Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

Shapes

This assignment is designed to become familiar with the different kinds of shape tools in Adobe Illustrator. I decided to create an image of a house and the environment that was made up all of the shapes required, and then label them on the photo as well.

Rectangle shape

To achieve this shape, I simply used the Rectangle tool.

Perfect Square shape

In order to create a perfect square, you need to click on the Rectangle Tool, and press down the shift key.

Rounded Rectangle Tool

To achieve this tool, I simply used the Rounded Rectangle Tool.

Elliptical Tool

I used the Ellipse Tool.

Circle Tool

To create a perfect circle, hold down the shift key when using the Ellipse Tool.

Polygon with 6 Sides

To create a polygon with 6 sides, click the Polygon Tool, click anywhere on the document, and an option tab will pop up and you can adjust the number of sides you'd like to have.

Polygon with 3 sides

To create a polygon with 3 sides, click the Polygon Tool, click anywhere on the document, and an option tab will pop up and you can adjust the number of sides you'd like to have.

Star with 5 points

To create a star with 5 points, click the Star Tool, click anywhere on the document, and an option tab will pop up and you can adjust the number of points.

Star with 6 points

To create a star with 6 points, click the Star Tool, click anywhere on the document, and an option tab will pop up and you can adjust the number of points.

Flare Shape

While using the Flare Tool, click on an area in the document and the Flare Tool options will pop up. You will then have the option to adjust the center, the number of rays, the growth (size), and the halo of the flare.

Option Tool

When using any of shapes, by holding down the option key on a selected shape, it creates a duplicate shape.

Vector Self Portrait

This assignment introduced me into the differences of a raster and a vector. First I went into Photo Shop and adjusted the hue and saturation of my self. I then adjusted the levels of the image and saved it as a psd file. I then opened up Adobe Illustrator and placed the photo on a letter page. I used the Image Trace drop box and picked three different types of settings for my picture and saved them as both as an Adobe Illustrator file, and a jpg. After I used the Direct Tool and filled in selected areas of my photo with different colors. Finally I modified the points on the image so that parts of the images look stretched.

• A raster image is an image that has pixels. It can also be called bitmap.

• A vector is an image that has objects and points, not pixels. 

 16 colors: Trace Result with Outline

16 colors: Trace Result

 3 colors: Trace Result

Clone Tool

In Photoshop, there is a tool called the Clone Tool. By holding down the the option key while clicking the desired area you'd like to clone, it selects that part of the image, and your able to put the clone anywhere on the image. The brush sizes are useful in helping you get the appropriate size brush for the item you're cloning. There is also a hardness scale that lets you choose how sharp, or how faded the cloned item is. On the image below, I used the cloning tool to clone my eyes and mouth.

Liquify Filter

In Photoshop, there is a filter called Liquify that allows you to do a number of different effects to an image. There is the Forward Warp Tool which drags a selected area of an image out, but it doesn't change the number of pixels. The Reconstruct tool lets you fix anything that you may have made a mistake. The Pucker Tool pinches a selected area to make it look smaller. The Bloat Tool makes the area selected look abnormally bigger. The Push Left Tool pushes the areas you want to the left side of the image. The Zoom Tool helps you move in and out of the picture. On the photo below,  I used the Forward Warp, Pucker, and Bloat tools.

GIF Colors and Quality

For this assignment, I used the Cutout filter in Photoshop, but instead of saving the image as a jpg, I saved it as a GIF. In terms of Indexed Color, it allows the colors values of an image to have 0 to 256 colors. I have two different images that i selected to have two different color values.

Filter Cutout Gif with 6 colors

File size: 16 KB

The quality of this image isn't great do to only using 6 colors, so it makes a lot of the images details look washed out such as my nose and mouth area. The file size is of this image is small due to the limited amount of colors in the photo

Filter Cutout Gif with 200 colors

File size: 49 KB

The quality of this picture is better than the one above do since there are 200 colors in this image. Since there is more colors, it give the items in this picture more detail such as my nose and mouth. The file size is bigger than the previous photo due to the fact that there is more information (color) in this image.

JPG Compression and File Size

For this assignment, the goal was become exposed to filters in Photoshop. I selected a selfie, put the cutout filter on it, and adjusted the quality of the three different JPGs. The difference between quality and file size is that quality effects the image aesthetics (high or low) in color. File size relates to how much space a file takes.

Quality 100

When making the jpg quality 100, it makes the quality better, even though the quality of jpgs in general are undesired.

File size:  33KB

Quality 60

When changing the jpg quality from 100 to 60, it compresses the image more making the image have less quality.

File size: 33KB

Quality 0

When changing the jpg quality from 60 to 0, you can really see the quality diminish. It has compressed the so much and its clearly visible without even zooming in.


File size: 16KB

Layers and Compositing

Layering and Compositing

The goal of this assignment is to become familiar with layering and compositing in Photoshop. We were to take photos and make the background transparent and composite the image onto a new document. It was a fun assignment to do because I always wanted to learn how to do make a photo transparent, and now that I have this new skill, I can do multiple things with layering and compositing. In this particular photo, there is no specific story behind it other than learning how to layer and getting used to the setting in Photoshop.