Previous Projects I Have Accomplished

Previous Projects I have done while I was in school and at home.

Business Cards I designed. One was for my photography business and the other was for my dads concrete and painting business.

Designed Note Pad

Page I did using Illustrator in graphic design class.

Created a St. Patrick's Day Postcard Special for Customers

Newspaper Ad from a school project

Photo I had taken when I went to Pittsburg State University

Magazine Ad/Poster for my Photography Business

Graduation Card I designed.

Billboard Example if I would have the money to actually do it.

My website for my photography page is www.facebook.com/jpsaundersphotography

Here are a few of my favorite pictures I have taken.

The last picture is of my mom and it was just being funny because its the kind of people that we are. I have also done some product photography as well. It's all on my web page be sure to check it out. Thanks.

Summary of Class

When I first started this class, I honestly hated it. It was so rough getting the first two month of blogs done because they took so long, but after that things in the class got so much better because we started doing more projects and the blogs took even less time to do. My favorite projects I would say was the variable data project because I had never attempted to make a post card before and I thought it was really neat and will probably use it again for my business sometime in the near future. I also liked designing the newspaper ad because it was nice trying something new for a fake business and seeing if it would work to be distributed. I think that's one great aspect I enjoyed was how much free will we had when designing projects because there was no limit on how little or much we could do. Having a class that has a set schedule was greatly appreciated as well because I always liked to know whats going on and when assignments are due. Overall this class was very beneficial and I am glad I decided to choose graphic design as my minor compared to something else or I wouldn't have known how to combine all the Adobe programs together in InDesign. I also would like to say thanks for all the help I got from you (our teacher) because with all the graphic design classes that I have taken, I would say you taught and helped me more than any other staff member in the department.

Lawsuit Summary Post

Lawsuit Summary Post

Copyright protects everything and lasts the length of the author's life plus 70 years after that. According to the Copyright website, "Copyright is a form of intellectual property law designed to protect authors of creative work from unauthorized reproduction, copying, and selling. It gives authors the ability to license and transfer their works to other parties so that they may legally reproduce, copy, and sell the product under contractual settings." Infringement of copyright is when someone steals copyrighted work and calls it their own.

If not everyone knows, a couple years ago Limewire went to court for copyright infringement of music. Everyone thought or still thinks that this case was settled among 30 and more music publishers. According to this Technology blog website, "Limewire is still facing a lawsuit brought by 13 record companies, including Atlantic, Elektra, Interscope, Motown, Sony BMG, Virgin, and Warner Brothers, which is set for trial in May." Limewire if you don't know is a place you go to download music for free and it allowed free file sharing among its members that anyone could upload a song from somewhere else then it could be downloaded by anyone, which is why this is copyright infringement. Because of this, the record labels have had $1 million in damage. Limewire is still seeking to prove that the damage claims are wrong and exaggerated. I will post below from Google of what the logo from Limewire looks like in case you didn't know. All the information I retrieved this from was from the Copyright website and the IP and Technology blog.

Limewire Logo image from Google

Adobe Tutorial # 5

Making Eyes Brighter or Stand out in Adobe Photoshop CS5


The last Adobe Tutorial I am going to explain how to do is how to make eyes brighter in a picture. There are other various ways how to do it but this is one of the ways I like to do it the best and will number off the steps for this one since it can be a little complex. I got this tutorial and learned it from this YouTube video.

Steps

1. Open a portrait picture, where you can edit the eyes of a person.

2. The next step is to duplicate the background layer.

3. You then click the Dodge Tool, which is on the left side of the screen.

4. After clicking the Dodge Tool, you then go up at the top of the screen and go to range and scroll down to highlights.

5.Then in the percentage you will type 50% to make sure the eyes look brighter when you start highlighting them.

6. You zoom into the eyes on the photo.

7. You then use the dodge tool to go around the middle of each of the eyes.

8. After this you can either leave it or bring the opacity down to make the eyes look a tad more normal.

9. After you have it the way you like then you can go to Layer > Flatten Image

10. The very last step is to Save As JPG then you are officially done and just learned how to brighten the eyes on a portrait picture.

I know this isn't one of the best photos I have taken of my niece but It showed her eyes the best and you can see my original picture and then the one where her eyes are brighter and can tell the difference. I forgot to mention as well, that you can actually use the Dodge Tool to brighten teeth as well.

Original Image

Final Image, with a little vibrance that I added to it so she didn't look so white.

Final Project for the Class!

I decided to do a design a graduation card for my final project. My purpose is get my family and friends to come to my graduation on May 12, 2012 at 11 a.m and tell them they are invited to the graduation. There will be three colors used because of the Pittsburg State University colors,which are crimson and gold, and the card will be black with white lettering or font. The target audience is my family and friends from all over to come and celebrate me graduating. The call to action is giving them the location of where the graduation is being held and to inform them that I am graduating this May. The bleed is .125 inches. The margins are .25 inches. The whole sheet or trim size is 10 inches wide by 7 inches high. It will be printed on card stock paper. The live area on each page will be 5 x 7 inches. I did do a folding dummy. I just scanned the front and back of each rough from both outside and inside of the card then uploaded it on here. I had it printed on 80# paper at Quick Print. From the Master Image Checklist, I used a reverse and a clipping path. If I were to print 500 invitations, it would cost me $240.37 according to Quick Print. It cost me $7.67 to print four copies of my invitation. The image of me is actually copyrighted by me because I took it. The texture I used is copyrighted from the Lost and Taken website on the PSU Graphics Blog. Final Images posted toward bottom of the blog.

5 Thumbs for Graduation Card

Front of First Rough Draft

Inside of First Rough Draft

 Front of Rough Draft # 2

Inside of Rough Draft # 2

Back Side and Front Side of Card

Inside of the Graduation Card

Adobe Tutorial #4

Adding to convert an image to Neon Glow in Adobe Photoshop CS5

The first step to do this is open the picture you want to do this too, which I suggest you pick a scenery picture because if you do it with a portrait of a person, it will look kind of odd. I chose my night picture when I converted it to Neon Glow. The next step after opening your picture is to go to Filter (at the top of the screen) > Artistic > then click Neon Glow. After this you can change the color from blue to any color you want. You can also adjust the glow size and the glow brightness so you can let it shine more if you would like too. The last couple of steps after doing this is to press OK then you just go to File > Save As then you save it as a JPG then that's it you are done and just converted an image to Neon Glow. I didn't get this from any website. I just learned it on my own by messing around with Adobe Photoshop CS5. There are also many more artistic aspects you can do as well when you look through them. All these images are copyrighted under me as well.

Original Image

Neon Glow Image

Job Search Analysis: Position 3

I know this is not due til May 1, but I just wanted to get it out the way and over with. The third job posting I found and also applied for, even though it has nothing to do with my major is being a supervisor for Best Buy in Lincoln, Nebraska. I actually would not be mad if I got a job selling cameras or other electronics and doing my photography business on the side. The supervisor sales jobs' basic requirements are having one year retail sales experience, which I have from working at Wal-Mart back near home for about two years. The other requirements are having to lift 50 lbs, being at least 18 years of age, and having a High School Diploma. I meet all those requirements and you also get a 10% off all electronic items for working there, which is my favorite thing about this position. The key responsibilities for this job are to partner with store management to deliver day to day coaching and training to employees to ensure quality execution of store processes and strategies, ensure sales zones are merchandised according to company SOP, and to create an innovative environment where employees are inspired to provide customer solutions across the store and share ideas regarding new ways to do business, gain new customers, improve processes, and create a more efficient enterprise. I looked up the salary on another site and it said this position makes a salary of $31,000 to $45,000. I feel like I could do this job and would be good at it. I am a very easy person to get along with and with being a communication major I have learned so much that would help me in a job like this. I also don't need to know any basic software according to the posting. I got this job posting from Glassdoor.com. You can also get the basic requirements of this job at Best Buy website. If you click on either web link, it should take you to the job site.