My-Type Assignment

Combining Type and Symbol

This is my image That combines an image and words. I have a "G" with a stop sign witch makes an "O" shape. The stop sign is the compete opposite of the meaning of the words.

Be Positive

I wrote out "Become" in bold and used the rectangle tool to block the white parts of the letters. I then many text books with a white plus sign inside to replace the white parts of the letters.

Flower

I wrote the word "Rose" and the got rid of the "o" and replaced it with the imported picture of a rose.

Yes I am.

I wrote "I'M THE" and put a picture of a boom after it. I change the font. of the words to something cool looking and increased their size.

Chapped

I have a picture of a boom with lipstick on top of it. The meaning is suppose to be lip bomb. See what I did there.

Accurate

I wrote the word "Bullet" in bold. I then used the rectangle tool to make a white space through the letters. Then imported the bullet itself at an end of the word.

Memory

I wrote the word "Forgotten" and just deleted the "o"s and made space.

Type Figures using Adobe InDesign

Tiger

This is my tiger. I used the letter "O" for the outline of the face. The ears are made from"C"s as well as the bottom of the mouth. The eyes are made from the number "0". The nose is a combination of "Y" and "T".

Sleepy

I wrote out "Falling Asleep" and adjusted wee the letters wee on the line so it looks like they are falling.

Fire

I wrote "Lots of Fire" and attempted to make the shape of fire within the words. I drew the shape and made the words separately an then move the words over the text. I used text wrap to place the words around the shape so it could be seen.

Unbelievable

I did a blank ace emoticon and had "Did you really just say that."

Slash

I wrote the words "Cut up" and used the eraser tool to get rid of some of the parts of the letters making it look like its cut up.

Selecting Text in Adobe InDesign

Click and Drag

This allows you to select what ever area you go over while dragging.

1 Click

Selects a spot for the cursor were trying can be done.

2 Clicks

Highlights and word your over.

2 Clicks and Drag

Highlights words you go over while dragging.

3 Clicks

Highlights the line the mouse is over and every thing in it.

3 Clicks and Drag

Highlights a line the mouse is on and any other its dragged over.

4 Clicks

Highlights a paragraph.

4 Clicks and Drag

Highlights a paragraphing any other you drag over.

5 Clicks

Selects everything. Real easy.

Low Quality Raster Logo Reconstruction in Vector Format

Preparation

Place the the paper on the scanner and set the resolution to what you want. The color mode and scale of the image you want to be scanned.

Clean Up in Photoshop

For the clean up I adjusted the levels of the black and white of the image. Then I went and selected the black parts of the images and went over them with the brush tool. I did the same for the white parts and all the grays disappeared. 

Live Trace in Illustrator

For the live trace of the image I found there wasn't much of a difference in the normal ones. The image stayed the same for most of them. 

Logo Reconstruction Using the Pen Tool in Illustrator

For this I used adobe illustrator's pen tool to clean up the edges and make nice curves. I used the elliptical tool to make an oval and fill in for the background to make it yellow.

File Formats

I used the file format of the program I was working on it with to save it.

Advice

Don't skip out on the step and be careful about what you change.