Visual Design Journal by Khademul Mahin

     In lab 5, I used brushes to recreate a drawing. The objective of the lab was to recreate a drawing that I have already made but with brushes and colors. Another objective might be to test our creativity.For example, how we can think of different brush types to represent the texture of objects from our drawing. I did this lab by recreating my drawing in Photoshop with different sized brushes to match my drawing, different colored brushes to represent the color of the object in the drawing, and different types of brushes to emphasize on the texture of the object in the drawing.      This lab required Photoshop, which is a photo editing software. Lab 5 is relevant to web design because it teaches you to be more creative, and I think in the field of web design, creativity is very important. With creativity, you can do a lot of things that other people couldn't do, and it would not only amaze them but also be very useful sometimes, depending on where you use your creativity. I

 For project 2, I researched for pictures that relate to Bill Gates, who is the subject of my project. Using those pictures, I made a collage that maintained the shape of Bill Gates, with pictures that are relevant to his life. That was for the collage. For the cutout I wrote a sentence that describes Bill Gates. The sentence repeated itself around the edge of the shape of Bill Gates in a portrait of him. The objective of the lab was to mainly work on creativity. For example, how we created the collage that maintained the someones portrait, not many people would think of that or may struggle while making it real in Photoshop.   To do this project I used tools such as Type tool, Quick Selection Tool, and  Mask tool. This time, we used the Type tool in a different way which is to make the text go around the shape of the subjects facial shape. In order to do this project I used Photoshop.This is relevant to web design because it basically works on creativity which is crucial in w

  In Lab 4, I basically created a collage like thing with a few pictures. The objective of the lab was most likely to explore and learn more about photography. For example, what makes a picture look good and what makes it look bad and how to improve on it etc. We took pictures at high points of view,  Low points of view, eye level, close up etc. Later on we put those pictures together to kind of make a collage.   To complete Lab 4, I used a software called Photoshop. Photoshop lets you manipulate pictures and lets you do a lot with just one picture. This is relevant to web design because it lets you become a photographer temporarily and it lets you see what looks good and what looks bad. You gain more experience with photos which most web designers are. These skills can be used to edit photos in the future.