Visual Design Journal by Khademul Mahin

  In this project I first created logos and then I created business cards with them. The objective of the lab was to use the creativity from our minds and create good looking logos that describe us. To do this lab, I used photoshop to create the logos, by using selection tool and a little help from the grid view and used the brush tool to select and color the logos. Afterwards, I used Adobe InDesign to create the business cards. I used 3 different logos with 3 different layouts which resulted in 9 different business cards. To create those business cards I used different font styling and sizes, and different locations to put different information on that is needed for the card. In order to do this project I used the software's:  Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. This project is relevant to web design because it's relevant to design. This project lets your creativity flow, and that's mainly, what design is. If I ever need a business card for a business or any o...

 In lab 7, I used different kinds of filters on the same photo 6 times. The objective of the lab was most likely to see what each kind of filter does to a picture. To do this lab I created 5 copies of the same photo and used 1 different photo on the top right. On each photo I used 6 different types of filters, Artistic, Sketch, Blur, Distort, Liquify, and Diffuse filter. I added clouds in the background and lens flare.   I used a software called Photoshop to complete this lab. This lab is relevant to web design because it shows you what different filters do. But in general, the key thing that I learned is to try different things since it can give you different and sometimes better results. In design, trying new things is important. Sticking to the same thing all the time makes it boring. I will use these skills in the future when I want to apply a certain filter to a certain photo.

 For Lab 6, I used vector shapes to remake a drawing that I have done. Vector shapes can replicate a lot of things in a simpler version, which is shapes. There are a wide variety of vector shapes to choose from to match my needs. I used grass shapes to replicate the grass in my drawing and tree bark texture shapes to color the tree in and outlined it with the line shape. To do the clouds in my drawing, I used the eclipse shape and so on. The objective of this lab was most likely to recreate a drawing but only with shapes. I used Photoshop (a photo editing software) to do this.    This lab is related to web design because it relates to general designing. I used a lot of different shapes to create a drawing. That is directly relating to design in general, and web design requires a lot of designing to do. That is why it is called web design in the first place.I will most likely use these skills when I draw something on paper but i want to improve it digitally.

     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 y...

 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 i...

  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.

    For Lab 3, we copied images of a car and we changed it so it to have different effects. Each one of four had different effects. For example, changed Hue, saturation, replaced color, and black & white. The objective of the lab was most likely to get familiar with the Photoshop software by using effects that is provided by it. So the next time we know what hue, does or what saturation does. Not only do we know what effects are what but we also know how to apply a certain effect on the image. I did this project by using different tools in Photoshop and by using different effects on the car images. The software I used is called Photoshop. This is relevant to web design because it gets you to be more familiar with tools and effects in Photoshop. In web design, Photoshop skills are important because most of the websites are graphics and is what visually appeals to a visitor of the website. In that case getting used to Photoshop or learning Photoshop skills are very im...