Katie Kopecky's Digital Media Blog

 For this assignment we had to take our black and white logo we created, turn it into a tag brush, and then create an image out of the brush. Here is my black and white logo. Here is my tag brush. Here is the image I created using my tag brush. For the image I created using my tag brush I went off of my actual logo. My image using the green color with my tag I tried to create mountains like that were in my logo. The mountains in this image have the white caps like my logo that's why they aren't pointy. Then there are the blue tags which represent the clouds. Lastly the singular yellow tag is the sun. I think that the image I have created could have been better however I think it was a good use if my tag and has meaning connecting it to my logo. I did not like this assignment however because it was not very interesting. 

 This project was very time consuming for me. Below you will find my original photo, b&w conversion, and three color versions I have created. For this project I chose a simple selfie, but one that had some accent accessories in it that I knew would make for a better edit and bring interest to the piece. For the first colored image I chose to do monochromatic with the reds. I made this choice because with the Minnie Mouse ears, the bow being red, I thought it was a simple choice to make that actually made sense for the original image. The second colored photo I started with my favorite color pastel yellow and from there chose the best color scheme which in my opinion was split complementary. For the last image I did a double complementary scheme which had many different colors in it which I liked them all together. Choosing each different scheme was fun and made the project more interesting, I like using the adobe color swatches better than just choosing random colors on photosh...

 For this assignment I am going to be reviewing three Photoshop tutorials that I watched. This tutorial was all about changing the color of anything in PhotoShop. It requires a hue saturation adjustment layer which allows for the easy color change. By using the 'master' drop down it will change all the colors in the image. If you want to change a specific color in the image use the eyedropper tool to select the color on the image then by sliding on the hue bar you are then able to change to the desired color for that part of the image. I think that this tool will be very useful when I am creating my projects. I think a big part of PhotoShop is altering images to make them different from how they started and changing colors is a big aspect of that.  This tutorial focused on cropping, resizing and adding more space. The crop tool can be found on the tool bar or accessed by hitting 'c' on the keyboard. At the top of the screen you can find the ratio button with drop down o...

For this project I decided to create a propaganda poster for climate change. Below is my poster. For this project we had to include a self portrait aspect, here is the photo I used to base off my portrait. I began by collecting some inspiration photos, here they are. When the assignment was first assigned to us I immediately thought of climate change as something that I wanted to create my propaganda poster about. Climate change, the environment, and global warming are very important aspects to me. I believe that if we continue on with the way the world operates that there really will be nothing of livable conditions for us to survive on in the future. I have watched countless documentaries and environmental shows that show how the earth has changed, how it will change, and what can be done about this problem. It is something I am very passionate about. When creating my self portrait aspect of the project I wasn't really sure how to include it on my poster but to me it signifies ho...

 To start off this project I chose five words that described myself and created moldboards for each word.        After creating the five moldboards I went on to create 5x5 rough draft logo sketches for each. After creating all the sketches I chose one logo and took to illustrator to create b&w and color versions. The color versions are my final completed versions of my logo.  When starting this project and choosing words to describe myself I feel as though with some of the words I could've chosen better words for the final part being needing to create a logo for it. The words I chose besides adventurous were very hard for me to figure out what to draw for the logo and I honestly did not like any of those drawings. From the start I knew I would end up chasing adventurous because I had this logo idea from the start. I enjoyed this assignment because it was very creative and I had freedom to create whatever I chose to. I really like working in Illustrator ...

  For my project I have created a beach island scene. The image includes waves, an island, a palm tree, and the sun! I thoroughly enjoyed doing this project, it made sense to me and I wasn't constantly struggling. I liked that for the words to create the calligram we had to write a letter to our future selves in twenty years. I think that this made the project more meaningful then just using random words and sentences to create the images. For me I chose to do a beach scene because I grew up boating and going to the beach all the time, so for me the ocean and beach actually hold meaning and a lot of memories. For me in the future it ties in because I want to be close with friends and family that I grew up with and met along the way in life. These people if in my life will spend time at the beach with me and create memories there so that is another reason I chose the beach. A tool that I used a lot to create my project was the pen tool. I started creating my image mostly using the p...