Final Project

11 x 17 Poster

5 x 7 Announcement

6 x 4 Postcard

These are the finished pieces of my final project. My idea was to create a project that was connected to my education. The end result is a poster indicating when I will be finished with school, and an announcement and postcard designed for when I complete my Bachelor's degree next year. My target audience for this project is family and friends, so I really wanted to show some of my creative side, by creating a design that is reflective of my personality. The finished project is the culmination of three cohesive pieces.

I used Illustrator and Photoshop for this project, and many, many tools in each one, switching back and forth between them. In an effort to maintain ethical standards, I drew the tree and owl myself, and created the gradient. The only piece of this project I took from another source was the font, but I was sure to check the permissions on it first and it was free and usable in any format. Overall, I am quite pleased with this project.  It pushed me farther than any other project has so far, and I have gained quite a bit of knowledge in both programs, but particularly Illustrator. I had not used it before this class, and now know my way around it.

Tools and features I used for this project:

Photoshop: move, selection, brush, eraser, gradient, brightness/contrast filter, paint bucket, scale, magic wand, quick selection, image size

Illustrator: selection, magic wand, text, line segment, pencil, blob brush, eraser, gradient, eye dropper, pathfinder-exclude, live trace, expand, live paint, reflect, create outlines, scale