Well done to all who attended Sundays session. We managed to learn one of the important features that you will use a lot throughout the process of designing and creating the MS Yearbook. Those of you that want to touch up your skills can look at the following tutorials:
How to use the lasso tool in Photoshop.
How to place an image into an Indesign document.
If you need more assistance on these tutorials feel free to ask me in the comment section.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Thoughts on Student Life
What is your thoughts on the graphics or art to use in the student life section as well the little write up?
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Yearbook Color Scheme
We need to come up with a color scheme for the yearbook.
Assignment: Choose 3 primary colors that you think will work well with our yearbook theme and comment on it below.
Consider color. A good design concept will work in black and white or in process color, but adding color helps determine mood.
“When you start incorporating color, it can be lively. It can be relaxing. It can even be obnoxious,” Dunlap said.
Designers need to understand the more conceptual aspects of color, like the way readers respond emotionally to colors and color combinations.
Dunlap is right. Color use helps define personality. If over used or ineffectively used, the power of color becomes a negative force and detracts from the design rather than enhancing it.
Remember the function of design is to draw the reader in and then to guide the reader through the book or the spread in a progressive way.
If color draws attention to itself, then the progress through the story of the year is interrupted or brought to a complete halt. Mixing black and white and color photography adds interest and an extra dimension to a spread.
Explore this website, it is a really good guide to follow when you pick your colors.
Assignment: Choose 3 primary colors that you think will work well with our yearbook theme and comment on it below.
Yearbook Meeting Wednesday
Can you all attend the first meeting on Wednesday 17th Desember in Room 28 during Lunch.
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