Redieat Abebe (FMZ-210-1 Cohort A)

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Business Cards

Front Back Front Back Front Back The idea for this project was to make 3 unique personal business cards that incorporated my personal logo and the color palettes from my logo project. I made my cards using the Indesign software where I made a 3.5 by 2-inch document with 0.25-inch margins and an 0.125-inch bleed. The main tools I used are the pen and type tool. I used the pen tool to make the designs on the back of my cards and the type tool to print my name and a contact info section. I inserted the mail, location, and phone icons from transparent images I found online. The front of my first card has my name written in a font called Remedy OT. I got the font from Adobe fonts and I chose it because I liked the fun and whimsical look it gave my card. I made the font the same color as the shirt in my logo and added a white stroke so that it matched my lo

InDesign Tutorials

Tutorial #1 This video was very helpful because it provided different tips and techniques you can use within InDesign. I like this video because you are able to learn ways to navigate the software easier. The tip I thought would easy to use was adding a drop shadow to a shape. I think that would be useful to make images look 3-D and realistic. What I found interesting about the video is the tip on how to disable auto-hyphenation. That will be nice to know when working with text and wanting your letters to be on the same line without hyphens. Tutorial #2 This tutorial was a short video on how to wrap text around a shape or picture. The video was simple and easy to follow and the man explained how to use the technique/tool well. This video caught my attention because I liked the effect of wrapping text around an image. It reminded me of the calligram project we worked on. I think I will use this when I making my portfolio and needing to make certain headings or paragraphs wr

Somewhere

The basic idea of this project was to photoshop yourself into a tv or movie scene. I decided to insert myself with the female cast of the tv show Euphoria. This is one of my favorite shows from last year because the characters are so complex and realistic. I think it's quite hard to capture teenage characters, but this show does a good job of accomplishing that. Therefore, I took a picture of myself in a red dress and added myself to the bottom right corner. The first thing I did was mask myself out and position myself so that my elbow was leaning on the table. I then added a few adjustment layers so that I blended better into the picture. I also put a glow filter on myself to match the bright highlights found on the other people. I then added horns so that I could look like I was wearing a devil costume. I tried to blend the horns by stamping my skin around the edge of where the horn meets my skin. I then added my reflection on the table by creating a duplicate of my mas

Pre-Somewhere Homework

Kirby Jenner: I think this photo would be really hard to photoshop yourself into because it has very bright lighting. It would hard to match the shadows and highlights found on the original picture. The position also looks hard to pull off. Average Rob: This image gave me the idea to photoshop myself into a picture of a group of successful women that I admire. The picture I chose is of the female cast from the t.v show Euphoria. Photoshop troll: I found this photo to be funny and also quite skillfully made. It must have taken a lot of precision and time to get the husband's body off of the wife's. The reality behind photos: I think this would a cool illusion to experiment with. It also gives you a lot to play with because you can project anything on to the background.

Autoscopy

I created this image mainly using masking and adjustment layers on Photoshop. The main idea of the project was to take a photo of yourself and transform it into something you never knew of yourselves. The waterfall, sunflowers, brick wall, and water jug images came from unsplash.com. The two space images came from the NASA website. My composition communicates growth despite a bad environment, which is something I learned about myself this year. I first started by creating a mask of sunflowers and putting them on my head as if they were growing out of it. I then used the displace filter and "multiply" blending style to mask the brick texture onto my face. Most of the images have an adjustment layer on them so that the colors are more vibrant and brighter. The two space images were taken near my birth date from the Hubble Telescope. I added them to my composition as symbols of myself and to give a fantasy feel to the image. I added a water jug in the left co

BW to Color

Square Analogous Complementary I created these images using the polygonal lasso tool and masking on Photoshop. The basic idea of the project was to turn a black and white image of yourself into a colorized version. The three color themes I chose are Analogous, Complementary, and Square. The technique that made these images possible was selecting different parts of the b&w image using the lasso tool and creating a new layer with a layer mask. After creating the layer mask you can create a new layer and color the area using the colors from your color palette. I chose the warm-toned analogous color palette because my original photo was mostly warm-toned. Therefore, I wanted to see if I could incorporate that into the image but make it more stylistic. I then decided I wanted more contrast for my next one so I chose a complementary color palette. The pink and green really stood out from each other and made my image pop. The last palette was made using square co