Photoshop Projects!

So many new tools!

We recently did four different, yet similar projects in photoshop to get us used to some common tools in Photoshop. We really made use of the clone stamp tool, and magic wand tools, which are some of my favorite tools to use.

 Project 1

Our first project was to crop a picture of our school that was provided to us. After we've cropped it we would then put a semi transparent logo for our school over it, and then an acronym for Olathe NorthWest.

Project 2

our second project was to edit different colors into a monarch butterfly's wings. I chose pastel colors, because I think they're easy on the eyes. After we chose our colors, we used the clone stamp tool to make the butterfly look like its flapping its wings.

Project 3

The third project was to use another pre-provided picture of our school, and this time use the text mask tool to have a selected area that says "Northwest". After we've inverted the selection, we needed to use the gradient tool to make a blue and black gradient around the letters.

 Project 4

The fourth and final project was to make a collage of different areas in our school, and our mascot, the raven. We used the layer mask tool to make the pictures look like they were floating over the school. We also had to use the clone stamp to take out some cars and light poles that looked out of place in the photo.

What did I learn

These projects taught me very basic, yet important and widely used tools in photoshop. These tools are very important to making even the simplest edits in photoshop.

Invasive Species Website

For our web portion of 3rd quarter we made a website which showed the different invasive species across the united states. We were given the pre-written information and logos to put into our website, but the rest was up to us.

Body, with matching color scheme

What's new?

We used Adobe Dreamweaver to create our website. We followed a series of videos in order to learn new ways to make styles in css, and edit html coding. One of the first new things we learned was how to create a header, footer, body, and sidebar.

Sidebar with list of links

Sidebar

One of the main things I want to talk about is the sidebar, since so much went into it. For our sidebar, we learned how to use css and html to make a sidebar with styled links in a list. 

Color Scheme

For the color scheme of the website, I had to find colors that matched. I couldn't just choose a bunch of random colors that I liked, but looked terrible together. The colors have to go with what the website is trying to advertise, and the colors need to belong together.

Much of this was new.

Basically everything I learned to do in the process of creating this website was new to me. I had never learned how to make a footer, header, sidebar or body. I had never learned how to make a stylized list of links. This was almost all new. I did apply some of what I learned last quarter from making my own website, but that had been a while ago, so I had to re-learn some things as well. It wasn't hard; just very new.