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Brochure Indesign

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  When designing this brochure I had encountered many challenges during the process. What I had already envisioned was the color initially being used for the brochure design and the design it self. I wanted it to be simple and merry which is why I chose to use turquoise and use the a thunderbolt for the front cover and back. Then I used the two squares as an additional detail to make the rough seem less bland. It's repetitively used in the page spreads, but it has a turquoise  outline to show a "cut" between the shapes. I had to accommodate to the grid but for the most part it turned out just fine. I used certain colors to portray mood when it came to text as shown in first spread because I had used gold to express this feeling of "Power and Passion" when introducing the remarkable durability that makes the charging cable so special. I mainly stuck with the Bahnschrift font to display a professional and consistent use of type, especially that a sans serif typefa...

Branded Brochure

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Branded Brochure

Brand Type Pairing

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     Many fonts were extremely similar to the univers 65 bold font however these typefaces are similar in their own ways. Calibri shares the similar letter proportion to Univers 65 bold since they are uncondensed, bolded , and tall san serif fonts. Line quality however is more similar to the bahnschrift font which is a sans serif font however the line quality is nearly identical to the univers font, for instance on the apex of the A is longer and flat than the average apex of the A which is usually pointy.Then in terms of historic period, Univers 65 used for "Volta" was invented in the late 1950's precisely 1957 by Adrian Frutiger. The Helvetica typeface was made in 1957  by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann. Both typefaces are neo grotesque classified. Complementary mood for both Agency fb typeface and Universe 65 is that both are neo grotesque making them modern, casual, confident, and Assertive when put together with the Univers typefa...

Retouching Images

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     The Spot healing tool is great for making minor and less notable changes to your images such as removing paint stains on a plain white shirt. The Image from Spiderman 3 before using the spot heal, Spiderman's suit had tears and his skin was exposed which also had scratches as shown below the edited image. The retouched image on top of the original had the suit fixed by mainly using the spot healing tool and some of the clone stamp because the spot healing tool has certain limitations. The Spot healing tool only generates certain textures which is more confined than the stamp tool which allows you to select certain parts of the image to clone. Which is why the webbing seems off-putting from the shoulder until his hands.          The lasso tool when using content aware is an amazing tool to use when removing objects from an image. With the Clone stamp tool, both tools can improve or alter an image tremendously. I used the lasso tool to rem...

Non-Destructive Image Adjustments

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Gradient Gradient adjustment layer was an interesting tool since you can alter the gradients color but it's proximity as well. Originally it was 90 degrees which the gradient started from the left side and moved towards the right and it was the color black. I decided to make the color lighter and completely reflect the position of the gradient by moving it 180 degrees. The end result was the inverse of the original gradient default which I find to be more appealing when the gradient was starting from the right and reaching towards the left. Brightness Using brightness was a simple and yet effective adjustment layer. It can really improve an image as shown here when I lowered the brightness to make the image seem slightly more dim and but less reflective of the light. I found the original image too bright which is why I choose to darken the image so we see more of the colors of the magazine less intrusive light. In retrospect I still believe I made the correct choice in darkening th...

Masks Layers

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      Using masks requires a lot of effort and attention to detail. The objects I chose were at random and have no sort of deep meaning or context. However the backgrounds in all 3 compositions do have context behind them. For composition I decided to use my black pen and then duplicate it to 6 times but put a looseleaf paper as the background since it makes sense to have a writing utensil with paper since that's what a writing utensil is for, to write on paper. Then for Composition 2 was a peculiar yet rational and completely understandable, I masked the clorox wipes and hand sanitizer , then faded the clorox wipes it to reveal the hand sanitizer dispenser. The background chosen was bubbles and blue water since I am using two sanitation products which are clorox wipes and hand sanitizer so using a background that has a "clean/sanitation" promoting look just seemed fitting to me. Then for composition 3 I kept the background image of the desk since it fits with the mo...

Robot Final

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Once I Knew the theme of my robot which is cars and auto repair, It was quite easy to find the suitable background  to place my robot in which would be an auto/car repair shop. However I had to decide whether it would be inside the shop or outside however I choose outside the shop because It would be much easier to see how the shadows are casted in natural light as seen on the left picture with the cars outside the shop. Afterwards I had to scale my robot to be smaller to make him a more realistic when brought to life since it wouldn't make any sense for the robot to be larger than the auto repair shop. Using Fx drop shadows and the blur gallery in the filter menu were essential tools in making my robot actually look real and fit in the image. Before working on casting shadows I had to make my robot to look 3d I had to work on contrapposto which essentially means "asymmetrical" in Italian. Moving his left leg ( from our view it would be the right) and using a different ti...