art that fit the vocabulary for the lesson. Maddy gave me a few starting points in the Met Museum and the US National Gallery collections. From there, I searched images that exemplified the vocabulary words. Many of the words involved hair color or facial features, so it was interesting to look for certain features in the paintings and sculptures (blond hair was particularly difficult to find!). I also found that certain databases had better metadata than others because I could search with vague descriptors (such as blond hair) and relevant images would appear. With the National Gallery’s database, I either had to know the name of the specific artist or a keyword in the title of the piece. Needless to say, I ended up finding most of the images in the Met Museum’s collections.

From sourcing…

 

To cataloging…

 

To the final Powerpoint!